Last Week’s Goals All my blog posts published on schedule. One submissions returned from markets and was sent back out. I have finished revising and formatting my 10th Detective Jimmy Delaney story, and it’s now out on all my platforms for pre-orders at a reduced price. The release date is April 12th. (The collections with … Continue reading
Just kidding! It’s just a blotting out of the sun that we like to make much ado about. **Before I continue with today’s post, it occurred to me that since the release of “The Phantom” is this Friday (Detective Jimmy Delaney #10), it would be a good idea if I were to offer a reduced … Continue reading
“Breathing is Overrated” was my second Writers of the Future contest honorable mention. The title is where the whole thing started – I was being flippant about breathing problems, and thought my clever witticism sounded like a good title. When I started writing it became about someone floating abandoned in space, the back-story emerged, and … Continue reading
Not all of us are angels, and there are reasons that Santa has a NAUGHTY list along with the NICE one. Would Santa really just drop a couple of lumps of coal in a misbehaving boy’s stocking, or would he do something a little more meaningful – perhaps send him to “Sleep with the Snowmen”? … Continue reading
We’re all familiar with the notion that sometimes the wrong people are in charge – through an accident of birth, or cronyism, or plain dumb luck people wind up in charge of underlings who are more qualified, leaving the underlings to question their masters’ intelligence. I thought to explore the idea with servant robots, but … Continue reading
I wasn’t thinking of anything in particular when “Saturday He Fed the Cat” came to me. It may have been influenced by the death of our 15-year old westie a couple of months earlier (Katy – the namesake of the story’s protagonist, and the westie pictured on the cover. She never told me that she’d … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All three posts went up on schedule last week. I had five stories to find markets for Monday, but was only able to place one of them. Swordsmaster: Deception is currently scheduled for release on December 15th. It is now available for preorders (at a reduced promotional price), or as a Smashwords … Continue reading
**I’m participating in the 15th Annual Smashwords Summer/Winter Sale! Swordsmaster and all my collections are available at 50% off for the entire month of July – you can find the links on MY CURRENT BOOK PROMOTIONS PAGE. For the next few Fractured Fragment Fridays, we’re visiting the twelve stories in my Herc Tom, Champion of … Continue reading
Even though I’ve been indie publishing for over a decade, most of my stories go through the submission process before I put them up on Smashwords, Amazon, and the other online platforms. Submitting is important – at least to me. We all have different reasons that we write, and if your reason doesn’t include being published, then you can go through your whole writing ‘career’ without dealing with Submission Frustration. Continue reading
“The Voices” was just a natural outgrowth of the voices that seem to come into my head (or out of it) all the time. They are not all as helpful as Billy Thompson’s, but they all have something to say. Here’s the Blurb Billy Thompson knows the voices are real, even if they are just … Continue reading
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