April 2012

New kids’ fiction now available from Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes & Noble,with other sites to follow (Kobo, Apple, Sony). I’m trying something new… This is actually a two-story pack, with “The Test” and another kids’ story set in a fantasy world, “The Scaredy Wizard of Theornin.”  Both play around with Grimms’ fairy-tale themes. The Test by De Kenyon […]

New kids’ fiction now available from Amazon, Smashwords, and Barnes & Noble,with other sites to follow (Kobo, Apple, Sony). I’m trying something new… This is actually a two-story pack, with “The Test” and another kids’ story set in a fantasy world, “The Scaredy Wizard of Theornin.”  Both play around with Grimms’ fairy-tale themes. The Test

Into the heart of deepest Style Guide…the meat of the indie writer's copyediting checklist begins. http://t.co/HgnDNLJA # Powered by Twitter Tools

Goosebumps writer R.L. Stein wrote a short, bug-infested Twitter story in honor of Friday the 13th: Well, it’s Friday the 13th—my national holiday. To celebrate I wrote this story exclusively for you. It’s called THE BRAVE KID. Michael had no fear of Friday the 13th. His house was at 13 Endless Darkness Road. He was 13,

New fiction!  This is another book that’s going up on Kindle Direct Select, which means I’m leaving it up there exclusively for three months (until July 9).  I’ll announce when it’s available on other sites, but for now it’s at Amazon.com. If you buy an Amazon copy but need an additional file format, contact me at

New fiction!  This is another book that’s going up on Kindle Direct Select, which means I’m leaving it up there exclusively for three months (until July 9).  I’ll announce when it’s available on other sites, but for now it’s at Amazon.com. If you buy an Amazon copy but need an additional file format, contact me at

New fiction!  This is another book that’s going up on Kindle Direct Select, which means I’m leaving it up there exclusively for three months (until July 9).  I’ll announce when it’s available on other sites, but for now it’s at Amazon.com. If you buy an Amazon copy but need an additional file format, contact me

The indie editing series continues (starts here but the collective posts are here). — Line-editing the text in a work is what most people think of when they think of line edits.  And most people think of it as being relatively straightforward.  You check for correctness.  Either it’s correct or it isn’t, right? No.  It’s more clear-cut

Great!  Because the publishers don’t want you to. Pikes Peak Library District is calling out big publishers about not providing library copies of ebooks…or charging over $100 a copy…or only letting the library check out the book 26 times before they charge the library for a new copy. See their Facebook NOT eNOUGH page for

So it’s been a busy couple of weeks.  I went to a workshop out in Oregon:  The Character Voice & Setting Workshop with Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Katherine Rusch. As always, I’m left with the impression that I love the ocean, but being next to it for too long would be bad for me.