Here’s something Lisa dropped my way a bit ago, and I just thought was pretty danged cool. Why didn’t they have these when I was a kid? Of course, Brigid, having been a swinging enthusiast when she was a young’un, may never have come home if she had found one of these. Share Me
Read More ...A Night at the Virtual Post Office
So I sat here in front of the TV most of the night sending stories over the ethereal transom. This is a bit of work. I mean, no one who knows I write ever asks about how much time it takes to do the non-writing part of this stuff. I suppose you could just throw […]
Read More ...The Latest Shootings
Like everyone else paying any attention, I’m struggling with the fall-out of the latest shootings. I say latest because it’s clear there will be more. My thoughts on the whole subject are gaining more strength as I think about it and as I read and learn more. I tend to not take a firm position […]
Read More ...Publisher’s Weekly Mentions “The Collector”
Here’s a nice little blurb for one of my stories. Beats a sharp stick in the eye, as my uncle used to say. Share Me
Read More ...Five Magics Released!
I am happy to announce the release of Five Magics a new collection of my fantasy short stories in multiple e-versions: For the Kindle at Amazon.com All other formats at Smashwords The collection includes five previously published stories. I don’t write that much fantasy in short form these days, but, as you’ll learn below, they […]
Read More ...“The Collector” Appears in Mercedes Lackey’s Elemental Masters Anthology
I’m terribly excited to note that Elemental Magic, an anthology edited by Mercedes Lackey, has been released–including my story “The Collector.” It’s available at this link in both Kindle and print versions. I’ll see about getting alternate links up for other versions in the next day or two. The anthology consists of nineteen stories in […]
Read More ...My Next Big Thing: Wakers
I’m a little late on this, but I’ve been busy on NaNoWriMo. Yes, life is tough. Anyway, a local writer, Paul Hoffman, invited me to participate in a My Next Big Thing blog tour. Paul is a local guy (assuming you live–like I do–in Columbus, Indiana, anyway), and he’s written A Murder in Wautosa, a […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 30 – It’s Done!
Wakers “finishes” NaNoWriMo at a final tally of 51, 735. I added about a thousand words this evening, but also killed about 500 others. Ultimately the last, say, 2000 words are really a coarse outline of the end of the story. So it’s a stretch to say it’s really “done.” But it’s done enough for […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 30 … 50K!
Morning Update (7:23) – A tad over 2K this morning brings me to well over 51K for the month, which means … I “win!” The story stands at present at 51,493 words, and I’m thinking it really needs about 2K more. My experience with making my own estimates, though, is that this means I’ll need […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 29
Morning Update (5:47 AM) – About 500 words this AM. Yippee. I knew it was going to be a sparse morning because work has made a special call, and I’ll be heading it early for a day-long session. These things are particularly wearing because you have to concentrate all day–unlike a usual office day where […]
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