Twenty plus years of marriage. A teenage daughter. Creeping towards my black belt in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. Waking up early every day to write fiction. Or sometimes just stare at the blank page. Now testing Seth Godin's idea of blogging daily. Sharing my thoughts. Always hardest to begin something new, and to commit to it, but after some time, it loses its strangeness and becomes who … [Read more...]
Alien Infestation – Excerpt
Read an excerpt from my new science fiction novel Alien Infestation and pick up your copy today. Abel was done with his watch shift and more than anything else just wanted to go down to his bunk, gulp down a shot or two of ship whiskey, maybe three or four, and get some sleep. He had not been sleeping well lately. Hell, he had not been sleeping well since the prison barge Acheron connected … [Read more...]
Cover Reveal: Alien Infestation
Check out the brand new cover for my next novel, Alien Infestation, to be released April 1, 2017. If you are wondering what the story is about, here's a synopsis: Snake Walker, space pirate, thought being sentenced to a prison mining colony was bad. Then the aliens attacked. At the edge of the Federation Territories, Snake Walker makes a living salvaging spaceships even if it means breaking … [Read more...]
My 5,000 Words Per Hour Experiment, or Write Faster Fool
I am a hunt-and-peck typist. Somehow I still get words out on the page. The power of two or three fingers. I muddle through. But, of course, I would love to be able to write faster. Wouldn't we all? And in looking for a way to increase my productivity, I've come across numerous folks singing the praises of books outlining methods to write faster - 5,000 words an hour, 2,000 to … [Read more...]
Special Deal: 10 Stories for Under a Dollar
Changing my mind about writing to market
In some previous blog post, I blathered on about my dislike for folks who were on the soap box ranting about the idea of writing to market. I can't quite recall what I wrote (and am too lazy to search around on my own website) but the general gist was: Meh, I want to write what I want to write. I abhorred the idea of doing research to determine what genre of story I was going to write. It … [Read more...]
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