As you probably know by now, I’ve written a novel. I’m working on the second draft right now.
The gist: young woman living her life like any other normal person, suddenly finds herself neck deep in a mess that involves magic and a whole list of other things she’s always been told aren’t real.
I decided I [...]
Comic Books
If you’ve been hanging out here on the blog or on my twitter feed, you know by now that I am a huge comic book geek. I once had a monthly habit that was the equivalent of a car payment. Not a nice car. Not even a good car. Probably more like an ‘ok’ [...]
Star Trek: The Original Series.
Probably one of the strongest influences on my life from a very young age was the original Star Trek.
Rerun in syndication almost endlessly, the original Star Trek was huge in my life growing up. I knew the characters so well you’d think they were family. I could quote episodes like the [...]
I mentioned yesterday as part of this series of posts on ‘Influences’ that I’m doing this week, that a part of me felt like I was always treated like I was older than I actually was. This isn’t entirely a fiction of my brain, I think there’s some evidence to support this.
The Youngest.
Born in ‘72, [...]
So. Chapter 16 of the WILDLY POPULAR WEB SERIAL Evermist hits the Internet today. Are you excited?!
If you haven’t been reading it, I want you to know – you make me sad. I mean, here I am, slaving over this hot laptop, day and night, sweat sometimes forming on my brow (not really, but my [...]
I’m thinking about my writing today and writing in general. Thought I’d share.
I like to think that every writer, no matter their genre, struggles from time to time with how much detail to put into their works, and how much to leave out.
For myself, I have written long, expansive, detailed chapters full of descriptive passages [...]
The plan for the weekend is to lock myself away for as long as possible and try to really push on writing projects.
I know I haven’t talked about such things in a while, and there’s reasons for that. What sucks is that reasons start sounding like excuses if you say them often enough.
Reason #1 I [...]
I thought I would take a moment to summarize all the advice out there on the web and in books and magazines for us unpublished authors. Hopefully you will find this as insightful and illuminating as I have.
Here it is:
Write.
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Evermist is a new, serial science fiction piece being released as part of my, ‘Tales From The New Universe’ series. New episodes will be released every week over at the Evermist site! Don’t miss out on a single episode! Add it to your reader, bookmark it, hit ‘favorites’ – whatever you prefer, just don’t miss [...]
If you missed it last week, you may want to go check out Chapter 1 of my new scifi serial ‘Evermist’ over at: http://www.atfmb.com/Evermist. Chapter 2 drops today at 12:30 pm, mst!
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