One could call it a coincidence—mere happenstance—but I prefer to consider it portent. I just got back from the 2013 Superstars writing seminar with Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, James A. Owen, Eric Flint and Tracy Hickman as instructors. I’ll be delving into some of what I learned there in an upcoming post, but what I want […]
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I got my hard-copies from WordFire Press today. Both The Pandora Sequence and Five by Five arrived today. For those of you who didn’t know, I’ve been doing some production work for WordFire, including eBook conversions and interior book design / layouts. Thus far I’ve worked on titles written or including work by Kevin Anderson, Rebecca
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A big piece of the writing biz is networking, which is ironic since most writers tend to be introverts stuck indoors and chained to their desks. But the truth is that you just never know where your next opportunity might come from. So, one morning I’m at my day job when a FB message pops up. It’s
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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
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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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.)
Inspiriation: 50% Weirdness, 50% External Input, 50% Science, and 7% Cigars & Scotch Read More »
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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