Heigh ho, heigh ho, it’s off to Six Degrees we go! This week we once again hop from book to book and character to character as the mysterious, circuitous path known as Six Degrees of Kool Books continues. In the last link in the chain, Jenelle Schmidt introduced us to the multi-volume, history spanning world of …
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 …
Today I am pleased to introduce to my readers Julie Gilbert, author of multiple novels, many of which are “imaginative” fiction as I like to call it. She and I are both members of an online group of authors committed to writing “clean” books, i.e.those which focus on the good, the true, and the beautiful. …
I’m excited to bring you another Nightstand Books post this month. Especially excited this time because I’ve got books to share this month that I am actually currently reading! While both Phantastes and the Hobbit qualify as “old” books for me, meaning that I’ve already read them before, I recently picked them up again and this …
Time for another spin on the merry-go-round of literature known as Six Degrees of Kool Books. This week, we’ll spin our way from one snowy land to another. From the book, Treasures in the Snow, which Jenelle Schmidt talked about last week to the frozen lands of Russia with The Brothers Karamazov. While I have not had the pleasure of …
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 …
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” – Kurt Vonnegut
Today I thought I’d share a little bit about something I’ve been working on recently. It’s a short story (currently about 50 pages) entitled, “A City Called Brazen”. It started out as a science fiction story in my head, but when I sat down to write it, it became a fantasy story instead. It takes place in a …
