Writing

The Table of Contents for Blood and Water has been posted. It’s an honor to be included in such good company. Drowntown by Camille Alexa Bubbles and Boxes by Julie Czerneda Phoebastria by Jennifer Rahn Hard Water by Christine Cornell Rabbit Season by Fiona Moore…

I’m pleased to announce my first short story sale. Storm will be appearing in Blood and Water, an anthology edited by Hayden Trenholm, and published by Bundoran Press. Blood and Water will gather the stories of the new resource wars that will mark the next…

2011 has been an interesting year for me. Basically, the year has been a bit of a write off. I’ve been under renovations since August 2010, and that can throw a serious wrench into the best laid plans. Bring in 2012. I’ve got big plans…

We had to go to using reCaptcha to separate bots trying to be users from real users. I know it’s a pain, but the bots were taking over.

Well, it’s been awhile since I posted anything here. The good news is that I’ve been busy. The bad news is I haven’t been busy writing. Just to let you know what I’ve been working on, take a look at this: (This used to be…

You’ve done the research. You’ve done the plotting. You know your characters. The outline is (mostly) complete. Now it’s time to get your butt in the chair and do the real work. And it’s so hard. Every word on the page oozes a disgusting odor…

I’m a member of a fabulous on-line writing group called Backspace. Many of our members are published authors, and I made an offer to them. Write a guest blog, on (almost) any topic you like, and I’ll post a link to their book(s) in the side panel. There’s…

The article is on World Building in fantasy. The author goes into research and using the real world in his world building. The video is fantastic! From: Worldbuilding Fantasy, Using Reality

Carl Sagan was a Professor of Astronomy and Space Science and Director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, but most of us know him as a Pulitzer Prize winning author and the creator of COSMOS. That Emmy and Peabody award-winning PBS television…