I got permission from the publisher, League Entertainment, to announce this yesterday. Greedily, I sat on the news for a while, savoring it all my lonesome. (Actually, I told myself I had to get my work done for the day before I could send it out, then beat my head against the wall for several […]

I finally got caught up on my short stories in my spreadsheet today.  Bad writer!  Bad! Here are the short story rejections I’ve received from April-present:  12* Here are the stories I’ve finished since April (8), when I started purposefully doing more of them: The Cargo of the Gods (SF) People Juice (Crime) The Cliff

What if you couldn't hire an accountant if you were bad at taxes? # What if you couldn't hire a decorator unless you knew your color wheel? # What if you couldn't hire a secretary unless you could prove you were a PowerPoint master? # I don't expect the clients to be able to communicate

Things are getting closer with the League Entertainment book.  Check out the “Member Blogs” section… www.leagueent.com And, soon… www.doompress.com

A few days ago, I had a breakthrough with my latest novel, currently called A Chance Damnation.  I had been plugging along with more or less success, turning the occasional nice phrase, moving the plot along, etc. Then, suddenly, I had no connection to my characters.  I couldn’t feel them, couldn’t imagine what they were doing.  I

C17 Chance done: It must have hit the ceiling above the hole, pulling the house inward and down as it fell. # Sorry, that was C18. # C17 was: "Jerome couldn’t breathe, and then he could, and then he couldn't." # Bang! # I shot an AK-47 yesterday. It was a letdown; I much preferred

During the course of a pretty bad month, I managed to finish the rest of the Taltos books out to date.  I ended up with some guesses; don’t read any more if you don’t want to hear anybody else’s thoughts on the matter. Tiassa: Khaavren will be in there. (Yay!) We will find out that

Time to pry Ray out of bed. # Made it back from SD again. Just exhausted. # Trying to get through my e-mail, but people keep sending me more. [Head spins.] # Looking Glass Wars by Frank Beddor – one of the better retellings of Lewis Carroll; inventive but not especially whimsical. # Darkly Dreaming

I’ve been writing a lot of short stories lately, pushed by something that Dean Wesley Smith said at the workshop – at one point, he wrote 44 short stories in a row, one a week.  Another thing he said:  if it takes more than a few hours to write a short story, you’re wasting your

We are safely home in COS. Had pollo con crema to celebrate. # I apologize; I'm waaaay behind after the SD trip. I'll get caught up ASAP. # Done with Procrustean Mirror. Taking break to unpack. “What’s in the box?” “Your marriage.” # Ambergate by Patricia Elliott – Beautifully flawed characters in character-driven plot, first