The concept of a story bundle is pretty cool, right? Give a reader leeway to pay what they want for a collection of books (within certain constraints, anyway), and give that reader a collection of books from a set of fun and outstanding writers. If they pay “enough” they get more books. And, on top […]
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Chasing the Setting Sun available for pre-buy!
I hear you, I hear you. I really do. You say: “Where can I get this new book of yours titled Chasing the Setting Sun?” And I reply: “Right here and right now! Or, at least you can now run over to a couple of your favorite book vendors and pre-buy the electronic versions!” So, […]
Read More ...Cover Reveals!
The World Series is just around the corner here in the US, and I am happy to say that you’ll soon see two books coming out of Skyfox Publishing that will help you celebrate it! Yes, friends, on October 20th, you’ll see a re-branded version of See the PEBA on $25 a Day, as well […]
Read More ...January reading
For the first time in awhile, I’m making some reasonable time to read most every day. This means that instead of reading almost wholly in the short fiction field, I’m getting into longer works. January, then, found me finish three novels, and a long novella (in addition to, of course, several short stories–I expect I’ll […]
Read More ...Perdido Street Station
The problem with reading China Mieville’s Perdido Street Station at a rate of a chapter a night is that it’s really hard to hold the whole thing in your head for that long. Just saying. Yeah, I know I’m late to that train, but we do our best, you know?
Read More ...Writing Short Stories — Novel Prep, or Not?
It was a big basketball weekend, of course. My Cardinals of Louisville are riding high, and seem to be a reasonable favorite to win it all. Lots of good teams out there, though, far too much competition left to get particularly cocky. # Myke Cole, a writing acquaintance of mine who I recently met in […]
Read More ...My Next Big Thing: Wakers
I’m a little late on this, but I’ve been busy on NaNoWriMo. Yes, life is tough. Anyway, a local writer, Paul Hoffman, invited me to participate in a My Next Big Thing blog tour. Paul is a local guy (assuming you live–like I do–in Columbus, Indiana, anyway), and he’s written A Murder in Wautosa, a […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 30 – It’s Done!
Wakers “finishes” NaNoWriMo at a final tally of 51, 735. I added about a thousand words this evening, but also killed about 500 others. Ultimately the last, say, 2000 words are really a coarse outline of the end of the story. So it’s a stretch to say it’s really “done.” But it’s done enough for […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 30 … 50K!
Morning Update (7:23) – A tad over 2K this morning brings me to well over 51K for the month, which means … I “win!” The story stands at present at 51,493 words, and I’m thinking it really needs about 2K more. My experience with making my own estimates, though, is that this means I’ll need […]
Read More ...Novel Dare – Day 29
Morning Update (5:47 AM) – About 500 words this AM. Yippee. I knew it was going to be a sparse morning because work has made a special call, and I’ll be heading it early for a day-long session. These things are particularly wearing because you have to concentrate all day–unlike a usual office day where […]
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