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October 31, 2017
A Halloween Story for Video Game Lovers
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
If you’re looking for a delightful little Halloween treat, check out my urban fantasy story, Magick Mirror. Originally written for a Halloween anthology and inspired by Super Nintendo RPGs, it takes place in high school, where our hero’s unusual attire on the the school bus on Halloween morning is mistaken for a costume.
And he can’t tell anyone, because the game his life has become now has consequences.
Maybe reading that will help keep your hand out of the candy jar—at lea...
October 30, 2017
One of those days…
Well shit, today was just one of those days where it seemed like everything was going against me.
Got locked out of a password tool this morning due to a stupid auto-fill by the OTHER password tool. Lost 30 minutes there trying to get back in. No luck.
Then something in my standing desk electronics got messed up, so the desk will only move down now. *sigh* Lost 15 minutes trying to fix that and then gave up. Still need to look into it.
And tonight the overhead interior light in my Jeep Wrangl...
October 29, 2017
Quick note
Just a quick note to hold the streak. I spent the whole day building a fence and am more physically exhausted than I’ve been in months. No new words today but I will get back on track tomorrow. The fence is looking awesome though. Photos when it’s done!
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October 28, 2017
Busy Saturday
Spent the first part of today reading and writing. Doing sprints online with a writer friend, I managed 1200 words on Translocator 3 and even got to the gym before 1pm.
Then, after lunch, I did some marketing for my books—setting up new advertising and making images to use in some of the ads. Here’s one of them, as an example (these are for BookBub ads).
And lastly, my dad and I are replacing the chainlink fence at my house with a wooden fence. So he came over, we ripped out some of the chai...
October 27, 2017
It’s Stranger Things Season 2 Day!
Can’t talk right now.
REAL. BUSY.
Watching Stranger Things Season 2, that is.
Source: Business Insider
And the final trailer, if you haven’t seen it yet.
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October 26, 2017
Reading: Half a King
Why on Earth did it take me so long to crack open a Joe Abercrombie novel?
I burned through Half a King in two days, reeling and obsessed.
A “fast-paced tale of betrayal and revenge,” as George R.R. Martin puts it on the cover, this fantasy novel is swift, dark, subtle, cunning, and brutal.
Half a King tells the story of Yarvi, second son of the king of Gettland, who was born with a crippled left hand. With half a hand and the scorn of his family, he feels like half a man, and is stunned whe...
October 25, 2017
The scariest moment…
“The scariest moment is always just before you start. After that, things can only get better.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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October 24, 2017
Last chance at two free SFF book giveaways
Greetings, goblins and gremlins!
It’s been another day in the word mines for yours truly, with not much news to share, so I’m choosing to take this blessed moment of calm to remind you that this is the last opportunity to receive six free ebooks, and enter to win two different bundles of paperbacks for your home library.
One offers prizes in multiple packages, all awesome indie books, all signed by the authors.
The other is a collection of 52 bestselling paperback books from the top science f...
October 23, 2017
Cycling back with Translocator 3
I’m in a weird place with the current draft of Translocator 3 — right at the end of the first act, just over 20,000 words written so far, and trying to get everything into its proper place for the setup before I move on into the middle of the novel.
As a result of a few mistakes I made while writing what I’ve got on the page so far, I had to go back to the beginning and read through twice as I cleaned some things up and made necessary changes. I changed the role/title of a character. I alter...
October 22, 2017
Zatarain’s
I once asked a friend, a chef who had spent years living in New Orleans, what he thought the local secret to delicious New Orlean’s style jambalaya was.
“Everyone makes it different,” he said. “That’s why it’s called JUMBLE-aya.”
I snorted and pretended to straighten a stack of plates. We were standing in the long, open kitchen of the restaurant during a quiet night. He leaned forward across the prep station to hear me.
“Okay, how about this…What’s the best jambalaya you ever had?”
“My aunt’s...
