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Fat Mogul vs. The Library

Where yesterday I offered a piece of honesty that was rather lame, today I’ll offer one that is somewhat embarrassing…or at least should be for those of us who consider books an important part of our lives. I absolutely forgot how awesome the library is.  I mean, seriously, it’s like …

Book Review: Seeing Magic by Laura Emmons

Alright, I’m going to be honest here for a second.  One could be easily fooled by the rather unassuming title and cover of Seeing Magic by Laura Emmons into thinking that this book is nothing special.  On the surface, it could easily be overlooked.  I’ll admit, I almost overlooked it, …

Fat Mogul vs. Strong Swimmers

So, I’ve come to the realization that I haven’t spent much time on here talking about one of the most exciting aspects of my life over the next few months…the impending arrival of my third child…perhaps the brown eyed dark haired baby that I’ve been longing for?  Just kidding, those …

Fat Mogul vs. The Literary Agent or…The Return of the Query Letter

Alright folks, so, as promised, I’ve gone about the process of actually sending out my first query letter for The Long Chron…you know those query letters, right?  Those things that authors who wish to not self-publish a book send out to literary agents and publishers begging them to give their …

Fat Mogul vs. Finishing Editing

I’m pretty giddy…today’s one of those days where I get to state to myself, “Hey, I’ve finished that book”, knowing fully well, of course, that I will be returning to doing a whole great deal of work continually for, well, who the heck knows how long, especially if this moves …

Fat Mogul vs. Perseverance

This morning, whilst excitedly talking to my wife about how it may be possible that I’ll be able to finish editing The Long Chron today even, and also going then into a long list of all of the things I’ll be able to start doing once that’s finished, she looked …

Fat Mogul vs. The Novella

I received a lovely little comment on my post last week about considering how to move forward with my writing projects from someone calling themselves a first time reader of my work.  As tends to be the case with the comments that people leave on my blog, it got me …

Fat Mogul vs. The Writing Queue

As I near the end of writing yet another book, I find myself faced with the concept of deciding what to write next.  I typically have things planned out several books ahead, meaning, I’ve generally got an idea of what I want to write next, as I have an incredibly …

Book Review: Look Sharpe! by Karen Perkins

Pirates and Privateers and Buccaneers, oh my! Sorry..really had no clue how to start this post… That’s definitely not the way. Anyways, apart from that terrible start to a review post, this morning I finished up book 3 in Karen Perkins’ Valkyrie series, Look Sharpe!. Honestly, this is one of …

Fat Mogul vs. The Sins of Youth

I got a text message last night stating that it was somewhat disappointing that after finally getting his spotlight on the blog, it was only about his hair…I reminded him that I also mentioned his wrinkles, but apparently that just didn’t matter one bit.  So, I’ve decided to rectify that …