Thought of the Day: To get what you want, you’re going to have to change. You can’t keep doing just what you’re doing and expect to achieve a final destination that’s not at the end of your current path. You know what your current path is and what it leads to. …
Dear inklings, it is National Novel Writing Month! and I have a couple thousand more words to pound out tonight. So, without further ado or adon’t, here is a top ten list to entertain you!
Around Christmas of this year, I shall have a story in the SAME short story collection as HARLAN ELLISON and ALAN DEAN FOSTER. As my friend Josh (who’s gonna have a story in the same collection) says, “This is what we in the business call a pretty big deal.”
a few days ago I was tooling around in Google Analytics again, and I thought to myself, “Self, you really should write another blog post about keywords again, because that was just rockin’ awesome fun,” and myself replied, “Heck YEAH.”
So. Here are a few recent keyword phrases that have led people to my blog. Some of them make sense. Some of them, like haiku about refigerators*, do not….
Ladies and gentlehobbits, I present to you: A Consortium of Worlds, Vol. 1 (Fall Issue)!
This is the first issue of the new Consortium Books quarterly, speculative fiction, short story e-magazine for Kindle and Nook. If you don’t know what spec fic is, just think sci-fi and fantasy with, in our case, a little dash of steampunk and mythology thrown in. It’s a yummy stew of otherwordly writerliness, and, as you might have guessed, I highly recommend a generous helping! My ingredient for this recipe comes in the form of a high fantasy short story….
Over at UnstressedSyllables.com, I’ve posted my weekly column What I Learned About Writing This Week. Click on over to find out what cat vomit has to do with my short story crafting. There’s a connection. I promise. ; )
By which I mean really unrelated….
My dear inklings, I realized I’ve been remiss in sharing my writing music with you. So, without further ado or adon’t, here are my playlists for the first two novels in the Demons of Saltmarch Series, as well as characters and scenes the music inspired….
Thanks to Josh and a rollicking romp of insanity, I somehow got myself involved with the Kindle All-Stars Project. In short, KAS is the brainchild of one Bernard J. Schaffer, who is putting together a short story anthology for Kindle of various independent authors….
This is what happens when Twitter is down.