Brigid Publishes Singer

I can’t believe how excited I am to report that Brigid, my gifted and magnificent daughter, has released her first book! It’s a YA/Fantasy with SF undertones, titled Singer, and I can say with only the barest of parental bias that it’s a danged good read. You can get it in pretty much any e-format […]

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You Go, Vera!

I’m happy to note that my friend Vera Nazarian’s Kickstarter project “Cobweb Bride” is available early. You can get it in multiple formats here. As a backer, I’ve already picked up my copy, of course. And it’s next on my TBR pile.

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Cobweb Bride Nears

Terribly excited to see that Vera Nazarian’s Cobweb Bride project is nearing release.  Vera’s work is always interesting.  As a backer, I also got to pick out a second work.  I am so lucky!

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“Three Days in May” Launched!

The Indianapolis Motor Speedway opened for practice yesterday, and that can mean only one thing! Yes! Launch day is finally here! John C. Bodin and I are pleased to announce that we’ve made a short anthology of our Indy 500 collaborations available in e-formats. You can find it in these places: Kindle Format All other […]

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Me and My First World Problems

Work (among other things) is kicking my tail this week. That’s what happens when you have two full days of off-site training, I guess. It’s all good, though. I guess. I also went to a local writer’s group session, wherein I passed back a read of Bill Johnson’s next novel. His first, Earth 2.0: Prison […]

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Collaborating Again!

John Bodin and I are, once again, committing collaboration on another piece inspired by the Indy 500. These are great fun to write. First, I think John’s a great idea guy, and so that’s just fun to be around. Second, writing about the 500 reminds me of my grandfather, who made his living running a […]

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Splitting Stories and a Note From Philip K. Dick

I’ve spent the last couple mornings working to restructure episodes 6 and 7 into a short story and a short novella (perhaps even dropping it into novelette territory–though we will see). It was a bit difficult to concentrate to concentrate this morning, though. First, I woke up considerably later this morning than normal (the cat […]

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Confidence and Assurance

I grabbed this list of Joss Whedon’s writing tips from another place–someone’s twitter or Facebook page–a day or three ago, and thought it was great (of course). Then I followed the link at its bottom to these tips from Neil Gaiman, which are equally full of tremendous, but even more so. The reason I say […]

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Writing Short Stories — Novel Prep, or Not?

It was a big basketball weekend, of course. My Cardinals of Louisville are riding high, and seem to be a reasonable favorite to win it all. Lots of good teams out there, though, far too much competition left to get particularly cocky. # Myke Cole, a writing acquaintance of mine who I recently met in […]

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