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I wandered down some weird mental roads while on my various road trips lately.  Wyoming and backroads South Dakota tend to do that to me. For the last year or so, I’ve been working to lessen the presence of anger in my life, because it makes me uncomfortable.  I feel like there are better things […]

Is your local indy bookstore a good one or not? How do you know? I went to two bookstores over the weekend, while I was on the road, that ended up clarifying this for me.  I’ve seen the same types of things at other bookstores, both bad and good, but this trip solidified things for

Any sufficiently developed idea related to information theory that a writer may have for a story will lead to the Stephenson Conclusion, that is, “Neal Stephenson already wrote it.” I’m reading The Information by James Gleick.  It does not list Stephenson in the index, despite being so far a lengthy, step-by-step rehash of his books.

The saga continues…the theme of the day seems to be, “Point it out but don’t necessarily edit it to death.” Tense I’m not going to go into the fine art of selecting tenses much here; my goal is not to be a book on perfecting your style and grammar, but how to edit.  However, I

I now have books up at AllRomance/OmniLit, in PDF format only: DeAnna Knippling De Kenyon Kitty Lafontaine I attempted to use Calibre to convert other file types as well…oh, man.  That’s going to be quite the learning curve.  But that’s publishing for you:  behind every story that goes up at a different website, there’s a

When I was doing tech editing, the first thing I would do was format.  One, I like formatting (so sue me), and two, I felt like it allowed me to get a feel for what was going to be in the document. Now, however, I do my text editing first and format editing second, on

I have reviews on “The Society of Secret Cats.” Julie says: I really enjoyed this – kind of like “Where the Wild Things Are” mixed with a bit of Lewis Carroll and a dash of J.R.R. Tolkien with the scary spider creatures. My only complaint really is that it seems almost like too big of

Something that finally hit home over the trip was that I lots of people, personally, who now read ebooks.  A lot of them are close family and friends. I realized that I didn’t want them to have to pay for ebooks.  They’ve done enough in my life, one way or another, that I can’t really

Happy Independence Day!   Some highlights from the trip…   Ray and I drove to Hot Springs, SD, so she could go the rest of the way to Flandreau for Grandparent Camp, that is, to stay with her grandparents for 10 days or so.  We left on Wednesday morning.  Sunday night, she was like, “So…what

I am off to drop off Ray at Grandparent camp, after three days of, “Is it time to go yet?”  This log will more than likely remain quiet until next week after the holiday…have a lovely week!