I’m in a writer’s group run by a friend of mine. It’s called “Paths to Publication” and it’s more about pursuing a writing career than it is about performing the act of writing. We talk about projects and successes and failures. We discuss how were pursuing our writing goals and what our long-term plans are. I […]
Well, it’s Valentine’s Day. I thought I might take this opportunity to relate one of my biggest challenges when it comes to writing: love and sex in fiction. In my first book, “Chemical Burn,” the main character (Justin Case) is an alien ex-government assassin who essentially fell to earth and then set up as a
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I’ve got a panel coming up for CoSine 2013 and decided to do a bit more research than normal. In this case the panel will discuss whether or not the makers of “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” are justified in stretching out the original novel “The Hobbit: There and Back Again” into three movies. I
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Betsy Dornbusch got me involved in this little escapade called “The Next Big Thing.” Being the non-conformist that I am (have you seen my hair?), I decided to do “The Next Big Things” because I’m about to finish up one project and start another. What is the working title of your next book? Jake Lasater and
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I’ve been contemplating the nature of the culture and government of my 1871 Roswell society. I’m at that point in the new book where I have to define it and lay the groundwork for future memory. As I contemplated this on the drive in to my day job this morning, something occurred to me. Government
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So, I sat down at my day-gig and ran a quick run-through of FB headlines. You never know what you might trawl up from there, and I got lucky over the past two days. And NO, I’m not talking about some hottie from Zodicus Zu’ul… (although some of what that guy posts is positively UberHotness.)
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I haven’t blogged in about a week. The reason is that I’m diligently working on wrapping up Jake Lasater’s first novel. I have a handful of chapters to go, a full-on edit and then a typo edit, with some peer-review mixed in for good measure. However, as folks in my writing group last night went
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I’ve been meaning to write this for about a week now. I finally got to sit down on my back porch, kick back with the laptop in an old, fairly beat up Lazy Boy and get some writing done, so no more interruptions will let me finish this little bit of anecdote. As you may
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