I'm not really sure what I want to talk about in this post. I thought about how I've been spending a lot of time with some old friends. That is, talking about how the characters in tears of rage are like old friends, but it'…
In 2019, I challenged myself to write a novel one page a day in an Italian leather journal, just to see if I could do it. The result of that experiment became The 9/10 Memwar. Since then, I've repeated the process, resulting in 366 flash fiction stories,…
I'm going to ignore that it's Friday the 13th of October and not write about anything Halloween or horror-related. Instead, I'm gonna get esoteric and weird... The last social outing I had before the COVID shutdown was a Sunday brunch with one of my…
A few years back, someone told me point blank, to my face, "I don't think you like writing. I think you like being known as a writer, but I don't think you actually like the writing part." That's not completely verbatim. It&…
It's been a long, rough year. Last year was a long, rough year. Some of you who follow me may have noticed I haven't been quite as prolific as when I first started publishing. Between a lot of personal stuff and grad school, I sort of…
This is going to be a little bit of a rambling post, mostly me thinking through my fingers about experimenting with making my Tears of Rage ebooks exclusive to Amazon. Now I know some of my readers and fellow writers consider Amazon to be the big bad nasty of publishing…
A little while back, I wrote a little piece about being accused of being an unethical writer and my thoughts on that. Well, since I am and, as I've admitted time and time again, I am a shameless self-promoting whore, I figure, why the hell should I worry…
We're just a week away from November, and many writers across the world are gearing up for National Novel Writing Month. (Though I should be International Novel Writing Month, since it's kinda exploded across the globe.) I'm going to give it a go this…
Here I was, enjoying my regular Monday routine, taking Miss Megan to her ballet class, when I see that Jennifer Brozek calls me out on Twitter with a link to her most recent blog post. The long and short, is that it's part of a chain blog tour,…
THIS RANT HAS SPOILERS FOR TOY STORY 3 AND POTENTIAL SPOILERS FOR HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 3. I just saw that Change.org has a petition going trying to affect the end of the How to Train Your Dragon movies. The point of the petition is to have DreamWorks…
