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Fat Mogul vs. Strategizing

My books often involve a moment in which the characters are discussing their current dilemma and working through methods in which to overcome the hurdle ahead of them and move on to victory.  Of course, more often than not, their plans don’t generally work out as intended and the group …

Fat Mogul vs. Distractions

I used to be very good at getting obsessively focused on things.  You know the type, where they would be so zoned into something you would almost have to whack them on the head in order to get them to even hear that you were talking to them.  I was …

Book Review: A Rat for a Rat by Angelika Rust

I finally cleared out my queue enough to take the plunge into trying out Kindle Unlimited…you know, that service where you spend $10/month to get yourself access to Kindle’s library of over 600,000 titles, including those written by me and many of the authors I have highlighted on the blog …

Fat Mogul vs. WriteOn

So, I know I just chatted about this site earlier in the week, mostly due to the fact that it has marked my newest novel, The Long Chron, as being this week’s Staff Pick.  It’s pretty exciting, and the site gets higher marks for being on the few out there …

Fat Mogul vs. The Smart Daughter

This week my daughter has already shown me how she learned how to tie her shoes and talked at length about the Russian artist Kandinsky, even explaining how she and her class worked to emulate some of his artwork, most specifically his love of circles. I just want to say, …

Fat Mogul vs. The Feature

I don’t want to make a huge deal of this or anything (although…you know…I’m devoting a whole blog article to it…) but today marks a pretty big milestone for me…at least in my mind.  Today, as can be seen by the image here to the right, I got featured! I …

Fat Mogul vs. The Cold

I don’t know how things are looking where you’re at, but here in western Wisconsin, it’s definitely starting to feel like the first season or two of Game of Thrones…as in everything makes you think, “Winter is Coming”. It’s cold, suckas…like, too cold.  It just came on like a bad …

Fat Mogul vs. Still Attempting to Sell a Book

I’ve got to warn you, this post will come off as pretty whiny, I’m certain.  It’s not that I’m, in actuality, this whiny about the situation, as should be understood, I typically use exaggeration to make a point.  But at the same time, since I like to take some time …

Fat Mogul vs. Hard Work

I don’t like working hard. The End. Okay, fine…more words… What if life were handed to us?  What if we were able to live a life without effort…without work? The Garden of Eden seems a fitting example of a world in which effort simply isn’t required.  Adam and Eve lived …

Fat Mogul vs. Post Book Depression

The titular concept is something I’ve mentioned in passing on here before, but I’m not entirely certain that I’ve gone too deeply into what it truly is.  The idea is that after finishing up a big creative project there’s this hole that you feel within yourself… I first became aware …