Martin L. Shoemaker
Award-winning science fiction. Mystery. Wonder. Heart.
About Martin L. Shoemaker
Martin L. Shoemaker is a programmer who writes on the side… or maybe it’s the other way around. He told stories to imaginary friends and learned to type on his brother’s manual typewriter even though he couldn’t reach… Read More
About Blue Collar Space
The future doesn’t just happen… Somebody has to build it. Martin L. Shoemaker, award-winning author of “Today I Am Paul”, presents stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary work. Planning, exploring, constructing… living and growing and dying… across the… Read More
About Dictation Trail
I have a writing secret, learned from Kevin J. Anderson and mastered by many writers before me: I dictate virtually all of my fiction. I average 25 to 100 words per minute, depending on my circumstances and mood…. Read More
What's on my Minds...
Not All Those Who Wander Are Lost
(With acknowledgments to J.R.R. Tolkien and Alistair Cockburn) This is not an original idea with me. It was inspired by Alistair Cockburn’s “Three Levels of Listening” (Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game), which introduced the idea in the… Read More
Nobody Knows Anything
Nobody knows anything… Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what’s going to work. Every time out it’s a guess and, if you’re lucky, an educated one. William Goldman, Adventures in the Screen… Read More
Isn’t It a Tough Life?
Larry sleeping on the DVD shelves.
Submissions Open August 30 for Mirror, Mirror
Copied from https://wordfirewestern.moksha.io/publication/2/3/submit… MIRROR, MIRROR: Modern Myths Executive Editor: Kevin J. Anderson When you’re alone with your reflection, are you prepared for what you see? A prince in disguise? A monster revealed? An alien race? Mirrors can be… Read More
Two great things that don’t go together…
Cats love boxes. Cats love to chase laser pointers. But they refused to chase the dot into the box.
Cat test
Testing cat pics from my phone…
Cat test
Testing my ability to post cat pics from my phone. This is Larry… …and this is Jerry.
Larry and Jerry
These are my boys, Larry and Jerry. They’re named for two of my writing mentors, Larry Niven and the late Jerry Pournelle. They keep my life interesting. Now they can keep my blog interesting.
Something new is coming soon!
Taking advantage of some necessary site maintenance, I’m redesigning my web site. Watch for more soon!