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On this day seventeen years ago, I wrote my first scribblings on this blog to polish my writing chops and promote my first book. That spurred hundreds of EMS columns and articles, a half dozen textbook chapters, at least three successful podcasts, dozens of short stories in various anthologies, and a half-dozen more books of my own. Since then, there ...

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… there’s a new column up on EMS1. The Special Forces of Healthcare: Becoming Force Multipliers in Emergency Care

En Route: A Paramedic’s Stories of Life, Death and Everything In Between is now available in hardcover! Remember, if you’d like personalized and signed copies of my books, click one of the book covers on the right sidebar!

The conference seasons for EMS conferences and sci-fi/fantasy cons is in full swing, so here’s where I’ll be appearing through summer 2023. If you’re near any one of these venues, stop by and visit, get your books signed, and we’ll share some stories and adult beverages! Fantasci, Durham, NCMarch 24-26 I’ll be at Fantasci in Durham, NC, March 23-26. The ...

Many of you may have read of the kerfluffle over the recent edits of Roald Dahl’s books by his publisher, Puffin Books. Puffin is an imprint of Penguin/Random House. If you haven’t, I’ll boil it down for you. Puffin, in an effort to keep his books sterile and flavorless inclusive to modern readers, hired a bunch of humorless scolds and ...

Went through the old Blog Roll today, and deleted over 200 defunct blogs. Most are not blogging any more, a few I keep up with in meatspace or on social media.More than a few are dead, and for some of them… I just can’t. Deleting their link would be saying goodbye, and I’m not ready to do that. In the ...

The challenge: Write a story of 50 words based on a picture. It’s harder than you think. He didn’t ask for cartilaginous ass plates, but God made him a warrior. When a tunnel rat twerks an enemy to death with those plates, he tells himself he did it to protect the other wombats in his unit and soldiers on. He’s ...

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*taps microphone*Is this thing on?For you blog readers, the origin story of SumDood is now a novel!Introducing, “Kindred: Book 1 of the SumDood Chronicles.”Should be available on Kindle within the next couple of days, and in paperback and hardcover by January 1, 2023. Until then, here’s a teaser!********** I suppose if I am to tell you my tale, first you ...

New article up on Medscape:Etiam non silentium. Free to read, but you may have to create a Medscape account if you don’t already have one.

EMS peeps, help a doctoral researcher with a study on stress levels in paramedics, now expanded to include COVID-19 related stress. Our profession lives and dies on research, folks. If we don’t participate in it, we can never take ownership of our profession. The Impact of COVID-19 on First Responders and Family

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