The Scientific Method

This summer I published my first novel, The Scientific Method (a Wandering Koala tale). It is currently available in Paperback from Amazon.com, and electronically for the Kindle, Barnes & Noble eReader, and soon will be available for the Sony eReader.

It's a science fiction novel written at a Jr. High level, because that's when I loved reading the most. The Wandering Koala is this mysterious traveler that wanders from city to city helping those in need. When he was young, a terrible tragedy left him mute, but that hasn't stopped him from speaking up for what's right.

In this particular adventure, an amateur scientist has made the greatest scientific discovery ever, and the scientific community is embarrassed and threatened that it will cost them all their prestige and their jobs, so they come together to suppress the knowledge. Science isn't immune to the corruption of greed or politics after all.

If you are looking for a great book, I highly recommend you pick this one up.

Crosstalk

Four years ago I finally moved back to Phoenix, Arizona. I started to apply for jobs, and everyone wanted to give me a test. This technical illustration was done for such a test. They wanted someone that could create high quality technical illustrations like you see in Scientific American. The assignment was to illustrate "crosstalk". For those of you who've never heard of that, crosstalk is basically when you put a bunch of cords from several electronic devices next to each other, and the signal from one interferes with the others.

I did this illustration and sent it off. I didn't hear anything for a few weeks. When they finally did get back to me and wanted me to come in for an interview, I had already accepted another job elsewhere. You snooze, you lose. Although this isn't the kind of thing I usually do, it is actually a pretty good illustration, done completely in Photoshop, and I do really like it.