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 →

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 →