The difficulty I’ve had writing in recent weeks is prompting me to take a new approach: focus on drabbles. What are drabbles, you ask? I discovered in a post from four years ago, when I wrote my drabble, that its roots are not the author Margaret Drabble, but rather Monty […]
Writing on the train is never easy because I often feel that folks around me are looking at the words. Such is the case now. So be it. It is long past due to get back to writing. Spurred by the death of a friend, I am devoting the year […]
“The Ragged Astronauts” shows how plot, characterization, world building and foreshadowing can all be conveyed in the very first page of a genre novel. Now we move forward to the first actual interactions between the characters. We learned on that first page that the POV character, Toller Maraquine, see fools […]
Found last year in a used bookstore, “The Ragged Astronauts” caught my attention because its author, the Irish writer Bob Shaw, was responsible for the seminal sf short story Light of Other Days (which you can read here). I had never read any of Shaw’s novels, and the cover of “The […]
After a year of questioning my desire and dedication to writing, it is time than to get back to the business. I am launching the planning phase of a series of fantasy/steampunk series of novels. The planning will consist of a) world building and b) detailed outlining. I expect this planning […]
Lord Bart and the Leagues of SIP and ALE is just about ready to go. I’m hoping to have it ready in a variety of formats by mid-May. And — I am happy to offer free advance reader copies to anyone who believes they can a) put it at the […]
My four-years-in-the-making novel is finally ready to enter the gaping maw of eBook self-publishing, likely never to be heard from again.* Last week I completed one final round of minor edits and proclaimed the damn thing finished. I’m not changing another word (barring undiscovered typos). Why did this take four […]
My Kindle Scout campaign has wrapped up — and now I get to sit back and (anxiously) wait for an answer from Amazon editors. But yea or nay, it was a great 30 days. The campaign culminated on Wednesday, 1/6/15, when the bloggers at Out of the Park Developments published […]
The Kindle Scout campaign for my novel has now entered its second week. Week One was fairly successful because during most of that time my book was highlighted in the “Hot and Trending” category. I’ve never been hot and trending on the internet before. In fact, I’ve never been hot and trending […]
Friends, I ask for a favor that should only take a minute or two of your time. My novel, “Lord Bart and the Leagues of SIP and ALE,” is now entered in Amazon’s “Kindle Scout” program — and I need you to nominate it. How does it work? The Kindle […]
