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Balancing The Writing Life

Balancing the writing life means different things to different people. A lot of writers have children to look after, so not only are they trying to balance a day job and family life, but also writing. Truth be known, I have a profound respect for those folks who juggle all of that. Me – I can’t really complain. The writing life has always been easy for me to balance. Long story short — I don’t have children so ever since I was nineteen, if I wasn’t working, reading, or spending time with frie...

When Good Themes Go Bad

You’ll noticed a new look to my website. As it turned out when I upgraded my WordPress installation to the new 3.4 my old theme crashed and died a horrible death. I was stuck for several hours with a “broken” website while I searched into the wee hours of the morning looking for a replacement theme that had some of the same functionality as the old one (not an easy task, I assure you).

The site you’re looking at now is what I’ve come up with. It still needs some personalizing, tweaking, and mo...

Windows Phone 7 – A Practical Review

I was never a phone person. When cell phones first came out, I got one. I had one of the very first flip phones and it was like carrying a small brick around. As cell phones got smaller, so did mine. For the longest time I used my phone for what it was intended. A phone. But see, I’m not a phone person. I hate chatting on the phone for fun. For me, the phone is a practical thing that you use to share information with other people.

“Hi, I’m running a few minutes late.”

“Hey, send a tow truck, my...

You Want Internet Privacy? Leave.

I have been reading over and over again people posting notices on their Facebook pagesstating something to the effect of:

PRIVACY NOTICE: Warning – any person and/or institution and/or Agent and/or Agency of any governmental structure including but not limited to the United States Federal Government also using or monitoring/using this website or any of its associated websites, you do NOT have my permission to utilize any of my profile information nor any of the content contained herein includi...

Writing Updates

I know a lot of my posts recently have been about relatively mundane things and I haven’t really given a writing update in awhile. It seems that ever since the first of the year, readings have been taking up a lot of my time as well as processing orders for Infernal Colopatiron. Sadly this affects my writing time, too, since I’ve had to divide my time between the part-time day job, writing and Daemonolatry to-do’s.

Then I fell behind on Into Darkness (which is out BTW for those of you who didn...

Line of the Dead!

I’ve always loved a deadline. I’m one of those people who thrives on deadlines. I do some of my best work under pressure. When I decided, at the tender age of seventeen, that I was going to be a professional journalist, it was theadrenalinerush of the deadline that made me think I’d love working for a newspaper.

Throughout college I remember putting off twenty-page papers until the night before they were due, then sucking down pots of coffee and working into the wee hours of morning to finish...

Patience (for laziness) is a Virtue I’ve Given Up

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what happened to my patience. Somewhere along the line I lost it. I’ve lost it with the I-want-to-write-books-to-get-rich-quickwriters, and I’ve lost it with those who dabble in Demonolatry and the occult.Then yesterday I read a post by Aleq Grai that really hit the nail on the head. And the reality is it’s not just Wicca where this is happening — this same phenomena extends to just about everything these days. So many members of the younger generation wa...

Daemonolatry Organizations & Their (In)Significance

Okay, maybe I’m being a bit unfair with the title of this post. Daemonolatry Organizations aren’t insignificant, but they are greatly misunderstood. People seem to think they’re like other occult orgs out there like Temple of Set, Golden Dawn (if I say GD in my posts, please know I often mean GenDem instead of Golden Dawn, I apologize for any confusion this has caused or may have caused in the past), or OTO.

The reality is they’re not quite the same thing. First – there is no such thing as an...

Self-Responsibility

Ah, that ever elusive topic of being responsible for oneself. Self responsibility seems like a rarity these days. Recently I overheard a woman explaining to a group of people why she got a DUI. Because, you know, it wasn’t really her fault. No, she was driving along, minding her own business when she swerved (on accident) and the oncoming car hit her. So when the police got there, because she just happened to have some alcohol (it was a tiny bit- yeah, enough to get her convicted of felony ve...

I Gotta Be Me….

So in this month’s Merry-Go-Round blog post we were asked to talk about who influenced us as a writer. Next to that, inparenthesis, it said: (i.e. who would you like to be compared to?) When I was a teenager back in the late 80′s the answer would have been, hands down, David Eddings. I idolized David Eddings. But that’s not who I ended up being compared to. Nope.

I really try not to read reviews of my books. I do, but sometimes you just have to, no matter how brutal. I remember clamping my jaw...