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My kids’ story, Beware the Easter Moon, is available on Kindle for free this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.  (It’s exclusive on Amazon until, um, July something, so if you need a copy in another format, contact me.) Beware the Easter Moon by De Kenyon Colin’s tired of Grandpa stealing kids’ chocolate Easter eggs. So he […]

In brief, the news this week is…still trying to get my head screwed back on.  I may be done learning Wonderful New Things for a bit, as my brain is screaming at me to stop thinking, and how often does that happen?  Rarely. This story was originally published in Crossed Genres #30. Available at Smashwords, Amazon.com, B&N, and

I finally finished a rewrite on a short story that I like, that keeps getting rejected.  I ended up…I don’t know, maybe saving two particularly clever lines and a handful of ones generic enough not to need changing.  Plot?  Different.  Character voices?  Different.  Settings?  Different for the last half of the story.  One of those

Okay, if you just want the cover and blurb, scroll down till you see the cover.  There aren’t any spoilers in the following (other than a very rough clue about the kind of ending it has), and it’s all talk about how and why I put the story together the way I did. — This

I dream of getting back into a routine…but it just ain’t happening right now.  I’m going through an awesome if somewhat disruptive learning process right now, complete with attendant mood swings (“I can’t write worth a damn!” “This is so much more awesome than anything I’ve written before!” etc.), and I’m not sure which way

I have a new article up at Indie Author News: There’s a lot of good advice I didn’t take because I didn’t understand it at the time. Granted, taking advice before I’m ready for it isn’t smart–like taking the training wheels off my bike before I have a sense of balance. But now I have

I just got back from the Pikes Peak Writers’ Conference, and boy, is my brain tired.  But I had to write this down…I was talking to Chris Mandeville about feeling like a failure as a writer at one point during the conference.  I said something like, “And then I realized I was feeling extremely negative,

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 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

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