Meandering Monday about Being as Lucky as I Want to Be

I’m a lucky man. No, not like the Emerson, Lake & Palmer song Lucky Man which is about the old saw that the grass is always greener on the other side (you walk over to your neighbor’s perfect-looking lawn and now you can see all his weeds, so he isn’t so good, is he? A … Continue reading →

Forecast Friday: They Already Know

“Every breath you take and every move you make Every bond you break, every step you take, I’ll be watching you” – Sting There’s a Wisconsin vending company offering their employees microchip implants in their finger so they can do things like make purchases, log into computers, and the like, and I don’t think they’re … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Measuring My Work

Goals: Market rotations (every story back out to market within a week of returning to me) still keeping up, despite a dearth of markets (I need to revamp my list of markets.) I miss the days when Duotrope Digest was free – still not sure if it’s worth five dollars a month to have access … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about …me?

I’m a walking contradiction, partly truth, and partly fiction. – Kris Kristofferson We’re all that way, aren’t we (no, I don’t mean all the dark, depressingly negative things in that song of his – just that one line.) Part of the reason it’s so difficult (and just plain insulting) to try to put labels on … Continue reading →

Sum-it-up Sunday: Politics, Promises, Privilege, Predicament

A quick note about Sum-it-up Sunday: I am a conservative. There was a time when even allowing that to be thought of you was a death sentence – at least to any career aspirations you might have in a number of fields, especially writing. But we live in a different age – not only do … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Passion In, Passion Out

My goals march along… Blog posting, market recycling, and ePublishing schedules continue apace. I finished Alvin Journeyman, so that’s 4 of the 6 speculative fiction books I was supposed to read this year. I wrote 3026 words of fiction, so that’s three weeks in a row of making my weekly 3000 word quota. All of it … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Purveyors of Pessimism and Propaganda

Why is it so important for the weatherman to tell me what the heat index is going to be? It’s not bad enough it will be in the mid 90’s, you have to tell me it will feel like 104 degrees? (How do you know what temperature it FEELS like? That seems a bit subjective, … Continue reading →

Selling Saturday: “Baastards’ Revenge” Preorder Campaign

And so it continues… “Baastards’ Revenge” – the fourth story of my Herc Tom, Champion of the Empire series – is prepped and ready to go. Champion of the Empire Hercules Tom thinks this is a mere diplomatic mission to Baast; little does he know what the Baastards have in store for him. But don’t … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: To Be Read, or NOT To Be Read?

Mostly doing well on my goals: Blog posts and market rotations still as planned. My story total for this year still sits at 6, but 7,8, & 9 are all in various stages of preparation – I should be able to count all in the finished column by the end of July. If I’m lucky … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about the Monkeys in My Head

“Why do an infinite number of monkeys always want to type “Hamlet”? What’s wrong with “Macbeth”? Why not something by Dickens or Poe?” – Tom Knapp I’m a writer – I KNOW I am. And yet… I often find myself at a loss for words. It’s not just a matter of the right word – … Continue reading →