I’m taking a break to catch up on some stuff this afternoon, and I’m quite pleased to show you the cover to 2113, an anthology of stories based on songs by Rush. You may remember that this volume will include a short story of mine titled “A Patch of Blue” (which is based on the […]
Read More ...Author Archive: Ron Collins
Wanted, Dead or Alive: Info on the SF Community in Tucson …
A month ago I posted about my planning process. In it, I wrote this: A plan is just a plan. It is, by its very nature, the one way you can pretty much guarantee your project will not actually happen. I mean, seriously here … something is guaranteed to go wrong. Something will happen in […]
Read More ...The Walking Dead
Perhaps the biggest change in my life since I started writing full-time has been the fact that I generally sleep 7-8 hours a night. It turns out that this is a huge deal. I mean, it’s a major, big-assed deal. Yes, back when I worked the corporate desk I read all the scientific studies that […]
Read More ...A walk in the rain
Is it wrong to whistle "singing in the rain" when you are actually just walking in it? — Ron Collins (@roncollins13) July 10, 2015 Yes, I took a walk in the rain yesterday. Yes, in the rain. A walk. Totally. By this I mean that it was raining when I left the house and rained […]
Read More ...My somewhat insane work planning process
Brandon Crilley recently linked me into a post he did about planning his writing activity during the summer period (he supports his writing habit by being a teacher in the real world, so he has to use his “down time” as efficiently as possible). I responded that I would write a post about my somewhat […]
Read More ...Five Things I’ve Learned, +1
A couple days ago, I found myself reading Martin Shoemaker’s blog, wherein he discussed what he’s learned over the past few years. I got to thinking about that question. I’ve been doing this for … well … a long while, now. My bibliography says I was first published in October of 1994. You can do […]
Read More ...“The Colossal Death Ray” hits Galaxy’s Edge.
Very happy to note that my story “The Colossal Death Ray” is the lead story in this issue of Galaxy’s Edge. This story is actually a bit of a favorite of mine because it came to me in what was essentially a single sitting (with another pass or two rub out some raw edges here […]
Read More ...Leadership, and the need to “prove yourself”
As we often do while we walk together, Lisa and I were recently talking about the framework that work happens in under in the corporate environment. At some point we talked about the fact that there is this need to prove oneself upon entry into a new environment before a person is accepted, and along […]
Read More ...A day in the Northern Guard
Advance Notice This is a very long post about my day with the Northern Guard—a supporter group associated with the Detroit City Football Club. Given the general tone of my blog and the readers I generally attract, I feel the need to tell you that, while it is certainly possible to write a post about […]
Read More ...5 Days, finally a NookBook
Yes, I know it’s hard to believe, but now … only a month after its release date, 5 Days in May, the Indy 500 anthology of stories by me and John Bodin is available from Barnes and Noble. Why so long? Well … your guess is as good as mine.
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