Writing Wednesday: Marketing: What’s an Old Dog to Do?

Last Week’s Goals All my blog posts went out on schedule. Two of my stories returned from markets and cycled back out in a day or two. My next scheduled release will be “Hacked Off” (Detective Jimmy Delaney #7) on June 25th. I completed the last revision, but still need to create the cover and … Continue reading →

Fractured Fragment Friday: If You Were Skirting Intergalactic Trade Policy, You Would “Flee Markets”, Too

I wrote “Flee Markets” just to play around with the unoriginal notion of a transitory shop, but it became a story about escapes. Samantha wants to escape from a humdrum summer – she’s mostly thinking in terms of escaping into fantasy literature, but encounters Phineas – a renegade shop-owner who has more to offer than … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: So, How’s that Marketing Going?

Last week’s goals: I made my three blog posts and my comments on others’ blogs. (I would make a goal to GET comments on my blog, but that wouldn’t be a goal – it would be a milestone, because I have no control over that, dear readers… see how craftily I worked that request in … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: Back to Thinking About This Old Dog

Last week’s goals: I made my weekly quota of blog posts, as well as reciprocal likes and comments (actually, there are no reciprocal comments – I leave them for others, but I just don’t seem to be inspiring comments from others. The ePublication of “A Tail of Two Species” has been attended to (it’s currently … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: I Am Published, and Therefore I Am

Last week’s goals: Right up front, the loss of my day-job last week, as noted this past Meandering Monday has thrown a wrench in the works. Aside from the effect on my ability to think, I’m also dealing adapting to the older or less familiar technology I have available to me now. I made my … Continue reading →

Writing Wednesday: I Know Nothing

My report on last week’s goals: I posted my own blog on schedule, but fell short on my commenting again. This week I’m making a point of doing it at the start of the week. If you don’t prioritize, it doesn’t get done. When I took that Franklin Covey course in 2004 – the one … Continue reading →

Fractured Fragment Friday: “Riding the Devil”

In choosing this week’s fractured fragment, I haven’t been able to come up with an angle to explain WHY this particular story is apropos for this time of year; it’s just next on my list of non-flash publications. Here’s the blurb for “Riding the Devil”: With his town running from one strange frontier to another … Continue reading →

Fractured Fragment Friday: “Inheritance”

Welcome to the first Fractured Fragment Friday of 2019! Sometimes when we’re looking forward to the new year, we also look back to the past. The excerpt for this week finds a young man who looks into his family’s past and finds something he wasn’t expecting. Here’s the blurb for “Inheritance”: When Amun discovers that … Continue reading →

Fractured Fragment Friday: “Sleep with the Snowmen”

Goddesses, Sleep with the Snowmen, and Other Fantasies was released last weekend, so it’s not quite old news yet, and there’s a Christmas appropriate story contained within those covers. We only have a touch over seventeen days before the fat man is climbing about on our roofs (has Sidney Greenstreet ever played Santa Claus?), so … Continue reading →

Meandering Monday about Comments and Self-Promotion

As usual last week, I struggled with my goal to comment on at least three blogs. Why do I have this as one of my weekly objectives? One of my weaknesses when it comes to making a go of it as a self-published writer is marketing and self-promotion. I’m not comfortable with asking people to … Continue reading →