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Several years ago, I was in a writing group, and one memb...

Several years ago, I was in a writing group, and one member read my book and asked me if I’d ever read another book. I said no. Never heard of it. Well, he first suggested that I read it, but then said that I should avoid reading it until I was finished with my book, because he was worried about influence. Now, I decided to take his advice and wait, but that project has been on hold and I was just so curious…

I started reading that book about a week ago and just… the similarities are striking...

Seems I lost my physical copy of my rough draft for The K...

Seems I lost my physical copy of my rough draft for The Kirin Prince. I’ve been in the process of getting ready for a move, and in doing so, a lot of things have gotten moved around and misplaced. I’m hoping it turns up soon, but worst case, I can just print out a fresh one. I just hate the thought of wasting so much paper…

Oof…

I had a goal for publishing free chapters, but I didn’t hit it this week. Work has needed a lot from me recently, so I haven’t had much time to write or even to get online. Next week, I hope to finish the Dante short and also get back on schedule with Nascent Beginnings. I just had to take a week off.

My cat has stolen the book I was reading and is using it as a pillow…

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Story accepted!

It’s been a while since I sold a story to an anthology. In fact, I’ve only done it once about two years ago. But I’ve done it again!

I’ll update my story section with the story and anthology info once we’re closer to the publication date.

Oops…

I’m terrible at social media. I think I’m better at keeping up this blog than anything. I’m about ready to delete my facebook and twitter because of how rarely I post on either of them…

New Story

So far, I’ve been good about updating my story once a week. But Webnovel offered a challenge to write a short story featuring one or more words from a list, and I accepted. Part of the challenge is to finish at least 10,000 words in 2 weeks, and to update with a new chapter once a day. So, I’m writing a very rushed and not very good Dante story. Still, it’s more prequel stuff. For those who are interested, I’ll provide links under my Stories tab.

Current schedule:
One chapter of Nascent Begin...

New Free Chapter Available

I just updated the free novel Nascent Beginnings with a new, never-before seen chapter on both platforms. Enjoy!

I honestly wanted to treat them more like interconnected short stories than a book, but I think it makes more sense to just call it a novel-in-progress at this point.

And…

Done! Story section changed. There’s one more place that I’m debating adding, but it gets so little traffic, I’m debating why I even bothered uploading there in the first place.

Free Short Stories

I was going to wait until I had the second chapter up, but I figure I might as well throw the reading links up for now. Mostly so I remember what sites I posted my story to. I’ll treat it as a novel, since all of the short stories combine into one longer tale. I’m not sure how long it will be because I’m not done drafting it yet, but I have 15 chapters drafted so far with two previously unpublished chapters revised and ready to post.

My goal is to post a minimum of one new chapter a month, wi...