For the next few Fractured Fragment Fridays, we’ll visit the twelve stories in my Herc Tom, Champion of the Empire series. Next up is “Cat and Mouse.” In the third installment of Herc Tom, Champion of the Empire, I felt it was time to get away from a feline only milieu and add in a couple … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All my posts went up as expected. Two submissions came back to roost, and I am currently unable to find a market for them, or the one that’s been sitting on the shelf from the week before. I wrote on six days, and made my daily quota on three of them. I … Continue reading
For the next few Fractured Fragment Fridays, we’ll visit the twelve stories in my Herc Tom, Champion of the Empire series. Next up is “Nipped in the Butt.” “Nipped in the Butt” (I do like double entendre) gave me a chance to expand a little more on the conflict between Ramses and the Baastians (I don’t … Continue reading
For the next few Fractured Fragment Fridays, we’ll visit the stories in my Herc Tom, Champion of the Empire series. First up is “Purr Mission”, and an explanation of how Herc Tom came to be. So – cats. Why did I decide to write a story about cats? I didn’t, really. The story that eventually became … Continue reading
I had two self-made story prompts that I referenced for “Getting Personal” – each entered into my IDEAS file over ten years ago: Personal Injury Specialists – when the injury needs to be personal, and Dangerous Bidding. I know the story that resulted had next to nothing to do with those ideas, but that was … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All my blog posts published on schedule. One submissions returned from markets and was sent back out. I have finished revising and formatting my 10th Detective Jimmy Delaney story, and it’s now out on all my platforms for pre-orders at a reduced price. The release date is April 12th. (The collections with … Continue reading
Detective Jimmy Delaney was never intended to be a series. It started with “In a Flash”, back when I was writing nothing but stand-alone short stories. All I had was a vague idea of a device to import knowledge directly into the human brain (that idea arrived through a co-worker’s offhand comment.) I worried about … Continue reading
“Lasting Impression” came into my mind with the image of a strange creature fading into the woods. I thought it might be a good origin story for Sheriff Audrey Harper in “Sasqwhat?” and then the story rolled out from there (and in typical PANTSER fashion, the creature wasn’t what I first thought it was, either.) … Continue reading
“Breathing is Overrated” was my second Writers of the Future contest honorable mention. The title is where the whole thing started – I was being flippant about breathing problems, and thought my clever witticism sounded like a good title. When I started writing it became about someone floating abandoned in space, the back-story emerged, and … Continue reading
Last Week’s Goals All blog entries posted on schedule. Seven stories returned from market, and all were sent back out. Even though my stated goal this year has been to only do submissions on Mondays, I may be changing that. The Submission Grinder is so efficient that it takes a lot less time to send … Continue reading
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