Author Archives: Chris Vera

Speaking on Privacy Today

I’ll be speaking on the topic of energy privacy today at the 2013 Data Management & Analysis Conference for Utilities. If you are a utility customer, then you need to realize that your usage data can be used to determine things about you: your behaviors, your lifestyle. Your privacy is not dead. YOU should beContinue reading “Speaking on Privacy Today”

Story Structuring Software

Now that I’ve hired a professional editor to help me with The Left Hand of Light (thanks, Larry Edwards!) I need to go hands-off for awhile while he works his editorial magic. (“Version control,” he says, “is critical.”) That gives me some time to consider my next novel. For this new work, I want toContinue reading “Story Structuring Software”

My writing is inspired by music

Every writer has different techniques that inspires them to write their stories. I have realized that I’m soundtrack-driven. That means that when I listen to a particularly interesting song I imagine a scene of a story playing out as the music plays, just like a soundtrack in a movie. Then I feel compelled to putContinue reading “My writing is inspired by music”

Seven Days to Topside available for e-Readers

Attention, sci fi fans! For all of you packing e-readers, I’ve made my short story “Seven Days to Topside” available on Amazon for only 99 cents (which I realize isn’t going to make me rich, but covers the cost of putting it into ePub format and the cover art!) Seven Days is the story ofContinue reading “Seven Days to Topside available for e-Readers”

Left Hand of Light Book Cover

Hi, all. I’m crazy-excited to reveal the book cover for “The Left Hand of Light,” a modern mythology about a broken-hearted intuitive who learns that she alone can navigate the astral plane for a dark and mysterious man searching for the soul of his lost love in the Underworld. I’m self-publishing the book this fall! IfContinue reading “Left Hand of Light Book Cover”

Transmissions hits the airwaves

Cheryl Tolliver will be reading poems from “Transmissions to the Mystic Nebula” on her Online Radio Station, “Love, Life, Pain, Joy” tonight, April 23 at 10:30 PM Pacific. She will be recording the show for those that can’t stay awake that late. I hope you listen in to hear her thoughts on love, life andContinue reading “Transmissions hits the airwaves”