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December 2015 Goals

· Writing

I didn’t get a chance to do everything on my November list, which is kinda sad since it only had two items on it. Still, I got the big one done. November goals: Here are my December goals. Another short, but extremely busy, list: Complete…

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November 2015 Goals

· Goals, Writing

A bit late, but here they are: October Goals: As you can see, I’ve been so busy with The Operative that I didn’t get much else done. Here are the November goals: Complete first draft of The Operative Plan my convention list for next year…

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October 2015 Goals

· Writing

Let’s start with a recap of the September Goals: It’s not good if don’t finish something your publisher wants. I got too involved in writing the darn thing. So here’s the October goals: Short but sweet. There’s a lot of work ahead.

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New Book(s) Announcement

· blog, Writing

I am so pleased to announce the sale of The Operative and The Rebel to Sheila Gilbert at DAW, by Sara Megibow at kt literary. Film: Jerry Kalajian of IPG. Back in July, I finished polishing the first fifty pages of The Operative and completed…

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September 2015 Goals

· Goals, Writing

It looks like I missed a few goal postings. Let’s see if I can do better. My last goals were: Overall, pretty good. There was a fair amount of hard work in there. Last month I attended WorldCon and had a discussion with my editor…

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The Courier – Cover Reveal

· Writing

Over the last couple of weeks, I attended two conventions: When Words Collide in Calgary, Alberta (a must for writers of genre fiction), and Sasquan/Worldcon in Spokane, Washington. A lot of wonderful things happened at Worldcon, but one of my highlights is the cover of…

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June 2015 Goals

· Writing

First, a summary of how I did on last months goals. So, not too bad, I guess. My reading at Keycon went okay. I’ll need to practice more before the books launch. For June, this is what I hope to do: That’s quite a lot, especially…

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May Goals

· Goals, Writing

I’m going to steal a page from Chadwick Ginther‘s book, and try posting monthly goals here. I’m hoping that going public with my goals will on a somewhat monthly basis will not only help me keep them, but help me understand why I didn’t achieve…

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Cover Artist for The Courier

· Writing

Things are moving along here. Sheila Gilbert, my editor at DAW, and I had a great discussion about the cover design for The Courier. She wanted to get Cliff Nielsen, the artist for Cassandra Clare’s City of Bones series, Tanya Huff’s The Silvered, E.C. Ambroses’s…

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Keycon 2015 Schedule

· Writing

I’ll be at KeyCon in Winnipeg again this year. Here is my tentative schedule: Sat, 10am- Your Query Package How to ‘lure’ in an agent and/or editor Sat, 12pm- Reading (with Adam Knight) I’ll be reading from ‘The Courier’, my novel coming out from DAW…

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