Updates

My current word count on Called from the Ashes is 6869. Very pleasing.

Also: new blog entry today.

New blog entry today; stuff about books -- mine and not mine.

My latest round of typing shows I've passed 5000 words on Freed, the new book in the This Dark Road series! And it only took me...

*checks notes*

... seven months.

Eeeyeah, never...

I've made the first chapters of both of my new books available for free on my Patreon page. (At least, the first drafts of the first chapters, which may turn out to be longer...

The bookmarks I designed on Zazzle arrived today! As the picture shows, there's one for each book. I've already thought of ways to improve them for the next time I order some....

My books, and my daughter Heather's books, are soon going to be for sale in a real live bookstore! We've had books in a couple of local shops before, but this is our first time...

Okay, not really new. But you might notice that I've added new links for all my books, which lead to my Ko-fi shop. If you follow those links, you might further notice that the...

This one is for paid members only, because it's some thoughts about and the opening of the latest in the This Dark Road series, tentatively titled Freed.

I posted an essay I wrote for Wattpad in 2011 about the business side of writing. Check it out in the blog.

I've posted an old interview in my blog. Check it out -- with the caveat that it was originally done in 2017.

For some unexplained reason, Amazon has decided to change its royalty rate for print books priced below $9.99 from 60% to 50%, starting June 10th. Further unexplained is why...

I'm currently "in talks" to have a comic made of my short story "Disinterested", which appears in Now and Then, Then Now and also in the previous edition of Unlikely Muses. Very...

I posted a new blog entry, which is actually an old article I wrote for the website/zine Toasted Cheese several years ago. (Does the site still exist? Don't know; don't really...

I posted a short blog entry about the next book in the This Dark Road series. Check it out by clicking on the "blog" link at the top of the page.

I always like looking at these, and sharing them. Of course, there are still 13 days left in the year; I'm pretty sure I'll finish at least one more book before the end of...

I finished the publication process today, and Now and Then, Then Now is officially a real book! It's in the Kindle store now and will soon be available as a paperback too....

Well, I decided to decide, since nobody had any advice for me. (I was kind of hoping somebody would just up and tell me what I should do, but no dice.) I'm splitting my...

I've been playing with my documents and I figured it out: I can either have two short-story collections -- one with just the time-traveler stories, and the other with the rest...

What do you do with a day like today, when it looks like your most dystopian fiction is bound to be left in the dust by reality? I just don't know. Part of me feels like there...

One of the things I'd like to do here, either in brief update or longer blog form, is book reviews. However, I'd like to wait to do my first one until I finish a book that a)...