As a self-published writer, I'm always on the lookout for some new way to get my work in front of new readers. Usually that means diving into new twists on the social networking/media craze. I have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, ad infintum, ad nausium, etc. I…
Oddly, it's not closer than it appears. Look, there it goes, fading into the distance. At first, I wasn't going to do one of these silly year-in-review blog posts, but then, I realized, this has been a pretty big year for me with lots of ups…
I believe in shameless self-promotion as much as the next self-published writer. Hell, I probably believe in self-promotion as much as the next seven writers. Don't believe me? Ask the seven other writers I invited to join me in the Genre Underground, a little group of small-press and…
What a mad, mad world we live in. Doom and gloom that has nothing to do with the coming to the end of the Mayan Calendar. Over the last few weeks, I've had a plethora of daily rant ideas, but I've held off due to the…
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." - Ernest Hemingway I plan on bleeding a lot in the future...but I'm getting ahead of myself. It's a lazy Saturday morning, which I don't…
Last night I finished the second book in my Halloween Jack series, Halloween Jack and the Devil's Gate. I've shared this with some friends and beta readers, and I have yet to hear anything back except for one reader, who said, "So I've…
Thanks to Jeff Carlson, crafter of some of the most intense science fiction thrill rides you'll ever experience, for inviting me to participate in the awesome that is "The Next Big Thing." Last week, he answered some questions about his Latest book, The Frozen Sky which…
I didn't plan on writing a blog post today. My plan was to hunker down and steamroll through to the end of Halloween Jack and the Curse of Frost. Then one of my Facebook friends happened to share the following image and quote on my Facebook Timeline. “I…
Here's my very first post on my shiny new website, with a brand-new look, with my name on it, I so I figure why not start things of with a little rant. And I've been saving this one up for a while, letting it brew so…
It's that time again! Facebook had made some changes to it's ToS, and so people have started posting what they believe is copyright protection on their Timelines. I've seen about half-a-dozen of these over the weekend. Let me put this in plain terms: IT…
