Last Week’s Goals My three blog entries posted as scheduled. Rotating my stories back out to market as fast as I can. I failed to make my weekly quota once more – only 785 words of fiction. I finished my reacquaintance revision of Swordsmaster: Deception. I wrote six days, but didn’t make my daily quota … Continue reading
“Too Much of a Good Thing” is a soft-boiled detective novella, the ninth in the Detective Jimmy Delaney series. It has some sci-fi and fantasy elements, sort of a The Rockford Files meets The Avengers (the old BBC series, not the Marvel superheroes.) Here’s the Blurb Was it just too much of a good thing? … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All my blog posts went out on time. Two stories returned from market and cycled back out. I note that I am failing on one of my goals for this year: I was supposed to review and revamp my blurbs and keywords by the end of June – this has not … Continue reading
Since we’re now a week out from the release of “Possession” (Detective Jimmy Delaney #8), it’s time to feature it on Fractured Fragment Friday. So, where did Jimmy come from? It started with an off-hand comment, someone wishing they could just plug a flash drive into their head and get the knowledge and skills they … Continue reading
Since we’re now a week out from the release of “Hacked Off” (Detective Jimmy Delaney #7), it seems that I should be featuring it on Fractured Fragment Friday, so I am. So where did Jimmy come from? It started with an off-hand comment, someone wishing they could just plug a flash drive into their head … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals My blog entries were all posted on schedule. I had three stories return from market, and two are back out the door. As to the third: If you were paying attention last Friday, I neither launched a new release nor explained what I was going to do to right my Indie-Publishing goal … Continue reading
My next collection is set up and ready for preorders. Close Encounters of the Weird Kind is a collection of twenty-one speculative fictions. Within thesepages are twenty-one short fictions involving meetings between beings who refer to each other as alien. What were they thinking? Whether you’ve suffered through your own invasion, or experienced a probing … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals Report My blog posts posted on time, and I commented on others’ blogs, plus some extra likes for good measure. Stories are cycling to the next market as they return to me. Close Encounters of the Weird Kind is ready to go for its November 27th release. The collection of twenty-one alien … Continue reading
Raise your hand if 2020 is your favorite year. Unless you’re an anarchist, I don’t think so. This year has too much uncertainty even for a speculative fiction writer like me. We live in a meandering time, in a meandering world, in a meandering country. When will Covid be over? Will I be allowed to … Continue reading
My next collection is set up and ready for preorders. Close Encounters of the Weird Kind is a collection of twenty-one speculative fictions. Within these pages are twenty-one short fictions involving meetings between beings who refer to each other as alien. What were they thinking? Whether you’ve suffered through your own invasion, or experienced a … Continue reading
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