August Wrap-Up
August has been a pretty good month. I didn’t get as many new words written as in July. To be honest, I’m not sure exactly how many words I wrote, truth to tell. I don’t generally tally them up month …
August has been a pretty good month. I didn’t get as many new words written as in July. To be honest, I’m not sure exactly how many words I wrote, truth to tell. I don’t generally tally them up month …
Passive Guy linked yesterday to an appalling example of ignorant pessimism. Read it, if you have a strong stomach, and a strong tolerance for BS. I can’t fully express how idiotic this speech, or whatever it is, is. The guy goes …
I got the editor’s feedback on Masters yesterday morning. Good stuff! I spent a good chunk of the day, and an hour and a half late at night, moving her corrections and tweaks from the .rtf file she sent me …
Sample Sunday again. 🙂 This week, an excerpt from Lords of the Remnant, a science fiction story about an alien invasion. Here it is: They came at dawn, a streaming mass of bodies falling from the sky. As with everything …
The other day I wrote about my consternation over a thread on Kindleboards about whether or not an indie writer should use an agent to help negotiate the deal if publishers come knocking on the writer’s door. My thesis is …
So I went to KDP tonight to see how sales are going. The answer: pretty well, for my first real month of sales (I don’t count the months with just Damsel and Falling Softly because, well, I’m not…). Still, the …
Ok, I put this post under the category “douchebaggery”. Unfortunately, that douchebaggery applies to me this time. On Friday evening, I got into a bit of an argument over on the Kindleboards. The argument centered around whether a successful indie …
Man, it’s been a very interesting day in the news. Riots in England, Presidential doldrums, Stock market zig-zags…and two articles about Apple. First, there’s this one, which announces the kick-off of Amazon’s new kindle cloud reader. So how cool is …
I’ve not done much writing in the last week. Partly that’s because I’ve just been having a bunch of fun with my family. But also it’s because I spent the week practicing covers and getting a bunch of my stories …
It’s Sunday, so it’s time for a sample. 🙂 This excerpt is from my hard science fiction novelette, Passing in the Night. Those who know me may recall that this is the story that got an Honorable Mention from Writers …