First and foremost, because I have a writing career. How specifically has the rise of available indie/self publication helped me with this? As many of my close acquaintances can tell you, patience is really NOT one of my virtues. Also, while I love to write, without some sort of…
Almost twenty years ago, I had the privilege of meeting Mr. Robert Jordan, writer of the Wheel of Time series. Book four, The Shadow Rising, had come out in hardback, and Mr Jordan was signing books at a independent bookstore in Sacramento, California. I do not recall the name of…
Once We Were Like Wolves has been out for exactly one month today! It's opened bigger than any of my previous books, and while I know I have both the Indie Book Collective and the Amazon KDP Select program to thank for much of that, I also owe…
"We're all in the dark, and we're all not guilty." This one sentence is the most valuable thing I learned while pursuing my Creative Writing degree at San Francisco State University. Thanks to Matthew Clark Davison for this nugget of enlightenment, not just for…
I'm sitting at the dining room table, a place where I have done a vast amount of the writing on my last two books. The cats are racing all over the place, chasing each other in and out and over and under boxes left over from the holiday…
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I've got a list of blog posts sitting there in my Microsoft OneNote file, just waiting around to get written. I've even sat down to crank one of them out, but I keep looking at the response I received from my last post, that I'…
Well, here we are. Welcome to my little corner of the blog-o-sphere. It's been one heck of a ride since Friday when we started this grand adventure. If you followed the tour schedule, you're coming here from JL Oakley's blog over at:…
It's Blog Tour de Troops Weekend. Something like fifty writers are getting together and giving away free books on their blogs to every commentor as well as giving away a book to a soldier. We're also giving away Kindles to soldiers in celebration of the men…
With the popularity of the new print version of First Chosen I got a bunch of questions down at the Escondido Renaissance Faire about being a writer. The two most frequent being variations of: "Why do you write?" and "Where do you get your ideas?" I&…
