Welcome once again to Six Degrees of Kool books, the series/game where we look for connections between the characters of disparate books on a serendipitous, literary trail into the unknown. If you’d like to find out more about how it all works and the list of all the past books in this series, check out …
Oh my, I’m doing the Alice in Wonderland rabbit trick this week, running a little late on my Nightstand post. They are supposed to go out on the first Wednesday of the month, but this week I’ve been fairly frazzled with home improvement projects. I barely noticed the calendar change, that’s how out of it …
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott My rating: 5 of 5 stars What a lovely book. Turning the pages of this one was simply a joy and I was sad when I had to put it down, the mark of a truly wonderful tale. The story revolves around the four March girls and their mother …
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 …
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. …
I’d like to share a few thoughts on Facebook today. As you might be able to guess from the image, they are not going to be all that positive. A lot of authors are on Facebook. Many of them attribute the success of launching their careers to the wide reach of this social media platform. Long established …
I’ve been working on the third book in The Chronotrace Sequence for quite some time now and I thought I’d pull back the curtain and talk a little bit about out that today. The title for Chronotrace book 3 is Ascent of the Nebula. That might not seem too obvious a title based on the first two books in the …
So what’s the word in author land? I don’t do these too often, but I thought I’d post a little update on how things are going with writing, both on the artistic and on the business side. From a financial standpoint, this summer has been anything but a success. Through the Viscera only sold a handful of …
