Just a quick update today. I’ve been keeping a pretty steady pace on the writing front. I’ve finished the second draft for my 50 page fantasy short story Brazen and I’m a quarter of the way through the second draft for my upcoming fantasy novel The Last Motley. This book was actually written two years ago, but I …
Well, I hadn’t planned on writing anything today, but Jenelle Schmidt challenged me to the 777 writing challenge and, like any would-be knight errant in training, I cannot resist a good challenge, can I? Here’s how the 777 writing challenge works. To participate, a writer must go to the 7th page of their current work-in-progress, go to the …
I have some great news to share today. The last draft for Ascent of the Nebula, the third and final book in The Chronotrace Sequence has been finished and the manuscript sent off to the editor. And while I still have to wait to see what redactorial ramifications ensue, I’m optimistic because this one was my smoothest …
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 …
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 …
Yesterday I announced that my booktrack for Into the Vast was available and I wanted to share briefly my initial Booktrack results (for more on what Booktrack is, see my original post). Honestly, I didn’t expect a whole lot of response because it was more or less an experiment. But I’ve been thrilled by the amount of …
