Down a lonely alleyway, under a starless sky, lies a city that never was, yet is: the Mad City, where nightmares walk the streets, and a good night’s sleep can get you killed. Here, then, is a book from that place. Within these recovered pages are the tales of the Awake, insomniacs who’ve walked those […]
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Novels, Long-Term. Short Stories, Short. Money? Oh, Money.
From the “What readers want to know” files, someone asked me about how I set my goals and how far in advance I set them. I can’t, for the life of me, remember who asked me the question and when. The past few days have been a jaunt into the land of hallucinogens. Felled by […]
There is only one Soundwave, thank you.
The story behind this particular acquisition is a sordid and wistful tale of nerd rage. Yes, even I succumb to those WTF moments on occasion. In this particular case, it is the devolution of Soundwave. For me, his character was the reason why I liked putting up with Optimus Prime’s endless death and rebirth cycle, […]
Constructing Redwing’s Gambit: Revisions and Cut Text – Part 4 of 5
I have about 7 to 10,000 words of cut text that I removed from Redwing’s Gambit during the revisions process. Once I erased Dan Daget’s character, I restructured the flow of the different perspectives and ensured that they read correctly. The biggest reason for the revisions, however, was to reduce any extraneous worldbuilding or plot […]
And The Writer’s Life Goes On
If you haven’t been reading the internet news about e-books and price wars lately, you may not have heard about the growing concerns caused by Amazon’s behavior, which is aptly described by Charles Stross in this article What Amazon’s ebook Strategy Means. There was also a suit filed against the big six publishers; you can […]