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Wednesday Wanderings

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I recently watched the Amazon Prime series Good Omens, an adaptation of the brilliantly funny book by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.  I very much enjoyed it, but I felt as if it would be much less enjoyable if I weren’t familiar with the book.&n…

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It’s no secret that I have problems with brevity.  The sweet spot lengthwise for short stories, for me, is usually between six to eight thousand words, over the word count limit for many markets.  I do well with flash fiction, but that’s a di…

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I’ve been debating if I want to start writing a new short story, to flex those muscles while I’m working up to my next novel project.  From a business standpoint, I’m not sure if it makes sense; I currently have a sizable backlog of unsold stories…

End of a Chapter

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Yesterday, I finished my final editing pass on Unnatural Causes, my fantasy novel.  Just a few days ago, a memory came up in my Facebook feed announcing I had finished the first draft … four years ago.  There’s been a lot of water unde…

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 Brace yourselves:  like so many others, I’m going to talk about Game of Thrones (the show) – the most recent episode and beyond into this final season.People have complained that after all the buildup about the Night King and the armies of t…

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So as I continue to do planning for my next novel, I’ve come to realize I will probably need to build a glossary for both point of view characters.  The magic system involves synesthesia, and both characters are magic-users.  Their forms of s…

Story sale!

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I’ve just sold my fantasy story “Waterways” (which has a particularly entertaining backstory that I’ll share … some day) to StoryHack Action and Adventure, due out in Issue #6 (probably near the end of the year).

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Happy (slightly belated) book birthday to Scylla and Charybdis!  My sprawling, epic science fiction novel came out in April of 2018.  It garnered some lovely reviews, and I’m still terribly proud of it … especially as I never thought of sci…