Oof what a year. Lotta highs and some deep, deep lows. I got five books out this year: - Honest Dating App Profiles - Dance Among the Lightning Bolts - The Re-Imagined Princess - Beyond the Burlap - Halloween Jack and the Red Emperors Not as many as I'…
I'm thinking about 2025. It's been a roller coaster of a year for me. I've gone through flurries of productivity peppered with doldrums of stagnation. In other words, life be lifing. Here we are at the other end of the year, and everyone is…
Originally published February 10, 2011. Only edits are minor typos and clarity. At the moment, I am reading SCIENCE FICTION 101 edited by Robert Silverberg. It contains some of the stories that shaped him as a young writer, and he analyzes these works as to why they are not only…
AKA... HAVE TO VS WANT TO Every day, I'll see at least one MEME or post on any of my social media about how terrible writing is. So much of the conversations at conventions and symposiums revolve around the struggles of getting writing done. It's like…
This is going to wander about a bit as I think through my fingers. First off... We're back here rather than at GallowglasArmy.com. Going forward, that's going to be the new email zine I'm put together. This site is once again my "…
I originally posted this Schrodinger's Cat on Feb 10, 2011. I've edited a few typos and removed the second space between sentences. It boggles me that I was still doing that even several years after my undergrad. How tedious and time-consuming it must have been to…
August 27th, 2025 Yeah. I know it's been a while since I've done an update. One of the most valuable skills a working and hustling creative can develop is knowing when too much is too much. Life got crazy and heavy for a good chunk of…
What a weird, amazing, and surreal weekend. It rained on Saturday. Like really rained. Like downpour for a quite a bit. Oh, and the hail. That was fun. In hindsight, I should have made anyone asking to stand under our umbrellas buy a book. Bwahahahah. Speaking of books and rain.…
Way back in the day, when I was just getting started, I made these kinds of posts on Blogspot. I'd do a recap of events I attended. I've decided to start doing them again, in a series we'll call "From the Front Lines.…
Greetings. Apologies for the delay in posting. I spent the end of May and the beginning of June hella sick and dealing with some personal drama. Things are evening out, so hopefully, I'll be posting here more often. I figured since I spent several weeks just coasting through…
