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7 Essential Takeaways on Building Your Writing Platform / Foundation

If you’re considering getting into the self publishing game, you’re going to need to build your writing platform, and you need to begin today. Platforms take years to nurture, grow and harvest, so you’ll need to be diligent. What is a Writers Platform?While it’s known as a platform, I like to think of it as […]

I was Interviewed at Daily Steampunk, Check it Out

Today I was interviewed at Traveler’s Steampunk Blog (aka Daily-Steampunk) on the subject of Discovering Aberration. He asked me about my influences, Steampunk, and about the Lovecraftian twist in DA. Swing on over and leave a comment if you’re interested! Here’s a quick preview: What got you into writing? I think there were two books in particular […]

Interview with Zachary Bonelli Author of Insomnium

I’m thrilled today to have the opportunity to interview fellow Seattle area author Zachary Bonelli. He is the fantastic writer of the episodic sci-fi series Voyage: Embarkation, and has a brand new sci-fi series which is just underway called Insomnium ostensibly set in Seattle, but mostly taking place in the paradoxically freakish City of Nowhere. […]

Make Time to Follow Your Dreams

Time is a commodity everyone is given. Unfortunately, most of us squander it in our own favorite ways. Me, I waste time playing video games and watching movies. The thing is we all lead busy lives and when we get home all we want to do is sit down and relax. Unfortunately, that’s not how […]

The Best, Coolest & Sexiest Steampunk Clothing & Costumes

I’m going to celebrate two things I love today Halloween and Steampunk. What better way than to feature this years best steampunk clothing and costumes as worn around the internet throughout the week. I’ve scoured the dusty corners of the steam-powered internet tubes to bring you the following awesome examples of steampunk fashion. If you […]

15 Hillarious, Insightful & Moving Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut is one of the few authors I discovered in high school and still love to this day. Perhaps the soul other is Orson Scott Card. There were other authors who I still think of fondly, some who even inspired me, but none who I feel compelled to revisit again and again, each time […]

Podcast #1. Pre-Orders, Bugout Bags, & Get The Gringo

Last week I finally joined the smartphone band wagon. That’s right, I’ve been living without a smartphone for years now (THE HUMANITY!!!) Actually it didn’t bother me at all, but when work offered me a free iphone, I happily hopped on board. What was the first thing I did? I started a podcast! So here’s […]

The Top 100 Best Selling Sci-Fi Novels of All Time [61-70]

Welcome to part 4 of the best selling science fiction novels of all time and the stellar quotes that accompany them. I took a couple weeks off from this series, but today we are back in business. Every week I’ll be sharing 10 of the top selling 100 sci-fi novels of all time along with the significant quotes that made them the […]

Tiny Time Machines: A reminder to live in the moment

Time is such a strange thing. The older we get, the more importance we place on time. We manage our time, we focus on punctuality, otherwise time slips out of our hands, we lost track of time. When we’re bored, time feels like wading through a pool of molasses. When we’re having fun, time races […]

How to hold your self-published novel to traditionally published standards

Today I published a post on Medium.com called How to Hold Your Self-Published Novel to Traditionally Published Standards. Here’s a preview: These days there’s no reason to settle for anything less than the best when self-publishing your masterpiece. Here’s how I did it, and you can too… When I set out to publish my manuscript I […]