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It always happens sometime around the end of August. I’ll be standing in the sun, smelling the new-mown grass, the sunscreen and the corn pollen and then suddenly…I recognize something in the slant of the sunlight. And in the middle of the close summer heat, something deep inside me whispers, “Oh boy, here it comes.”… Continue reading Then Autumn Took Hold…

If you want to be a doctor, you go to medical school and they tell you what to do for about seven years. You get your degree and you train, and you don’t really have to go figuring out how to remove tonsils just by going in there and snipping random stuff. If you want… Continue reading I Have No Idea What I’m Doing: a mini memoir

So, I thought it would only be fair to stop my insane last-week-of-NaNoWriMo writing and tell anyone within hearing some news from the wonderfully generous world of indie authors. There is a huge sale going on through Cyber Monday. There are over 150 clean indie books in a wide variety of genera on sale for… Continue reading BLACK FRIDAY! a huge selection of indie books available

I felt I should take a break from promoting Dronefall and share a review of a recent read. What? I get assigned a random book to read and review by an indie author I’ve never heard of, in a genre that often disappoints me and I…actually kind of liked it? What sorcery is this? It’s… Continue reading Review of Akrad’s Children

I have something for you all. If you read the title of this post, you probably know what it is, so I won’t tell you. Here, you can read it. As long as people jumped off trains, there would be hope for the world.   They called the Trans-Pest Express “The Blindworm.” It was really an… Continue reading Excerpt from Dronefall Chapter One

NEW YEAR! 2018 Welcome to 2018 everyone. I don’t know quite when it happened, but sometime within the past decade I transitioned from pronouncing the first two digits “Two-Thousand” and started saying “Twenty.” So, I will say again, welcome to Twenty-Eighteen.   I have, of course, as always, a lot of ambitious plans and unrealistic… Continue reading Seven Plans for Twenty-Eighteen

Antihero: a protagonist characterized by lack of traditional heroic values There’s a dictionary-style definition for reference. Examples of this kind of character range from Disney’s Elsa to Marvel’s Loki. There’s probably an even wider spectrum than that. For some reason, people are drawn to characters who wreak havoc. I’ve come across several articles suggesting why.… Continue reading Untitled

  Hey, guess what? I got to do an interview on another writer’s blog. Many thanks to Jack at However Improbable for hosting me! Here’s the link. Check it out. http://www.jacklewisbaillot.com/2015/11/i-dont-trust-you-miss-ethel-dont-go-in.html

Hey. So, I’ve done a lot of general “fiction writers’ advice” so far. I thought I’d start a series soon on clichés. It’s always fun for me to find ways around typical fiction clichés, and I’ll try to make it fun for you too.  I also am going to start occasionally including feature posts on… Continue reading Series Starting Soon

I always stare at graffiti on train cars and wonder…. The Red Robin a red robin is traced in bleeding paint not red like a rose or a rubylike blood–thin bloodnot bright and fresh, but not dry yetthe silhouette of the perching thrush is a shadow on the tanker cara bird that migrates by train the symbol of something someone perhaps the rainy… Continue reading The Red Robin