Just a quick note, because I may have a longer note later, but I don’t want to jump any guns, so I’ll just mention that I got an e-mail this morning from Roy over at Bad Moon Books.  This picture was in it (there was more, but I’m not posting topless pictures of Roy in my blog … and the lettered…

I am - at heart - a creature somewhat prone to habitual behavior.  In this instance, the habit I want to discuss has to do with the structure of novels, and how my most recent book is not fitting that format.  I also have a thought or two on WHY this is happening, but all in due course.

Over the years…

A discussion over at Storytellers Unplugged sprang up after Brian Hodge’s last post about characters and characterization. I don’t want to rehash what has already been said, but some other things caught my eye and ear in a short period of time, and as often happens, they formed themselves into the germ of an idea for a blog post.

No one who…

Last night I wrote another couple of thousand words on my new story / book “Tattered Remnants”. I’ve been keeping it all in one big Word file. The formatting of some chapters followed one “model” and others were different, and it was getting confusing, snarled, and difficult to concentrate on. I decided to try and fix it.

Before I went to…

I like to keep this site focused on writing, the work in progress, thoughts and rants - the usual fare of blogs that people are willing to give up some of their day for on a regular basis.  Unfortunately, since this is also the site where I promote my books, the two bonk heads regularly.

I say let the madness end,…

I had intended to say something about writing today, and I may yet do that, but first, I wanted to celebrate a very good mail day.  Part of that good day arrived Priority Mail at home:  2 copies of ENNUI & OTHER STATES OF MADNESS - my new collection from Dark Regions Press.  You can buy this in it’s trade…

Good news for readers who just want to read a book, and don’t necessarily want to shell out the money for a gorgeous, illustrated signed and numbered / lettered edition of a book. The Full Moon Press, who currently have two novels of mine under contract, MAELSTROM and SINS OF THE FLASH, and who I am in negotiations with to create…

Ran two miles this morning before I was fully awake (best if I sneak up on myself and get it over with before I catch on to what’s happening). One of the things I’ve noticed in the past couple of years is that, when you are running for twenty minutes to an hour at a time, you have a lot…

I’m working slowly on a project titled “Tattered Remnants.”  Part of the fun of this project is that a great number of things are not exactly what they seem.  Part of the difficulty of this project is in making sure that the things that are NOT as they seem continue to seem the way they - well - SEEM.  I’ve…

Over the course of this summer I’ve done a lot of writing.  I’m still doing a lot of writing, but that’s only the tip of the iceberg, especially once you really get busy.  Today I proofread The Not Quite Right Reverend Cletus J. Diggs & The Currently Accepted Habits of Nature for about the third time.  It was supposed to be…