Tag: pause


  • As previously mentioned, I participated in Sara Megibow’s Writer’s Digest webinar last week. She had a lot of good points and went over various features of her clients that caught her attention during the query process (all her clients except for one came through the slush pile). Not all the things she mentioned had to…

  • So Blogger was reset to a previous back up. Anything you posted yesterday is most likely not there. Cool thing is, I actually scheduled yesterday’s post Wednesday night so it was still saved as a draft. I pushed it live again. It’s a pretty big deal Blogger going down like that. Some people really saw…

  • When was the last time I wrote something original? I’m trying to remember and quite frankly, I can’t. I edited the TRIAD SOCIETY then I revised JEHOVAH’S HITLIST then I started rewriting WANTED: CHOSEN ONE and now I’m doing yet another pass on JEHOVAH’S HITLIST. Somewhere in there I wrote six chapters of THE 7TH…

  • I wrote today. By itself this is not a big deal. I write a minimum of five days a week. Near the end of JH, I was writing seven days a week1. But I had a powerful flu that caused me to do not much of anything but sit on the couch under a blanket…

  • More and more often, one of the arguments against ebooks I’m hearing is: When society collapses and there is no more power to charge the ebook or run the servers or what have you, I’ll be happy with my paper books. It’s a hyperbolic example, but not for the reasons I think they’re intending. I…

  • Time Out

    I have two thousands words left before I complete JEHOVAH’S HITLIST. I just bought SHADOWHEART, the fourth and final volume of the Shadowmarch Tetralogy written by my favorite author, Tad Williams. This is a time for writing and reading a big ass book. …yet SHADOWHEART sits on my table (damn that thing is heavy to…