So Peggey the Editor also picked up Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded by John Freakin' Scalzi the other day and I've been peeking in and reading snippets of it while it's been sitting on the kitchen table. As expected, it's a great collection of his blog entries since the Paleolithic Age. Really, he started … Continue reading Blogging Is Work

It's Election Day here in the United States and as usual, our sanity checks have been failed. I don't write about politics because, well, it really doesn't interest me. Not the running of our country or anything, no, that interests me plenty. It's the "debating" part and the "bipartisan" congress and politicians who don't interest … Continue reading Election Day… Call It ED2

I, uh, got carried away. The artist informed the publisher and I that what you think you saw was but a draft, a mere optical illusion. Nothing to see here, move along please. But for those of you who know me, you know where something may or may not be found in my pictures.  

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I'm getting ready to do my disappearing act for a few days and I'm, well, bored. I want my readers to be entertained but how can they when I'm not entertained? So tell me, all you aspiring authors out there... do you have a plan for NaNoWriMo yet? And if so, is it sensible? I … Continue reading Bored Bored I Should Be Writing But I’m Not…

Like any good pulled pork (well, any good Southern pulled pork that is... still waiting for them northern folk to figure out that you can't fast-cook everything) a good novel takes time. A lot of time, really. Even if you're only at your keyboard for six hours writing, the story is in your mind all the time. And the plot lines, characters, destinations and localities all reside there on a permanent basis. The author should have a solid grasp on everything, and it'll taste wonderful at the end (insert crude joke here... c'mon, you know you want to).

As I sat through the weekend doing things (boring things, but things nonetheless) I started wondering: just what do people think of the book they bought? More specifically, my book. The floor is open, and nobody's comment will be refused. Did it suck worse than Pearl Harbor? Better? About the same? Let me know, it's … Continue reading Does It Suck?

Incoming rant... you've been warned. One of the things that grabs my goat (do people still say that?) is when someone officious tells everyone that some form of entertainment is bad for your children and it should be removed. They'll tell parents that "such and such ought to be ashamed of themselves, showing their bare … Continue reading Incoming Fire, Seeking Support

Reviewed Out of the Dark by David Weber over at SBR. Decent book, though you wouldn't know it if you read the Amazon reviews. I liked it, and since only my opinion matters.... Heh, yeah right. But all in all, not bad. I'm slightly annoyed, however, because I just bought my third copy of Monster … Continue reading A Wasted Wednesday

So Corruptor seems to be doing okay in the initial sales. I'd like to see higher sales (naturally), but the amount I've sold so far with so little publicity behind it is amazing. I am truly blessed to have great people read this blog and show interest in an author and book nobody has really … Continue reading A Week(end) in Review

Yes, it's just the non-DRM formatting, and I don't think the cover is up, but the book in its entirety is now available at Twilight Times! OMGWTFBBQ!!!1!1! Uh, yeah. Go buy it, if you're interested...

It's Friday! Do you know what that means? Neither do I, actually. Just a few notes today about other people. Not nearly as exciting as it could be but hey, I'm easy to please. First off, congratulations to Larry Correia. I interviewed him a few months back and this past week he hit the NYT bestseller … Continue reading Friday I’m In Love…

I decided not to go north for my super secret thingy today and instead, I shall take a break from writing and spend a few moments with you, the reader. How does that make you feel? Violated? Shush, who asked you anyways... Someone posted JK Rowling's flowchart on how she plots, schemes and whazzitted her … Continue reading You Got The Flow?