I came across M. H. Woodscourt’s book Song of the Lost on Kickstarter because, as I was scanning the site, I noticed the portal on the book cover. This caught my eye because, as readers of the PEBA Diaries will know, in that series, I play with a baseball shaman and multiple dimensions. As one […]

I’m getting excited again. Working a ton of hours on little details and sweating bullets because I can never quite get things exactly like I want them. So … yeah … you’ve got it down. It all adds up to mean that I’m pushing work on a new Kickstarter that will feature For the Heart […]

(And, Um, Thank the Powers I’m an Indie?) Anyway…on with the post! Sometimes life is a real jokester. This wouldn’t be so bad if it didn’t celebrate the fact by laughing maniacally at you as it whizzes past on its way right-on down the road. I can say this because it was about this time […]

A Quick Note: Yeah, I’m still working to hit a normal cycle for these thoughts. I missed the last one on purpose, though. I was heads-down and plowing hard to hit a deadline for a book that I’ll be talking about Real Soon Now. In the meantime, here are some thoughts I’m having this morning. […]

I’ve been writing a lot about the act of coming out of a funk. My book On Being (And Becoming Again!) A Writer was all about that, and if you’re in my sphere, you’d probably have to be living under a rock to have not heard me say something about it. I mean. I may […]

I’m going to talk about readers today. I promise I am. But first… It’s no secret that I’m a fan of the WNBA. One can debate and disagree, of course, but for my taste, when it comes to basketball, the women’s game is just a better product. I don’t mean the players are faster, stronger, […]

(or, 2026 — The Year of the Reader) Note: I released this on Patreon almost on time…then messed up and forgot to push it here. Sorry for the delay., but it just stands a proof that it’s just me in here. [grin] Regardless, given how fast the world is moving, maybe it’s even more interesting […]

I’m not sure what to talk about today. There’s so much going on around me, and my brain isn’t settled into whatever a “normal” cycle is—partly because I’ve recently been absorbing a lot of information about writing from a lot of different sources. One might think paying attention to a lot of writers is good […]

A few weeks back, I came across information that said Dan Brown, the bestselling thriller author, does not read fiction. I thought that was interesting because the rule of thumb beaten into us is that writers must read. It’s a rule of thumb that seems so obvious as to be barely worth arguing about, but […]

(Or, Taking the Read Indie Pledge) (A quick note here to say that I’m settling into a cycle where I’ll be able to manage three posts a month. Earlier I was targeting one a week, but one every ten days is more sustainable—meaning it’s a pace I find a bit more fun because it lets […]