In lieu of a ‘Sunday Reflection,’ I am taking a minute to update my progress on my current novel, The Colder Moon. The third book in my new series, The Wandering, it is due to my publisher at the end of December. I’ve been running a bit behind, but after a pretty good week last[…]
It’s time for my Sunday Reflection, in which I post some of my thoughts on almost any issue connected to writing, faith or life in general. Last Sunday I wrote about the joy of knowing (and using) the ‘right word’ in any given situation. The more you read and experience the English language, the more[…]
It’s time for my Midweek Recommendation, in which I commend to your attention books or music or movies or anything I find worth recommending. All right, so maybe I’m cheating a little bit, but I’m going to talk about my new novel The Darker Road for this week’s ‘midweek recommendation.’ For those of you who[…]
It’s time for my Sunday Reflection, in which I post some of my thoughts on almost any issue connected to writing, faith or life in general. Have you ever been in a conversation where the person you were talking to started a sentence, then paused, seeming to search for not any word, but a particular[…]
While I wait for the release of The Darker Road, the first book of my new fantasy series, The Wandering, I am trying to get book three of the series started in earnest. I’ve written much of the prologue, enough to register a full 2% of the projected length of the book. So, I thought[…]
You hear stories from time to time of famous writers or famous composers – or whomever – and how some popular book or piece of theirs was something they personally didn’t like very much, or conversely, how some obscure, unpopular creation was their favorite even though it never took off. It makes me wonder if[…]
While there are many challenges in ‘indie’ publishing, one of the really beautiful things is the creative control you retain in areas that normally you don’t have much say in, and cover art would be one of those areas. I’m very excited about the story in The Raft, The River, and The Robot, (the book[…]
It took a little longer than expected, but the Amazon page for the paperback version of Avalon Falls is up and the paperback is available. The cost for the paperback is $11.99, and it can be bundled with other Amazon items to get the free ‘SuperSaver Shipping’ if you’d like. The ebook version is $2.99[…]
So, I have 4 different writing projects at various stages of development. Here are the updates on all 4… Avalon Falls AKA, ‘the Crime novel’ I received the Kindle file of Avalon Falls and read through it, noting a few places to make corrections, and I’ve sent it back to the interior design company that’s[…]