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April 16, 2013
Overthink Much?
Is there anything more desperate than an unpublished writer? I’ve been participating in some of the writers’ group discussions over on LinkedIn and I swear, never have I seen so many people trying toaugur the entrails of the publishing world, never have I read so many vaunted “rules” of writing, and never have I heard [...]
April 15, 2013
Caution: Novelist
Someone just bought their way into my next novel. A friend of mine has been hurt by another person–hurt bad–and I sowant to fix it. I wantto walk in there with my swinging youbetcha and dispense some serious justice. I want to storm in like Thunder himself and enunciate for any and all just what [...]
Boys Will Be Boys
Back in grammar school, I did not tease girls. It was not my…not my… Idiom, sir? Yes, idiom. My idiom consisted ofpuppy-eyed longing from afar, followed by tragically romantic love notes, sometimes in conjunction with a back-channel whisper campaign extolling my many but unvaryingly abstract virtues. This engendered little more than epic disinterest, which I [...]
April 12, 2013
Minty Fresh Words
Words are important in my house. We like to be precise in our words, but sometimes there just isn’t a word for what we want to say. If we were really industrious, we could scour the interwebs for a foreign word that sums up what we want–like Schadenfreude or tartle–but it’s so much easier (and [...]
April 11, 2013
Old Man Gamer
I am that rare thing, that forgotten demographic, that chimera of the gaming world. I am a guy with an Xbox Gold Membership and an AARP card. ‘Struth. Even though my twitch-muscle response time took a nosedive during the Reagan administration, even though I often win the FIFO award during multiplayer gaming sessions, I still [...]
April 10, 2013
No More Blah-Blah-Blah
So…that went well… The Free Book Promotion for Unraveling Time was a rousing success. Over 1100 copies were downloaded. I hope you all got your free edition. (If you missed it, I’ve modified the regular price and you can now get a copy for only 99¢.) The downside? Well, first off, Italy and I are [...]
April 9, 2013
The Art of History
As part of my preparation for my next book, I’m reading and analyzing authors who exhibit a particular style. So far, it’s been Alice Hoffmann and Julio Cortazar. Now, it’s Gabriel Garcia Marquez. The book I chose was Love in the Time of Cholera, andseveral things immediately set it apart from other books I’ve read [...]
April 8, 2013
Free Free Free
I’ll admit it. I got nothing done this weekend. I was positively glued to my iPad, pulling up the growing stats on mypromotion for Unraveling Time, watching the numbers click upward hour by hour, day by day. It was fascinating, and it totally exceeded my expectations. (And in case you missed it, no worries; it’s [...]
April 6, 2013
Secondary Effects
Yesterday’s promotional campaign–offeringUnraveling Timefree of charge for an entire weekend– came under the heading of “It couldn’t hurt.” I thought it might get my book in front of a couple of new readers. It did, but it did more than that. There are secondary effects. Unraveling Time is a time-travel/historical/adventure/romance (yep…it is) and as such, [...]
April 5, 2013
It’s Heeere
It’s out there. For free. Go get one! Unraveling Time is free through Tuesday! What are you waiting for? While you’re doing that, I’m going to write up a review of the book I finished yesterday. k . . . . .
