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March 5, 2014
Stilted Writing
I’m reading a couple of novels written by new writers. I’m finding they share something that I have noticed before in debut efforts. I am trying to figure out how to express coherently what the impression they gave me was. My First Reader suggests that perhaps it boils down to ‘spending to much time on […]
March 4, 2014
Moving Right Along
I’m trying, as always, to keep my life scheduled and ordered… Oh, who am I kidding? It’s chaos, sorted by the pattern of a given day, and always subject to upheaval. Here on the blog, I’m going to give you an idea of what to expect, so if you only drop in for writing/publishing info, […]
March 3, 2014
Cover Layout Tutorial
Mirror-posted at ASM I have permission from the talented Gina Marie Wylie to use one of her covers to illustrate a before-and-after of an ebook cover, taking it from amateur, to professional, in a few easy steps. I am using Gimp 2.8 on a Mac, Gimp is freeware, and the last upgrade makes it almost […]
March 2, 2014
Trickster Noir: Snippet 7
Returning you to your regularly scheduled Sunday Snippets, here is another section of the novel. Thank you to all of you who popped over and bought a copy of The Eternity Symbiote, and I hope that reviews will be kind when they appear in time! I have gotten a few beta reports back on Trickster, […]
March 1, 2014
Winning, Losing, and playing the Game
Hear, O fellow authors, and consider this. Writing is not a competition. There is not a scarcity of readers, and although there has been for lo, these many years an artificial scarcity of of reading material, that drought is coming to an end with the Age of Indie. So why do we hear fearsome cries […]
February 28, 2014
Review: Cannibal Gold
I don’t know if I have mentioned it before, but growing up I read a lot of my father’s books. To be honest, I read everything in sight, but… this is relevant to today’s review. I don’t remember the first Clive Cussler I read, and it didn’t take me long to know they were all […]
February 27, 2014
Encouragement
Thank you for all the kind words yesterday. I vented because I just couldn’t think of what to talk about on the blog, in part because I was so tired… well, between you all being encouraging, a pair of parties booked for the weekend, a canceled class that freed up my evening, and some art […]
February 26, 2014
Exhaustion
I’m worn thin. There are so many things I should be doing right now, and I managed one chore this morning, but can’t seem to muster the enthusiasm for another just yet. I keep telling myself I shouldn’t stress, I need to stop dwelling on things I cannot change, but it’s not helping. I’m trying […]
February 25, 2014
Perpetual Adolescence
I wrote a paper for Human Growth and Development close to two years ago now, and it came immediately to mind when the latest example of childishness popped up on the internet. Larry Correia delivers a brilliant fisking of the article. I really should expand on this paper, I didn’t even touch on the neural […]
February 24, 2014
Blurbage
Mirror-posted to Amazing Stories Magazine I don’t know about you, but summing up a book into a blurb is one of the most difficult chores I have as an author. Trying to succinctly convey what it is about, to allure the reader into paying money for the story and amusement value it contains, but not […]
