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October 23, 2019
Free: ALL THE THINGS (Today Only)
JUST for October 23rd: ALL MY BOOKS are free!
Readers say:
“Holy Mind Games, Batman!” “Good enough to forget to eat” “Looking for something different? Here it is” “Wow. Just wow.”Only free for 24 hours!Alien armies, vampire family drama, and wizarding shenanigans abound.
October 2, 2019
The City of Az’Kabek
As always, this is presented unedited, so pardon any strangeness. Enjoy!
Hestur, General of the Seven Armies, Black Hoof of Abaddon, and Kelpie’s Own King, told me all about Az’Kabek. I will keep it far shorter than he did. I will also include information that he, at the time, did not.
Az’Kabek was approximately thirty-two square kilometers – something like twenty square miles in total. The wall surrounding it was three hundred feet high, a mind-boggling height even today. So much care had g...
September 30, 2019
The Bread, the Harp, the Coil of Gold
The knock on my door is so quiet that I briefly doubt I’d heard it.
I hesitate, pen poised. One blissful minute of silence later, the knock comes again.
I have no appointments scheduled, so this is likely to be interesting. “You may enter.”
The door opens to reveal a young woman evidently trying for the role of a Swiss shepherdess. She carries a messily hand-woven basket in front of her messily hand-sewn dress, and her messy braids bounce on her chest as she nearly skips to me, cheeks flushed...
September 28, 2019
My Sugar Detox
If you follow me on social media, then you know I’ve struggled with fibromyalgia and chronic pain for years. You also know that in the last couple of months, I’ve instituted a major life-change in an attempt to beat it.
And it’s working.
Family and friends have all reached out asking me about this, but since there isn’t an online plan, I haven’t known quite what to tell them. I’ve cobbled together what I’m doing after tons of research, after compiling both other people’s personal experience a...
September 24, 2019
The Pratchett Principle
400 words a day will get you there.
“For more than three years I wrote more than 400 words every day. I mean, every calendar day. If, in those pre-portable days, I couldn’t get to a keyboard, I wrote hard the previous night and caught up the following day, and if it ever seemed that it was easy to do the average I upped the average.”
Sir Terry Pratchett
Just 400. That’s the deal Sir Terry Pratchett made with himself back when he decided to become a professional writer, back when he still had a d...
September 23, 2019
FOR DAWS TO PECK AT IS OUT!
It is my great pleasure to introduce you to my latest tale, FOR DAWS TO PECK AT. Get it free via the newsletter, or pick it up at Amazon!
“Don’t promise what we can’t guarantee. Nobody could protect us from Ravena of Monmouth except for Father, and He’s not here.”
FOR DAWS TO PECK ATHow far would you go for a glimpse of the future?
Terrance, Liza, and Salome are willing to do a lot, up to and including saving the life of Ravena, the family pariah. But family drama is never simple, and tonight, v...
September 22, 2019
FOR DAWS TO PECK AT is Out!
It is my great pleasure to introduce you to my latest tale, FOR DAWS TO PECK AT. Get it free via the newsletter, or pick it up at Amazon!
“Don’t promise what we can’t guarantee. Nobody could protect us from Ravena of Monmouth except for Father, and He’s not here.”
Read the First Chapter
$2.99
September 20, 2019
How to Be Happy as a Writer
Most of us writer-types spend much of our time anything but happy. We’re not as successful as we like, or we didn’t win NaNoWriMo, or we’re stuck on a chapter we didn’t anticipate, or we’ve written ourselves into a corner, etc. and so forth.
Look, no one is going to be happy all the time, but I’m not asking you to be. Constant writer happiness isn’t the goal. Normalizing it is.
THAT DARNED ELUSIVE BLUEBIRDThere are many steps to finding writer happiness, but one is important above all others: s...
September 7, 2019
Playing The “Too Many Drafts” Game (in which Everyone is a Winner)
Do you know this game? If you’re a writer, you do.
It’s where you write a draft of a scene or a chapter, but it’s not right, so you put it aside and try again.It’s where you actually finished a manuscript, but it isn’t ready, so you rewrite it. Again. And again. And again.It’s where you have six different endings or three contradicting story-arcs or sixteen alternate ways your hero could get from city A to city Z, and you’ve written most of them, and none of them are quite right.Any of this so...
