Happy New Year, and all that. I’ll have a bit more to drop here about that later today or tomorrow, but for now it’s nice to start the year by noting Kobo has included Starflight as part of their 2020 Buy On Get on Free promotion. Hey, 77 kind reviews can’t be wrong, right? Depending […]
Yesterday, I wrote about Bob Jeschonek. Today I wanted to take a jag off in another direction and talk about Albert Sisson. Where Bob is a “throw it all out there” kind of a writer, Albert is a guy with a little distance to his work—and into that distance falls a dollop of sarcasm and […]
As far as reading goes, I figure the over-under at three Jeschoneks. I mean it this way: If you read one story from Robert Jeschonek you’ll probably say “What the hell was that?” Another Jeschonek will have you tied up in knots and saying, “Holy crap, this guy lives in a different world.” It’s the […]
Collins spins an intriguing tale in “The Robin Club” with a little bit of every genre mixed in. Tara Grímravn of Tangent Online seems to have liked “The Robin Club” pretty well–as well as several other stories in the Superstitions edition of Fiction River it appears in. Always a good day when that happens, eh? […]
All, right, the truth is that Amazing Monster Tales #2 has been out for about two weeks. Here I am, though, running my classic “delay of game” cycle. And it’s a shame, really. This is a fun project being run by Jaime Ferguson and DeAnna Kippling, and filled with a great collection of writers (and […]
Now, here’s a fascinating chart. Really, even though it takes a moment absorb, it speaks a novel’s worth about where we are right now. The data comes from the Federal Reserve, and shows how much of the country’s wealth has been owned by each generation over time. I found it because it’s a moderately popular […]
I admit I don’t really know much about John F. Kennedy, except, of course, that he was young and controversial, and that he was shot and killed on this day in November of 1963. I know that he’s generally thought of as a guy who, like his brother Robert, would have made a huge difference […]
Oddly, my brother has a shirt just like mine… # # # I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: So much of this writing gig is about keeping yourself in the right emotional space to be able to just do the work. There’s a lot going on in that phrase, really, which is […]
So, here’s the thing. I’ve just seen Lisa Silverthorne’s news about completing the Novel Dare challenge, and I’m so stoked I can’t barely believe it. It makes me happy in ways that are like watching the moon rise over the mountains here in Oro Valley, or like watching the stars glitter in the big expanse […]
This was the first day in a long time where I could start in the morning and work pretty clear through the early afternoon. The story is coming along, and I’m at about 51K. With six days left I’m thinking I’ll probably finish the full story—though we’ll see if I have to do a little […]