Quote: Fear is Like a Rocking Chair
Worried about tomorrow? Today’s troubles clouding your thoughts? Here’s a great reminder for you. “Fear is like rocking in a giant rocking chair. It involves a great deal of work and doesn’t get you anywhere.”
A Reader’s Journey: Part 1
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 …
The Tapestry Poem
Recently I was driving around, running errands, when I heard a poem being recited on the radio. Not a very common occurrence these days. But what a blessing that I can be moving around town and hear words of wisdom, written by another person, and recited by yet another person which have somehow traveled through …
Looking Back: Year 2 in the Books
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 …
Quote: Fantasy is Hardly an Escape
Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It’s a way of understanding it. – Lloyd Alexander
Update on Ascent: First Draft Done!
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 …
How to not miss out on new releases
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 …
Review for Signed Sealed Delivered
Lost letters, foundering dreams, drowning destinies. Sometimes we get to points in life where we wonder if we aren’t missing something or if our lives would not have been different had we said this or not said that. Such is the underlying premise of “Signed, Sealed, Delivered”, a TV show about four postal workers in a Colorado …
