Welcome back to another installment of Nightstand books. Though it’s been a while since the last one, of course that does not mean that there are not books to be talked about and stands to be knighted. While it was good to take a little break to recharge my night light’s batteries (and do some …
In the last installment, I mentioned how my fascination with Choose Your Own Adventure books did not quite blossom into a full blown love of reading. But even if it did not get me there, in many ways it led me into what did, and that’s what I intend to focus on in this article. …
From time to time I do interviews. A lot of times I get the same sorts of questions: talk about your motivation for writing, talk about your books, how you became a writer, your writing process, etc. etc. All of these are great and I enjoy answering them, but recently I was asked about what …
Every writer is also a reader. And every reader’s journey could be depicted by a long, winding stairway of books, each book another step in their literary journey. We are all accumulating our own little mental library whether we are conscious of it or not. This post (and the ones which follow) will offer a glimpse into …
2014 As the end of the year approaches I like to sit back and take the long view, to gaze out over the past twelve months and reflect on where I’ve been as a writer. 2014 was year 2 of kicking the tires on this whole wordsmithing journey. While there were certainly moments where I it felt …
It’s finished! The first draft for Ascent of the Nebula, the third and final installment in my science fiction series, The Chronotrace Sequence is finally done! It’s currently about the same length as Through the Viscera. If the past is any indication, it will probably get a little longer through editing. My goal is always to make it shorter, but my editor …
Every once in a while I’ll be talking to someone and they’ll ask me if my second book is out and I just want to shake my head. Clearly my high-powered marketing campaigns are not doing their job! (Did you know most writers have to do their own marketing? I didn’t, at least not until …
George MacDonald is probably my third favorite author behind Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. I don’t believe anyone was a greater master of the fairy tale than he. He wrote a treasure trove of wonderful stories, all of them infinitely readable, accessible to any audience, young or old, past or present. Of all his work, The Wise Woman …
