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August 12, 2014
Story-telling: to go long or to go short
If I may blow the punchline short stories aren’t long enough. Not long enough to develop a character, not long enough to have a fully resolved conflict, not long enough to fully unveil a world. They’re fun, and I’ve read some good ones, but for this writer, they just don’t have enough calories. Or I […]
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August 9, 2014
What marathoning taught me about life and writing
About one of the most painfully life-changing things I’ve ever done is to take up marathoning. In the end, plagued by a varied array of injuries, after running four misery-riddled races, I opted for shorter distances. I still go running a few miles here and there, during which I manage to clear my head and […]
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August 7, 2014
Introducing the Tracking Jane Series
By early fall of 2014 I will release a new series of stories following Jane McMurtry, an injured Army veteran who has spent her adult life training warrior dogs and partnering with them to find bombs and track missing soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jane comes home having suffered grievous injuries during an IED explosion. […]
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August 5, 2014
Don’t Count Your Words; Make Your Words Count
Recently, I’ve enjoyed magical days during which I’ve clocked ten thousand or more words. This blessed outpouring came during my recently released Decisive Moment and has taken place again during my ongoing work on episodes 1 and 2 of my Tracking Jane series. Trouble is, this doesn’t always happen. Sometimes I barely squeeze out five […]
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August 4, 2014
About the Our Cyber World Series
Starting with DEAD BEEF, and expanding with Pink Ballerina, Decisive Moment and Active Shooter, the Our Cyber World series explores a complex world as conveyed through the different points of view and voices each story’s leading characters offer. Rather than applying a straight sequel-prequel chronological story structure, this series follows a paralellequel approach. That means […]
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July 31, 2014
The Art of Flashback: instantaneous, intense illumination
In both my reading and writing, I’ve always struggled with flashbacks. As a reader, I’ve trudged through my fair share of voluminous, interminable flashbacks, wondering when I’m getting back into present action, and quite honestly, at times feeling like I’m in a lecture hall while my professor/author data-dumps all he knows about a situation and/or […]
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July 30, 2014
Decisive Moment gets a new cover
Just wanted to drop a quick note about Decisive Moment, namely about its cover which I decided to spiff up a bit. These are shown below, new and old, and in case you haven’t checked it out yet, I include a brief description of the story. If you want a fast, character-based read, check out […]
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July 26, 2014
Concise Writing in Random Tweetable thoughts
Will Twitter help your writing? By that I mean the act of writing, the craft, as opposed to the ability to promote your writing through a stream of hashtags, links, faves and re-tweets. Will expressing yourself 140 characters at a time over-constrain your ability to convey your thoughts, will it stifle your vision? Or will […]
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July 23, 2014
What Indie Publishing and Signal Processing Theory Have in Common
In case you haven’t heard, indie publishing is cheapening literature. As the claim goes, the proliferation of self-published work and the lowering of the bar for what gets published create a cacophony of noise that threatens to drown out good books and their authors. This will drive down the quality of all published books, suppress […]
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July 21, 2014
Active Shooter and Decisive Moment now available through iBooks and Nook
For those of you resisting the Amazon Kindle juggernaut, I’m pleased to announce that both Active Shooter and Decisive moment are now available through the iBook and Nook online eBook stores. If you have one of those non-Amazon eReaders, check out these eBooks. Oh, and did I forget to mention that Active Shooter is free? […]
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