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May 30, 2016
The Dystopia We Live In
Blood Debt is as done as it’s going to get on my end, which means it’s off to the editor and I’m hard at work on Chasing Ghosts. So far, I’ve marketed the book as an urban fantasy novel, knowing that, as the series progressed, it would become less urban fantasy and more of a…
May 12, 2016
Stop Comparing Yourself to Others
*Strong language warning* You know me. I like my f-bombs. When I was in the ninth grade, I tested into remedial math. I’ve never been good at math. I’ve always hated it. But there was a time when I considered myself about average when it came to math sorcery. When I was placed in…
May 11, 2016
Book Two: Things I Learned
I finally finished my revisions to Blood Debt! Whew! That seemed like it took forever! I started writing the first draft on March 6th and just now finished it. It took me 67 days (or about 2 months and a week) to go from nothing to something I can send to betas. It used to…
May 6, 2016
BOOK SALE!
The Guilty by Association e-book is on sale for just .99 cents! To get it, click the banner above or visit Amazon.com This weekend, I’m participating in a promotion deal with a bunch of other great authors. If you’ve been holding off getting the book, now’s your chance to get a great deal. This promotion is only…
May 3, 2016
On Advice and Dissenting Voices
Other authors used to tell me that writing and publishing a book were the easy parts of being an author. I didn’t believe them. When they said marketing was hard, I laughed. How hard can it be? Then it happened to me. I haven’t run a lot of promotions, mostly because I’ve been getting a…
April 27, 2016
Writing is a Muscle
Last week, my son participated in the Special Olympics. The events include kids and teens of varying ability and ages. My son is somehow very tall with long, strong legs that lend themselves to jumping and running a little higher and a little faster than other boys his age. In the standing long jump, he…
April 22, 2016
KDP Select: A sort of grumpy review
Guilty by Association has been out just over three weeks and I have to say that I’ve already learned a lot. Coming out of the gate with the second book, there are a lot of things I think I would do differently. Over the next few posts, I’ll share some of those points with you.…
April 19, 2016
Character Interview: Sal Silvermoon
Down the street and around the corner from Good Coin Laundry on Willow Road in Paint Rock, Texas sits an unassuming double wide trailer built sometime in the mid-nineties. The rear deck has seen better days, though signs of an ongoing repair are evident. Beside a worn red toolbox sits a vintage red Indian Chief…
April 8, 2016
Character Interview: Ed Petersen
Sitting at a table in the back room of downtown Eden’s Krell’s Comix Shop, three young men roll dice and move plastic pieces across a hex board. A cleric, a rogue and a barbarian, each represented in a complex series of stats on photocopied character sheets, navigate a dungeon in search of legendary treasure. Unbeknownst…
April 4, 2016
Don’t Just Kill Your Darlings…Murder Them
It’s two in the morning and I’ve just killed someone. As I sit in the comfort of my pajamas, basking in the electric white light of my word processing software, craving the cigarettes I gave up a decade ago to take the edge off my nerves, I wonder how it came to this. How did…
