Editorial Demand
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 – Lords of the Remnant
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 …
Is The Advance You’ve Been Offered Good Enough?
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 …
Funny How Things Work Out
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 …
Cutting Back
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 …
A Series Of Fascinating Events
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 …
A Pub-ing I Will Go
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 …
Sample Sunday – Passing in the Night
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 …
And Now, A Word From Our Sponsor…
…the sponsor being my wife, of course. She has a small business where she hand-crafts cools items to help out moms and little kids: blankets, burp cloths, floor cushions, coffee cozies, that sort of thing. Obviously, I think her stuff …
No Dice
Well, I heard from Clarkesworld this evening. No dice on publishing Lords of the Remnant with them. That’s not really unexpected, considering how many submissions they get each month. But still, it’s not as fun as hearing they loved it …