I don’t normally do a year in review because my pursuit of publication has been an ongoing effort for over four years now and that story has only changed somewhat. Write a novel -> query, write a novel -> query, start new year, repeat. That was 2009 through 2011. Then came 2012, the year of…
Wow, it’s been a long time since I posted. Mea culpa. I tore a tendon in my shoulder and the recuperation (ongoing) has really thrown my routines for a loop. I’ve been working from home a lot or not working and going to physical therapy a lot. It may have been a good habit to…
My wife and I have resumed our Christmas tradition (after a year off due to the economy) of spending a few days up in the White Mountains at a bed and breakfast. Nearby is one of New Hampshire’s historical covered bridges. They’re historical because these things are over two hundred years old. And I drive…
It’s not a good idea to wait on inspiration, but when it strikes, you grab that shit and hold on. It can be a winning lottery ticket, and if you tell it to wait until later, you might never get to scratch off those numbers and hit the big score. /simile I was leaving work…
One of the perks of living/working in a major metropolitan area is that new technologies become viable in the marketplace sooner. For me, that means paying with my phone rather than cash/credit card. You might have heard of Square. It won best new technology a year or two ago. Rather than the standard credit card…
Have you watched the 10th Anniversary Firefly Panel from ComicCon yet? If not, we’ll wait for you. That hour was well spent, yes? I watched it again while you were watching it. It was time well spent, I think. (Granted, I’m a hardcore Firefly fan.) There’s one scene in particular that struck me as amazing,…
Being a digital generation, it’s easy to get trapped in the notion that who people are online is who they are in real life. And not to say that they’re liars or phonies, but when we’re on Twitter or Blogger or Facebook, we only see a fraction of that person. I never “market” myself, meaning…
Sometimes it feels like I watch a lot of TV. I grew up watching a LOT of television. I was a living TV Guide. But I got tired of it and stopped watching for years. We don’t have cable in my house. We stream what we want to watch. Castle, Legend of Korra, Psych, White…
Like most geeks, I saw The Avengers opening weekend. Like many geeks, I saw it more than once. Yes, it was that good. I did not know if it was going to be good. I was hesitantly pessimistic, but after 99% glowing reviews from people I know (some of whom I actually trust), I gave…
So do you remember back on April 3rd, when I was complaining about how I hadn’t been writing that much? Well, I hadn’t, and it was frustrating. Work was sucking the creativity out of my brain. I worked late. I worked more when I got home. I worked on weekends. That’s how publishing goes. Like…