I’ve been trying to keep track of both my LJ and my own blog comments for some time, and it has really become cumbersome. So, though I don’t like forcing people to my blog, I’m turning off the LJ comments. I hope this doesn’t keep all my friends from hopping on over to chat…
It feels good to be on the far side of halfway. The story actually feels like less than half, though I’ll admit that the ending is a bit fuzzy, so who knows. I don’t imagine it’ll end up being any more than 140k. I’ve been pretty happy to realize that the organic approach, within the [...]
Today I read in USAToday an article nominally about Stephen King’s new book, Duma Key. There was, however, a very insightful line from Wordsworth I’ve never heard before. King was speaking of how the main character has injuries that parallel those he sustained in Maine when a speeding van broke his hip, fractured his leg [...]
Associated with each of the entries in the Amazon contest was a Publishers Weekly review of the entire novel plus two reviews of the excerpt (5,000 words) from Amazon top reviewers. Well, they finally came out today. Here’s what PW had to say about my entry, Captured by Crystal: Manuscript review by Publishers Weekly, an [...]
Things are going well. I’m hitting roughly the 1/2 way mark. You know, I’m really jealous of people like Relby and Paul Genesse that are tackling more reasonably sized stories. Sigh. Well, I made my book bed. I suppose I’d better write in it. I just got to the Big Scene, where the main character [...]
I read on Patrick Rothfuss’s blog a while back that watching the Amazon ratings ticker is akin to crack. You get addicted to it, constantly refreshing the page to see if your rating has changed. Hopefully up, maybe down, but either way you’re like a little rewired rat pressing the button with your nose to [...]
Amazon, along with several sponsors, is running a novel contest called the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. The contest accepted 5,000 entrants in November, with progressive stages whittling the entrants down until a winner is finally chosen. I joined, submitting my second completed novel, Captured by Crystal. It’s a story that was written early in my [...]
No, not and interview with me, but I participated … does that count? Anyway, I conducted an interview with Anton Strout over at the Writers Symposium blog. Anton and his Trout are both a hoot, so go check it out when you have a bit 0f time.
The writers symposium group I mentioned a while back has another issue out. It has a few articles about writing by Jean Rabe as well as some info on the spotlight author: Anton and his Trout. Go check it out. I’ll also be posting an interview with Anton soon on the Writers Symposium Blog
You can order it now from Amazon or Barnes and Noble. For any fellow Clarionites in the audience, my story, “Cirque du Lumiere”, appears in this issue. There are also stories by my friends, Paul Genesse and Don Bingle. The inimitable Alan Dean Foster also appears in the anthology, edited by Kerrie Hughes and Martin [...]
I got a nice little bit of news this morning. Rich Horton provides a year-end summary of various magazines and he just posted a review of Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show, and he posted a nice mention of me as providing one of the standout novelettes.
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