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Summer wrap-up

So a lot has happened over the last couple months since my last anemic update. Biggest news is that my wife gave birth to our lovely son Jacob, and we couldn’t be more excited. He’s keeping us up a lot … Continue reading

July writing results

Slowly starting to get ramped up and into the swing of things. Big news is that a financial matter I’ve been waiting on to resolve has resolved, so this month I’ll be moving forward and filing my various business paperwork … Continue reading

Updates to follow

Boy am I a bad blogger or what? Haven’t updated this stuff since February. I’ve been keeping my Facebook feed more regularly updated, but with the changes to FB, I’m not sure that’s the most viable means of getting contact … Continue reading

January post-mortem

So January 2015 came and went. Wow, was that fast! Other than not posting to my blog, what else have I been up to? Writing. Oh my, all the writing. Remember that million word goal I set for myself? Yeah. … Continue reading →

2014 Year in Review and 2015 Resolutions

Wow, what a year 2014 was. Not so much for my writing, but for everything else. Started the year house-shopping and wedding planning, then packed up two households to combine into one, moved, got married, went on honeymoon, and had … Continue reading →

Newsflash: Moving is a time-suck

In case you didn’t know. Sheesh. I feel like I’ve been packing, painting, and moving since March. *looks at calendar* Oh. I *have* been packing, painting, and moving since March. End is in sight, fortunately. More to report soon, but … Continue reading →

Work in progress snippet

I posted this on a works-in-progress thread over at kboards, and figured I should share it here as well, just for grins and giggles. This is from the current WIP, a weird western meets ancient Egypt fusion: Tjety stared at … Continue reading →

On connections and engagement

So, in addition to writing, I’m in the process of going through my home and packing in preparation for a relocation to Alexandria, VA. One of my main areas of focus has been to go through my collection of books, partly because it’s a huge PITA to pack and move a lot of booksand partly because bookshelf space is a limited and precious commodity at my new digs.I’m letting go of the books I’ve read and don’t intend to read again, the books I haven’t gotten around to reading and almost certainly...

Update to end of May 2014

So who am I and what am I doing? Beyond what I posted on the “About” page, I’m a genre writer currently working on a weird western novella series that I’ll start self-publishing sometime this summer. I’m hoping to have the first book in the series publishedin time for the Shore Leave convention this August.

Aside from the weird western series, I have outlines or plans for several other series in different genres, including space opera, traditional fantasy, paranormal thriller, and a few others...

Welcome, and please excuse the shifting sands

Finally got around to pulling the new blog and website together. This is a work in progress, so please be patient as I pull everything together and continue to add new features and functionality.

And thank you so much for visiting!