Writing Wednesday: Learning About Free Marketing

Last Week’s Goals I continued to make my blog posts on schedule. I also posted my requisite comments on others’ blogs. I had one story return from market and sent it right back out to the next potential publisher. My next release (WEIRD, But Not TOO Scary Tales, already set up for preorders and presales … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about My Covid Disorientation

“You don’t get out much.” If you think about that standard joke – well, really, it’s a put-down – it’s telling YOU that something undesirable happens to people when they don’t spend time out and about in the world, and instead spend all their time sealed up in whatever sort of box they’ve been isolated … Continue reading →

Fractured Fragment Friday: Swordsmaster Promotion, Weird Tales Coming…

I joke that Swordsmaster was forty years in the making, but it’s not quite a joke. In the 70’s (some of you may think of it as the Stone Age), the germ of a story came to me. I started writing, and got eighty handwritten (there were no PCs back then) pages into it before … Continue reading →

Fractured Fragment Friday: “The Re-Entanglement of Grant Decker“ (and coupons!)

I give a lot of thought to dementia and Alzheimer’s. It could be because my wife has an aunt with the latter, or due to hearing of prominent people (Ronald Regan, Terry Pratchett) who have wound up with it. Then again, it’s more likely on my mind because my own memory always seems to be … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Taking Control

I think I’ve said before that I’m a very lucky person – I’ve managed to slide through life without too much effort – not saying that I haven’t been trying, it’s just that, so often, doors seem to open for me from unexpected places, rather than the doors I might have deliberately chosen myself. Even … Continue reading →

Fractured Fragment Friday: “Anti-Social” (and coupons!)

“Anti-Social” came from thinking about how we are losing personal contact as the internet and social media evolve. We’re also creating ridiculous quantities of data. What if in the future all data is transitory – statisticians determined that there will always a copy of anything somewhere (a PC, a server, a phone), so permanent storage … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Swordsmaster’s Sequel Finally Gets a Few Words In

Last week’s goals: Made my three blog posts on time, and managed to do some extra commenting on others (I’m not sure whether that’s good – it started to feel like I was using it as a distraction to keep from doing other things I needed to, but at least I made my goal.) Three … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about How I Became Who I Am

So often we define ourselves by what our job is – more specifically, our DAY JOB (for the purposes of this discussion, our DAY JOB is what we do to earn a living – the thing that actually pays the bills and keeps us fed. It might be something you really enjoy, but not necessarily.) … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Making Life Fair

Is life supposed to be fair? I suppose we’d all like it to be, but what would be fair? Opinions are guided by circumstances and experience. People who live in war zones probably might think life would be fair if the shooting just stopped. Kids who’ve been raised with everything handed to them grow up … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Conflicting Advice on Writing When You “Can’t”

Last week’s goals: Posts made as usual, and my comments on others’ blogs were also adequately accomplished. I completed the release weekend of “A Tail of Two Species.” Due to the delay, I have moved the next release date to September 4th – it will most likely be “Cat’s Paw” (Herc Tom #10.) Speaking of … Continue reading →