New Half-Year’s Resolutions
Most normal people wait for the end of December to roll around before deciding on New Year’s Resolutions. I, however, have never been called normal and don’t feel like waiting the six months. So here are my Half-Year’s Resolutions. Write 150,000 words of new fiction. This averages to a little under 6000 words each week. […]
Surviving the Kris Rusch Death March
I’m writing this from gate D9 at the Portland, Oregon airport, waiting for my flight back to Boston after spending over a week on the Oregon Coast. I’m tired but very excited about my writing and what the future holds. I was one of eighteen professional writers working with Kristine Kathryn Rusch (and at the […]
“All Over Again” released
Pentucket Publishing has released my short story “All Over Again” in all electronic formats. Sample the opening scenes to this dark fantasy. Walter and Edith have lived a satisfying life together. But an anonymous fiftieth anniversary gift offers a chance to be twenty years old all over again. For one of them. Available for 99 cents in […]
New website design
Hope you like the new website design. Eventually, I’d like to add a more flashy header, but I like the way I can better display my available books with this format. The more flashy header will come sooner or later. Not to mention that the really cool Amazon carousel didn’t fit the old theme.
You Can’t “Just Write”
Maybe in the old days, a writer could “just write” and let a paternalistic (or maternalistic) agent take care of all that nasty business stuff. But not anymore. You’ve got to be reading the posts by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith, Passive Guy, Mike Stackpole, and more. Kris, Dean, and Mike have all agreed on […]
Cracking the Ice – blurb #4
I’ve been sharing blurbs for Cracking the Ice, my novel due out in July and here’s another. (A blurb is that glowing quote that when potential readers see it on the cover, prompts them to plunk down their hard-earned cash.) This next blurb comes from Jewell Parker Rhodes, author of Ninth Ward, a 2011 Coretta […]
Reading list
I’ll be taking a Short Story Writing workshop soon with the incomparable Kristine Kathyrn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith. Here’s the reading list of five anthologies that I need to read in six weeks. Care to join me? Best American Short Stories 2007 edited by Stephen King Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume […]
A $23 million book or Online pricing run amuck
Check out this story about a book — one in developmental biology about flies, of all things — that eventually rose to a price of over twenty-three million dollars on Amazon. Presumably it had the ultra-deluxe cover.
Bubba Goes for Broke released
Pentucket Publishing has just released my crime caper novel, Bubba Goes for Broke, written under the pen name David Bawdy. It’s available in all electronic formats; a trade paperback will be released in the summer. Since it’s an R-rated novel — you might call it bawdy — I felt compelled to use a pen name to distinguish this book from my […]