“Digging at Bones” is free on this website for this week only. It was originally published in Boundary Shock Quarterly, edited by Blaze Ward. If you’d like a copy of your own, you can get it from online retailers or get a copy directly from me right here. I hope you enjoy it! Martel is […]

(Wherein We Take a Survey) I spend an hour a day invested in something related to AI. Often more than an hour. By “invested in” I mean anything from listening to people discuss how they use it, absorbing news and opinion, scanning different people’s output (sometimes on purpose, other times not), and using the tools […]

Welcome to Summerween! I’m really pleased to announce a project that Brigid and I have been working on for some time now: Halloween Hearts. We’ll be releasing it first on Kickstarter, starting September 1st, with the goal of getting it into backer’s hands in time to sit on the porch and do some great reading […]

I spend a lot of time watching the business world surrounding Independent Publishing. This won’t surprise anyone who knows me. I’m a moderately analytical person, and I’m a pure case of an independently published writer—meaning there’s no one here but me. For many of us, the most important word in the phrase Independent Publishing is […]

(or, how do you become great?) A few days ago, the Las Vegas Aces played the Seattle Storm in a WNBA matchup. The Aces won, which was good for me because, if you’ve followed me much, you know I’ve become a big fan of the W and the Aces in particular. I was lucky enough […]

(Or, It’s Time to Change the Plan(ning Method!)) As is my lot in life, I have once again realized that I’m chasing too many projects at once. How does this happen? Yes, that’s a rhetorical question. All I can say is that this summer is going to be super active, and I’ll need to find […]

I came across M. H. Woodscourt’s book Song of the Lost on Kickstarter because, as I was scanning the site, I noticed the portal on the book cover. This caught my eye because, as readers of the PEBA Diaries will know, in that series, I play with a baseball shaman and multiple dimensions. As one […]

I’m getting excited again. Working a ton of hours on little details and sweating bullets because I can never quite get things exactly like I want them. So … yeah … you’ve got it down. It all adds up to mean that I’m pushing work on a new Kickstarter that will feature For the Heart […]

(And, Um, Thank the Powers I’m an Indie?) Anyway…on with the post! Sometimes life is a real jokester. This wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t celebrate the fact by laughing maniacally at you as it whizzes past on its way right-on down the road. I can say this because it was about this time […]

A Quick Note: Yeah, I’m still working to hit a normal cycle for these thoughts. I missed the last one on purpose, though. I was heads-down and plowing hard to hit a deadline for a book that I’ll be talking about Real Soon Now. In the meantime, here are some thoughts I’m having this morning. […]