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Breakfast with Smidgen

In response to a Daily Prompt, I shall relay my first encounter of the day earlier this week:

For all I want for her to get enough rest, I cannot help but enjoy it when Little Smidgen wakes up early enough for me to see her before I leave for work.

She appeared, sleep-tousled hair, footy-pajamas and all, at the kitchen table as I approached the cabinets for cereal.

There was the Stuffy-du-jour under her arm (it was the beginningof a four-dayfixation with ‘Darling’, the stocking stuffer puppy she...

B.O.G.O. Part 2~ The Frozen North

You have been hanging from the Cliff for more days than I had intended. (It has been a busy week!)

The idea of moving North was awesome. The actual moving North was gut-wrenching and stress-inducing. It also doesn’t help that I felt like I had gone a little bit crazy. (It certainly wasn’t ‘right in the head’ to pack it up without job or home to end up in…)

We camped and I loved it. We spent time together, which we hadn’t done in months with my crazy double schedules. We swam in the river, walke...

B.O.G.O. Blog Post!!

In an effort to build good blogging habits, I have subscribed to WordPress’s Daily and Weekly e-mails that present me with writing prompts. (Most of these, I have ignored. You can thank me later! I won’t blog unless it draws me in…like the prompt on Magical Powers, or Collecting Detailswhich asked bloggers to use their keen powers of observation and collect 3 separate bits of sensory data and work them into one post. That was fun!)

Today, I am taking one of the previously ignored The Daily Pos...

Do you believe in Magic?

I have a new and fascinating writing prompt from The Daily Post! As a writer of fantasy it just screams for me to blog it up:

You have been transformed into a mystical being who has the ability to do magic. Describe your new abilities in detail. How will you use your new skills?

In my Fantasy series The Hunted Mage Trilogy, the mage-in-training, Eyulf learns to harness the building blocks of magicusing the power of Rune-Singing, with catastrophic results. So the prompt question above is importa...

30 days of Blogging Tasks

So…I had an e-mail from WordPress concerning my “2013 In Review” Statistics. And this is a nice feature and all, but I am a Words guy. Not so much a Numbers guy.

And now I am depressed.

They told me that I have published a paltry 7 new posts this year. Apparently, I am not a Words guy either these days. I have had a rough year job-wise and internet access-wise so I have to cut myself some slack, right.

Wrong! If I have to suffer with the guilt of not posting steadily, then you should all suffer...

Swimming Pools and Snow-Trolls

It was an exciting day, overall.

My wife had to work a shift we knew about far enough in advance that I could request off and spend the day with my little girl. It was a girly-girlevent in the morning. I found myself wearing a scarf, bedecked with glittery brooches and a reindeer headband while marching in a parade for a half dozen stuffed animals. Ya know…same old, same old…(any dad worth his weight will know what I mean.)

After lunch we went outside to the mound of snow left behind by the plo...

Drive Time Radio Interview

Tonight at 5PM-ish I will be interviewed with Clay Groves on WMWV 93.5 FM. Clay will talk about the Local Authors Book fair (Conway Public Library Dec 14th 11AM to 2 PM) and I will talk about HUNTSMAN and the Hunted Mage Trilogy.

They have Live Audio Streaming to listen online, but you may have to try it early. (I had to download Silverlight to hear the station

I have made a $2.00 off Coupon Code for the Paperback edition!

Stumbled onto a great opportunity!

“So much time…so little to do!…Wait a minute…strike that!…Reverse it. Thank you!” ~Gene Wilder’s Willy Wonka~

In a quest for a local writers group here in the North Conway area, I attended a meeting at the Conway public Library.

They are holding a Book Fair on December 14th from 11am to 2 pm to promote local authors.

I heard about it from my friend and fellow local author June O’Donal, creator of the Fryeburg Chronicles.

I will attend with copies of HUNTSMAN: Book One of the Hunted Mage Trilogy...

A Call-Out for Feedback

So…I have access to the InterWebs once more and am trying to get myself organized, back into Writing-Mode!

I am distressed by my months away from my projects and my total lack of Marketing during this time. I really dropped the ball.

So I have some questions for my Twitter, Facebook and Blog followers:

1) Are there any marketing techniques that you have loved seeing and have made you want to read more from an online source? There are a lot of Ad-blast-ish folk out there and I don’t want to be on...

Breaking Radio Silence…

Oh…what a year! It has been far too long since I have posted anything on the blog page, Tweetered, Facebookeringed or done anything remotely connected to Huntsman or Book Two. And I feel pretty guilty about that!

Here’s the deal: I was working a bazillion hours a week for paychecks at one full-time and two part-time jobs that were not enough to keep us above water and when a particularly nice opportunity for my wife fell through we had an existential meltdown, decided to pack our entire lives...