The West Virginia Writers Summer Conference was held June 6-8 at Cedar Lakes Conference Center in Ripley, WV, and I think it’s fair to say that a great time really was had by all. Well, I suppose someone may not have enjoyed it, but I didn’t meet anyone who didn’t have a great time, and […]
I’m quite excited by the progress I’m making on my Sam Stone prequel novella, Sam Stone Came Home, which will be available free once it’s finished for everyone on my mailing list. To pique your interest, here’s a short excerpt from the first chapter. I hope you like it! A gust of wind swirled a […]
As an author, aspiring to be successful, one of the things I’ve been told I should probably do is to build a network on at least one social media platform. After giving it some thought, I decided to concentrate on Threads. It’s simple, has a strong indie author community, and the people (mostly) seem […]
I was a big fan of Magnum P.I. as a young adult, and an even bigger fan of Blue Bloods as an old adult. I was also big into the TV treatments of Louis L’Amour’s Sacketts and Travens. I’m absolutely crazy about the Jesse Stone movies, which are based on books by my favorite author, […]
I can definitely say Remarkably Bright Creatures, by Shelby Van Pelt is the best book that included an octopus narrator. So I don’t seem to be damning it with faint praise, let me say it would be a really good book even if it had all been narrated by non-cephalopods. But I would also like […]
Now that I’ve finished the rough draft of my new Sam and Meg Stone Mystery, I’ve taken a week off before I jump into revisions. During this time, I’ve been thinking about what comes next. There are lots of steps before it actually meets the public. Some of them are completely straightforward; others are as […]
It took weeks longer than I expected, and that’s weeks of actual work, not of putting it off. It’s also about 10,000 words longer than I expected, which explains how long it took. But I finally wrote those two magical words: The End. Of course, it isn’t the end. It’s just the end of the […]
Life got crazy and then I got sick, so my challenge to finish my rough draft in ten days died on the vine. But my plan is to finish it by end of business tomorrow, Friday, February 21. I’ll do a longer post tomorrow, assuming I do what I say I’m going to do. […]
Just a quick check-in to update everyone on my progress in my challenge to write 20,000 words or finish my rough draft, whichever comes first, by Monday, February 10. I’m happy to say that since I gave myself the challenge on Friday, I’ve written 3048 words. That may not seem like the progress I need, […]