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October 23, 2019
Why are we so obsessed with eyes?
Can you tell me what color your coworkers’ eyes are? How about your cousin Andrew’s? What about Matt, the guy you went to high school with that you had a crush on?
Reading a book (that will go unnamed) a while back, I was struck--and not for the first time--by the many ways eyes were described. More so that the description almost always focused on color… and not much else.
I went back to my
Reading a book (that will go unnamed) a while back, I was struck--and not for the first time--by the many ways eyes were described. More so that the description almost always focused on color… and not much else.
I went back to my
October 16, 2019
Cover Reveal: The Boundary Zone
It's finally here, a new book.
Feels like ages since I've had one of those.
(Over two years. Yikes!)
I won’t bore you with all the gritty details of what went on in those two years. Not in this post anyway.
Instead, let’s talk about the book!
Like almost all of my other books, this one takes place in another galaxy, long after Earth is gone and everyone's stopped talking about it except
Feels like ages since I've had one of those.
(Over two years. Yikes!)
I won’t bore you with all the gritty details of what went on in those two years. Not in this post anyway.
Instead, let’s talk about the book!
Like almost all of my other books, this one takes place in another galaxy, long after Earth is gone and everyone's stopped talking about it except
Sneak Peek at THE BOUNDARY ZONE
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A century and a half before I was born, a Kindiran woman warned her race of their coming doom.
Her pleas for caution were met with ridicule.
She offered hope for salvation, but like all legends, interpretation of truth is often impossible until a foretelling comes to fruition.
A two-headed chameleon, born of a false mother…. Those who listened thought her mad.
Electricity crackled
A century and a half before I was born, a Kindiran woman warned her race of their coming doom.
Her pleas for caution were met with ridicule.
She offered hope for salvation, but like all legends, interpretation of truth is often impossible until a foretelling comes to fruition.
A two-headed chameleon, born of a false mother…. Those who listened thought her mad.
Electricity crackled
October 9, 2019
Writing In Bars… And Other Ways To Shake Words Out Of Your Head
There are days where writing is a sisyphean task. Days where I wish I could split myself in twelve to get everything I want to get done completed.Days where I wish I could plug a jack into the base on my skull and do a full cerebral dump… sort out the mess when it’s on a computer screen.Days when that biting little voice tries to eat away at my confidence and tries to convince me I couldn’t
October 2, 2019
If you write, you’re a writer.
I hate when I hear people say they’re “an aspiring writer.”
Because invariably, they’re wrong. They don’t want to be, they already are.
If you write, you’re a writer.
If you’ve written a book (even just a spotty and fractured first draft), you’re an author.
The only way to be an aspiring writer is to never actually try. If you spend all your time thinking about it without ever putting pen to
Because invariably, they’re wrong. They don’t want to be, they already are.
If you write, you’re a writer.
If you’ve written a book (even just a spotty and fractured first draft), you’re an author.
The only way to be an aspiring writer is to never actually try. If you spend all your time thinking about it without ever putting pen to
September 25, 2019
I am still alive. I promise.
I’m just incredibly busy.
But I thought I’d throw out an update, just in case you were worried that I’d literally dropped off the face of the Earth.
So here’s where we’re at right now:
"TBZ" (Due November)
In final edits & formatting
"413" Short Story (Due December)
Second round complete redraft
"SBD" (Due January)
In final edits & Formatting
"GDS" (Due February)
But I thought I’d throw out an update, just in case you were worried that I’d literally dropped off the face of the Earth.
So here’s where we’re at right now:
"TBZ" (Due November)
In final edits & formatting
"413" Short Story (Due December)
Second round complete redraft
"SBD" (Due January)
In final edits & Formatting
"GDS" (Due February)
June 3, 2019
May Numbers 2019
44,042-words in 19 days
(Average: 2,318 words/day)
4 projects* + Admin (2%)
The least writing days in a month so far this year, but checking my previous numbers… it’s the exact number of days from last may.
(Don’t call it) Comicon always throws the pre-memorial day week straight into the trash. This year was worse, because a work trip had me in (snowy?) Denver at the beginning of the week.
(Average: 2,318 words/day)
4 projects* + Admin (2%)
The least writing days in a month so far this year, but checking my previous numbers… it’s the exact number of days from last may.
(Don’t call it) Comicon always throws the pre-memorial day week straight into the trash. This year was worse, because a work trip had me in (snowy?) Denver at the beginning of the week.
May 2, 2019
April Numbers 2019
41,893-words in 25 days(Average: 1,676 words/day)4 projects + Admin (2%)I was quite scattered this past month. I averaged 8,378 per week which isn’t terrible. It just isn’t great. And I did wind up smack dab in the middle of the previous years’ April counts. While I don’t want to make excuses (I’m going to give you one right now), I do think that not having an actual desk at home has been
April 1, 2019
March Numbers 2019
Words Written: 65,494 in 24 days
(Average: 2,729)
9 Projects + Admin (3%)
This month’s word count started out high (the first three weeks I was still playing the full-time-author) and the last two weeks were low (Yay for starting my new day job, though).
I think it’s pretty clear when I went back to work.
I passed the 200k for the year mark, and those benchmarks are always fun.
(Average: 2,729)
9 Projects + Admin (3%)
This month’s word count started out high (the first three weeks I was still playing the full-time-author) and the last two weeks were low (Yay for starting my new day job, though).
I think it’s pretty clear when I went back to work.
I passed the 200k for the year mark, and those benchmarks are always fun.
March 6, 2019
IWSG: March 2019
It’s my Birthday! Well… almost.
I’m the sort of person who claims the whole month once it rolls around. Because I can. It’s like a get out of jail free card… within reason.
One of the things that always comes up around this time of year is someone asking what I want. And that always makes me do the puppy dog head tilt. Because the answer is always going to be books…. I’m good with buying my
I’m the sort of person who claims the whole month once it rolls around. Because I can. It’s like a get out of jail free card… within reason.
One of the things that always comes up around this time of year is someone asking what I want. And that always makes me do the puppy dog head tilt. Because the answer is always going to be books…. I’m good with buying my
