Check out Tales from the Crosstimbers, a quarterly periodical of speculative fiction where Max is founder and managing editor.
Max’s fiction covers many genres, most with LGBTQ protagonists
- Science Fiction
- Mystery
- Horror
- Urban fantasy/Slipstream
Max’s fiction focuses on characters you care about. Sometimes ordinary, sometimes quirky, sometimes downright evil, the conflict between the characters drives the story.
Meantime, here’s the lastest science news.
- Smelling chocolate helped men complete more reps without feeling more tired
- This Australian cave hid 25,000 years of ritual secrets
- Scientists discover a major brain shift between ages 50 and 75
- UV light reveals possible camouflage on a 125-million-year-old crocodile
- The shape behind the Einstein problem just revealed strange new physics
- Supermassive black hole winds are 100 times more powerful than scientists thought
- Nearly 10,000 patients reveal what works best for knee arthritis pain relief
- Tiny cell “antennas” may help explain why some babies are born with heart defects
- Plague was killing entire families thousands of years before the Black Death
- Cancer is rising in younger adults. Faster biological aging may help explain why
- Hidden brain wiring may help keep the mind sharp as gray matter shrinks
- Chemistry textbooks have been getting this wrong for nearly 100 years
- Crocodiles are famous for finding their way home. These ones didn’t
- This German submarine sank in 1917. It’s still leaking TNT
- Scientists find how “zombie” cells fuel inflammation as we age










