Spinning Tales for Fun and Profit...

I have been writing professionally for several years now, mostly educational curricula for NASA. On September 1, 2005, I took the plunge and left NASA to write freelance full-time. I'm still working on my Ph.D. in education, so that takes up some of my time, and I'm still doing curriculum development and program evaluation through my company, Kepler Educational Consulting, but I'm shifting more and more of my time simply writing fiction stories and non-fiction articles. Here is a list of stories I've written and my current work in progress. If you'd like more information on my thoughts on writing, I encourage you to check out my blog!

My Blue AlphaSmart Neo

After seeing that someone dyed their Neo flame red, I decided to take the plunge and dye mine as well. It came out looking really good! Though it's hard to see in the picture, the top part is blue but the bottom part is black. I used PlastiKote Vinyl Dye to color it, so the Neo just looks and feels like it was manufactured in this color. As far as I know, I'm the second person to ever try this. Very cool...

Current Works in Progress

Novel: The Farmer Takes a Life, Modern Fantasy/Mystery

This is the story I'm focusing on for the foreseeable future; I'll eventually have a website for the book at http://www.PeterFarmer.org.

Novel: Mercury Mine, first of the Exodus Project series.
Short Story: "Will You Love Me When the Lights Go Out?"

Submitted Works

Short Story: "The Stilled Beating Heart"
Novellette: "Balance"
Short Story: "Hope Springs Eternal," a young adult story set in the Exodus Project series.
Flash Fiction: "It's Not Just a Job," a "slice-of-life" piece about the realities of space flight in 2063.
Children's Poem: "I Have a Rocket," channel Dr, Suess through a science fiction author.

Published Works (Paying Markets)

Article: "Campaign Setting: Goethe Mining Complex," Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society, 14 March 2006, Steve Jackson Games (including the artwork!)
Article: "So You Want to Run a Traveller LARP, Part II, " Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society, 14 March 2006 Steve Jackson Games
Article: "So You Want to Run a Traveller LARP, Part I, " Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society, 3 January 2006, Steve Jackson Games
Article: "Traveller Live-Action Role Playing," Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society, 25 October 2005, Steve Jackson Games

Lots and lots of educational curricula...

Other Works

Short Story: "Meditations"

I'll list more as I have time to enter them...