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I think I’m going to just have to add walking (most) clients through their royalty calculators to my interior print layout services. Because what happens is I ask them, “How many pages do you want the interior to be, approximately?” and they say, “Oh, whatever looks good.” This is a bad, bad idea. Okay.  Let’s […]

A writer torn between two genres, two worlds…and Horror always cheats. If only the best writer of his generation, Richard O’Shea, had come down clearly on one side or the other between the horror and fantasy genres, none of this would have happened. But he didn’t, and now both worlds play dirty to get his

Strong language and adult situations, for those of you who find such thing appealing.  I was thinking…I particularly like those stylized black and white covers.  Here’s a version that fits my short story template. A writer torn between two genres, two worlds…and Horror always cheats. If only the best writer of his generation, Richard O’Shea,

Last weekend was the Pikes Peak Urban Gardens’ garlic festival.  It wasn’t big, and there wasn’t as much garlic as you might have expected.  I mean, a garlic festival, you expect things to reek of garlic.  You expect a six-foot dancing garlic bulb and a raw garlic eating contest.  Roast meat slathered in garlic–perhaps even

Now (or soon) available at Amazon, B&N, Smashwords, Apple, Kobo, Powell’s, and more. What if cats were really there to guard your dreams? Lost in the Forest of Dreams, the dashing, handsome cat Ferntail must rescue his human girl from her horrible nightmares, nightmares that come from outside her mind. Will a mysterious and beautiful

This one is late this week because…erm…I found more typos than I could live with.  So–this will be up until next Wednesday, if you please. Also!  A preview of the forthcoming “King of Cats” follows the story.  Sooo happy with that one. What if cats were really there to guard your dreams? Lost in the

Now (or soon) available at Amazon, B&N, Smashwords, Apple, Kobo, Powell’s, and more. What if cats were really there to guard your dreams? Lost in the Forest of Dreams, the dashing, handsome cat Ferntail must rescue his human girl from her horrible nightmares, nightmares that come from outside her mind. Will a mysterious and beautiful cat from The Society

When you are reading or writing a story, what comes before the story? Well, if you’re a plotter, you might answer “an outline,” which is a rather literal interpretation of that question.  Or “character development” or “theme” or what have you.  But no, that’s not where I’m headed. When you are reading or writing a

I’ve been studying books this summer.  Books, short stories, even movies.  Let me tell you, the more I work on this the more I think that it’s the way to go.   So stop reading this stupid blog and go study a book! How should I study it, you ask, because you’re smart and you

Mr. Hightower snorted.  “At any rate, it’s only you, dear Rachael, that we need, not these others. They can go.” Returning home again after the terrible events at Xanadu House, Rachael Baptiste has learned not to trust humans…because they might be part of the Lighthouse Parents, a hostile group out to arrest and destroy the Exotics.