Fractured Fragment Friday: “Nipped in the Butt”

For the second Fractured Fragment Friday, since I’m currently working on my sixth Herc Tom, Champion of the Empire story, we’ll move on to an excerpt from the second tale in the series. From “Nipped in the Butt”: “Sabertooth just passed through to the Quartz sector. Under whose orders?” There was a pause, in which Shadow … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Why I Blog

Why am I blogging? I do a lot of thinking, rethinking and analyzing about why I do things (some people would say I do entirely too much of it, but I bet their memories let them remember WHY they started doing something, while I have to constantly dredge things up to rediscover my WHYs), so … Continue reading →

Selling Saturday (early edition): Release Weekend for Just Some More, And Yet Still Even More Things I Could Get Out of My Mind

The preorder campaign is over for Just Some More, And Yet Still Even More Things I Could Get Out of My Mind ; the collection includes the following short stories: “The Collective is All” – At least that’s what Abbe’s been told, but events lead him to wonder if there might just be some intelligent … Continue reading →

Selling Saturday: Preorder Campaign Begins for “Just Some More, And Yet Still Even More Things I Could Get OUT OF MY MIND”

That sure is a mouthful, isn’t it? When I started putting together short-story collections, the first one was Things I Could Get OUT OF MY MIND, and adding another word to the title for each new volume seemed a fun and natural thing to do. Maybe I didn’t understand HOW MANY stories I was going … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Don’t Get Depressed – Double Down

Problems again finding markets, but by and large keeping my stories circulating to various potential publishers. Plodding away at my blurb rewrites – hope to be done and updated by my August 25th deadline. Blog posts on schedule. Still reading my 5th of 6 books for this year, and my completed stories are still sitting … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Being Put in a Box

Have I talked about the quality of my junk mail? It used to be that I would get mailers about singles groups, even though I was already married when this started and I would never have looked into it, it was nice to be thought of as someone who might be desirable to others. I … 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 →