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November 23, 2022
Black Friday Book Sale
Details Here Bypass the cultural gatekeeping, support non-woke authors, and get yourself some great books from both established and emerging talent for only $0.99 – many titles free!Sale starts today, Wednesday November 23, and runs through Tuesday November 29. Includes my Captain Quasar trilogy, After the Sky (Book 1 in my Spirits of the Earth trilogy), and BackTracker.
How to Write Two Books at Once
Step one: train yourself to become ambidextrous. Step two: train your eyes to look both ways at the same time. Step three: train your brain to embrace cognitive dissonance. And voila!Maybe that might work for you, but I've found another strategy. I write every day, but I don't always have time to work on both novels the same day. Lately, I've written five episodes of AGROTHARN during the work
November 5, 2022
AGROTHARN Gets a Nice Review
"A fun blend of Conan the Barbarian and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and sci-fi. When AGROTHARN, an Interstellar Semi-Barbarian, and his faithful Triceratops, Fred, encounter a trickster who has not only stolen his never-ending pot of porridge but broken it as well on the orders of AGROTHARN's long-missing (and thought dead) mother, he goes on a journey to find his mom. Along the way they
October 23, 2022
Introducing: Shadowland Theatre
Just in time for Halloween, a dozen (and counting) short stories from the darker, creepier side of life. I drafted these tales during StoryADay a few years back, and I haven't known what to do with them since. I don't really have the patience my younger self did, submitting stories to publishers and waiting for responses; as a result, this batch has suffered a bit of neglect while I've worked on
October 6, 2022
Gonzo Western + Casablanca = ?!
Amazon Apple AudibleGonzo: Bizarre. Freewheeling or unconventional, especially to the point of outrageous. Absurd, yet realistic in context with plot elements."A most unusual and entertaining story." "Wild, whimsical and like no other." "Really annoying. The characters are just strange." "Very well-written with great characters." "What did I just read!?! Made almost no sense!"
September 24, 2022
Amateur Sleuth
It's no secret that I like poking fun at various tropes, and I've written parodies in more than a few genres. But I've never tackled the "amateur sleuth" mystery before, and I've never written two novels at the same time—until now. While I'm still posting episodes of AGROTHARN regularly, I'm also writing my first Inspector Broekstein Mystery, Murder at the Manor, and posting one chapter at a time
Production Wrapped
This project has been in the works for a while, so I'm very pleased to announce that all of the audio files have been uploaded in record time and approved, and we're just waiting on the quality control folks to give us the green light. Then my brand-spankin' new audiobook will be available from Audible and Apple!Last year, I signed a contract with another producer, but things didn't pan out. I
September 2, 2022
Free Audiobook: Haiku + Microfiction = Maikro
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August 7, 2022
AGROTHARN vs. the Story Cubes of Doom
This month I'm giving myself a little exercise: writing an episode in my AGROTHARN the Interstellar Semi-Barbarian serial every day using story cubes. This is an activity I used to have my creative writing students do, and they really enjoyed it. Appearing on the Alternate Futures podcast back in April reminded me how much fun—and how much of a challenge—it can be to include four random things in
July 30, 2022
Novel #16
Finished writing my sixteenth novel this week, and it's my shortest yet: only 53K. The first draft was 30K, so I put some extra meat on its bones this time around—mostly situational comedy and quirky characters doing their thing. The more absurd, the better. I realize not all funny bones are created equal, so some folks will love it and others will hate it. That's okay. I enjoyed writing this
