I’ve already explained in this series of posts how I almost always use music from soundtracks to write to. And while that usually means movie soundtracks, such is not the case with this week’s song. I’d wager that at least some of the people reading this will have never heard the theme song from the …
Well, my oh my, the first Wednesday of the month has come and gone with no post about Nightstand Books. There are a variety of reasons for this. First and chief offender was that I completely spaced that it was a new month. Somehow in my scattered recollection of time I completely missed the …
I’m running through my playlist of the top five songs to write to and, as I mentioned before, it’s all songs from soundtracks and all instrumental songs at that. My number four song comes from a movie that is actually based on a book which I’ve reviewed and which I thoroughly enjoy and that is …
The Jammer and the Blade was the first novella I released, but it has struggled to garner much attention. Maybe I’m just a glutton for punishment, but I thought I’d give it one last college try by giving it a new cover. The past covers both had their merits, but I think this is the closest …
I always write to music. I write on a laptop so I always have a selection of songs at the ready, but there are really only a handful that I typically write to. Usually it will be an album, but sometimes it will just be a single song on repeat. I only use instrumental music. …
Friendly dragons? They’re not unheard of in books these days. And that’s just the sort of character Jenelle described in last week’s “Six Degrees of Kool Books”, the magical game where we get to see which character from one book reminds us of a character from another book. Kazul was described as “kind and good-hearted…excellent to have on …
Here’s a newsy update for what lies ahead for the Summer of 2014. Most of this I also shared in my newsletter, so if you’re not signed up for that and you’d like to be informed about stuff like this, be sure to sign up for that. Last week I finished working through the updated …
One thing I’ve learned in this series is that both of these franchises are so vast and have so many facets to them that it really is nigh impossible to do justice to either of them. Consequently, anyone who reads this should know that my focus is primarily on the original incarnations of these series. …
