I’m alive. Or (rather) I’m focused and am very productive. I feel like I’ve neglected to mention that there’s a bevy of intangible things every writer needs in order to have a foundation to stand on. Confidence in yourself and your work is only a small part of the equation, because it’s not an all […]
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Musings and Opinions
Reader’s Preference, Author’s…Loss? Win? What?
Been a while since I’ve commented on different responses to reviews, but the recent initiative to stalk bad reviewers is worth noting for a few reasons. (You can read a reviewer’s first-hand experience here, by the way.) I find the website created to “give reviewers a dose of their own medicine” to be abhorrent, so […]
At The Heart
Phew! It has been a whirlwind of a summer. I’ve got multiple conventions coming up. GenCon: Indy. WorldCon in Chicago. Geek*Kon here in town. A trade show in September, and more after that. Convention planning is a lot of work. So much, in fact, that that particular phrase has been stuck in my mind. I […]
Blast from the Book Trailer Past
Oh, how much things have changed. It’s hard to believe it’s been two years since The Queen of Crows debuted. Here we are now and I feel the trailer still stands up to the test of time. So much so, I’m talking to a video editor about cutting an updated version into a widescreen edition. […]
The Dread Silent Manuscript
I feel like a sea slug sometimes because if you read my “updates” online, it doesn’t seem like I’m working on a whole heck of a lot. The lack of “let me tell you what I’m doing every minute of every day” was a conscious decision on my part so I could feel a little […]