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So…

Having learned nothing from my previous experiences, I utterly burned myself out writing three thousand words per day and had to take amonth of writing. The three thousands words actually turned out okay, but the story suffered because I was racing through and not taking my time. So I have returned to what haas wroked [...]

In Defense of Neil’s Journal

So it’s no secret I’m a big fan of Neil Gaiman’s. I’m not his greatest fan (who’s quite possibly gibbering in a padded cell somewhere) – I don’t think I even rank among Neil’s top twenty thousand fans. I just love his work, and consequently I love following his online journal, which you can read [...]

I’m doing something stupid again this month

So I’m not going to be around much. As soon as I’m done I’ll return to regale you with tales of my heroic success or gruesome failure.

A Quick Update

Hi folks, I haven’t been updating much because I’ve…well I’ve been writing.  I realized if I actually want to make my deadline of having something of good quality to take with me (metaphorically speaking) to World Fantasy Con next year, I’m going to need to be writing it now. I’m also dealing with a life [...]

Enforced Deadlines

I’m lazy. I also do too much. This is a bad combination. I don’t know what got into me, but I finally snapped and decided to do something to enforce a deadline on myself.  I need to get this novel done and polished and I’ve been that dreadful; combination of slack and busy that means [...]

A Sad Day

My cat Stubbs died a couple of nights ago. She was my writing partner for the last year, always content to sit next to me curled up on her blanket and making feel a bit less like a shut in with a computer and a zombie fixation. RIP

How Things Change

This post could have also been labeled “aieee!” but I would have worried that it would have given the wrong message. Things are actually pretty darn good. For one thing, I’m getting married. I got engaged to my girlfriend DJ, who’s put up with me for coming up on eight years now, last weekend. We’re [...]

New Year, Same Challenges

First, a quick update. If you look at the counter on the right of this page you can see that over $20,000 has been raised for Tee Morris and Sonic Boom. I’m still going to be giving away a book of Tee’s each month until April, so if you’ve made a donation and want to [...]

Helping Tee Morris and Sonic Boom

Recently author/podcaster Tee Morris’s wife Natalie died unexpectedly, leaveing Tee struggling with the personal and financial burden that comes with the sudden death of a loved one. I don’t know Tee well enough to give you any more details, but I can tell you all that Tee Morris started this whole podcasting fiction thing. He [...]

Review of Story Structure – Demystified

I have new review up, and if you’re an author looking to make a living getting published, you need to check it out here. This is the first book I’ve given a 10/10 score to, because of the huge impact this one book can potentially have on your career.

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