Clearly there was an uptick in blog posting earlier this year. Three times in as many months! In an age where blog posting is effectively dead if you don’t have a platform (or if it isn’t your primary focus), we’ll call that a surprising increase in activity. And then…NOTHING! Until today. The cool thing is,…
I always take a little break between manuscripts. I consider it a “voice reset.” I used to be so jazzed I would immediately roll into a new project, but I found the voice of the next project sounded exactly the same as the one I had just finished. It inevitably led to a lot of…
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…
I have, in my time, both acted as and utilized beta readers. With that, I’ve found that different authors have different policies in how they treat their beta readers. I have rules on how I deal with them. They are unpaid volunteers that are doing me a great service without any promise of return. I…
Generally, I feel in a rush to be published and begin my professional career in earnest. Part of that is because I’ve been writing for so long and am a touch ashamed that I only recently started taking it so seriously. I lost a whole decade in there where I might have made something of…
It’s hard not to say Lord of the Rings is my favorite movie1. The most epic of fantasies done better than any genre movie ever before. But for all its awesomeness, I always come back to Out of Sight. Steven Soderberg’s 1998 movie with George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, and Ving Raimes. The writing, the acting,…