One of my all-time favorite moments on my wife being supportive of my writing came while I was working on Arms of the Storm, book three in the Tears of Rage sequence. I was dragging my feet writing a scene where a particular character had to die. Yes, for a…
Yeah, I know that part of the fun of the internet is watching people flame each other and spout off about bullshit with little to no actual intelligent discourse. Yes, I admit I snicker some when I see those conversations... But for the love of anything, some of you are…
I first heard about WOOL from a review of one of my books, where someone used Mr. Howey's book to disparage mine, by way of talking about how awesome WOOL is. I filed the title away for future reference for when I was looking for something new to…
So...Dubbler I'm really grooving on this Dubbler app. REALLY. I think it's the start of something big, or at least, it's a lot of fun for me. Anything I have fun with is big. Since I'm getting really into this thing,…
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…
