Back in 1993, before I went to work in Corporate America, I worked in the civil service Navy. When I left, the command threw many parties—all of which I assumed were to honor me, though some of which may well have been for other reasons.(grin) One of the gifts that one of my co-workers gave […]
Read More ...Author Archive: Ron Collins
Dare to Be Good
In the middle of everything else going on, Lisa Silverthorne and I have embarked on a short story dare. For the past six weeks, each Monday we’ve alternated giving ourselves a prompt, and written stories (due midnight Sunday). This process is modeled after Heinlein’s Rules, and was advocated by Dean Wesley Smith back in the […]
Read More ...Cover Reveal!
As I’ve mentioned, the the cool folks at the Uncollected Anthology invited me to play in their urban fantasy sandbox this quarter. This has been outstanding fun because it led me to write in a sub-genre I’ve often read but never really attempted before–yes, my friends, Ron Collins took his shot at playing with the […]
Read More ...Purple Rain
So, yeah. Prince. I know. He did stuff before Purple Rain and a whole lot of stuff after Purple Rain. He was more than his music. But I want to talk about Purple Rain because … well … I’ve always had this weird relationship to Prince and his music. If you’re reading this on my […]
Read More ...What do you do about piracy?
TLDR Version: Ron’s Basic Piracy Policy: If you are struggling financially, if the idea of spending the price of a book gives you that ugly feeling down in the pit of your stomach and that feeling driving you to go to the pirate sites for free books, send me a note (ron*at*typosphere.com) telling me what […]
Read More ...“Really” “felt” the “was”
Wherein Ron shows you some of his not so tricky tricks on how he makes his prose “better” and proves it with (of course) data … ’cause, I’m a numbers nerd at heart, you know? — Today I’m going to use the 27K novella (*) I’ve recently finished to discuss a few “simple” things one […]
Read More ...Workload and the Writer
So, yeah … remember that thing about how quitting the day job to write full time will help with the work load? Not happening. This writing gig, it turns out, is just about the same as any project-oriented corporate job I’ve ever had—the multitude of projects overlap forever, and the base skillset for “surviving” is […]
Read More ...Uncollected Anthology Podcast
I’m a few days late dropping this, but I saw the Uncollected Anthology folks did a pretty cool little podcast with Mark-the-Kobo-guy (grin) a bit ago. As I noted before, (*) I’ll be their May issue guest, so I thought you might enjoy hearing the leaders of the band talk about it for a bit. […]
Read More ...Check out KEXP …
I listen to a lot of music while I write. Today I tied into KEXP.org’s Youtube channel. > Here are three interesting and brilliant sessions that prove those arguments … inappropriate. * Start with any of them, and just let the chain roll. You could do a lot worse than just setting it on KEXP […]
Read More ...Kobo makes Hidden in Crime free to you!
Get a copy of Fiction River: Hidden in Crime, complete with my Derringer nominated story “The White Game”, FOR FREE at Kobo! 1) Go to the link above 2) Click “ADD TO CART” then go to your shopping cart 3) If you don’t have an existing Kobo account, enter your payment info (or, select PayPal […]
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