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Happy New Year! Okay, so the general state of “the world is on fire” hasn’t quite been put out. (I’ll make my statement of if you in ANY way support the terrorism and insurrection that went on at the Capitol last week, you can see yourself out now, and I won’t miss you. BYE.) Not […]

As planned, I’ve put the novella aside for now, and I started the anthology submission. I’ve frequently said here that titles either come to me right away or they don’t. For this short story…I got nothing. Nothing good, anyway. Okay, maybe I shouldn’t say I have nothing, as I have been brainstorming a few ideas […]

So I’ve been hinting at my new project in the past couple posts, and it’s time to come clean. I’ve been dodgy because this is something new for me, and I’m determined to make it work. I’m about 5K words in (and I have a great outline, for reasons I’ll talk about below), and so […]

First, a friendly PSA: There is a nasty strain of strep going around, which is resistant to some antibiotics. ASK ME HOW I KNOW. Also, I never, ever had a sore throat with it; I just thought I had a bad cold that wasn’t going away, and I didn’t seek medical attention until it had […]

It’s that time. My writing fingers are getting itchy and I think I’m ready to start a new project. It’s an exciting moment – opening up MS Word, seeing that beautiful blank page, and going to “Save As”. But am I really ready? I don’t have a formal checklist of tasks I need to complete […]

The Disintegration sequel (working title so I can make the label: The Fall of the Midnight Scorpions) is underway and the words are flying onto the page. I know I was hesitant to begin this one for a while, but all of my misgivings are gone. Despite having a touch of the flu (I could […]

I’ve written about my title woes before. Even when I don’t have a title for the book I’m working on, I still need something by which to refer it when I’m talking with friends, other than “that book I’m working on”. And even when I do have a title, sometimes a snappier name comes up […]

In this post, I expressed my woes over not having a title for the Searching the Skies sequel. The same thing happened this weekend as with the original book – I finished the first draft, and still had no title. I decided last night that THE TIME HAD COME, and I was going to title […]