Martin L. Shoemaker
Award-winning science fiction. Mystery. Wonder. Heart.
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Help Me Choose My Next Tie!
Now that contracts have been signed, I’m honored to announce that Analog Science Fiction and Fact will be publishing my story “Uncle Roy’s Computer Repair and Used Robot Parts”!
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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...
About Blue Collar Science
The motto of Blue Collar Space is: The future doesn’t just happen… Somebody has to build it. That’s going to take grand, audacious science and engineering, which I find very exciting! This is a page to collect some… Read More
Write What You Don’t Know
“Write what you know” is trite advice. It’s a good example of my Tools, Not Rules philosophy: it’s useful to draw from what you know to inspire your writing (indeed, I think it’s unavoidable); but you shouldn’t limit… Read More
Chef Salad from Perfect Pizza
If the pizza is perfect at Perfect Pizza in Hopkins MI (and it’s pretty good!), what’s better than perfect? The Chef Salad. That’s a large, which by itself is enough for two or more meals. The vegetables are… Read More
While I’m Deep in Code…
…the boys are hard at work!
Power Up Your Writing!
by Grand Rapids Region Writers Group (GRRWG) Join us as multi-published authors Alex Kourvo and Lara Zielin show us how to Power Up Your Writing! Sign up at eventbrite! About this event Ticket price ($40 for GRRWG members,… Read More
Jerry Takes the High Ground
Jerry loves to be up high. Larry doesn’t go up there that often.
Dictation Trail Opens Soon!
I have some details to work out yet; but soon I’ll be hosting live dictation sessions from Dictation Trail, my “recording studio”.
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