The usual caveats apply… Finished the short story for the upcoming Library anthology!!! “Okay, pick a set of guards. I’ll talk to Mac and see who he wants helping him. Probably gonna be One Eye, as usual.” Tiny shuddered. “Better … Continue reading
Is AI a threat to authors? Probably… Actual authors slave over novels for months at a minimum, years in some cases. AI authors can write one in a couple of hours… First, a true story, written by me. As a … Continue reading
We’re doing another library anthology this year!!! The Roaring Library Theme: 1920’s Texas – the Roaring Twenties Length: 5000-8000 words long Send us your stories! They need to be set in the 1920s in Texas, not necessarily in a library, … Continue reading
I had Fred Hughes on my YouTube channel yesterday. We talked about writing, co-writing with another author (with examples), writing in someone else’s IP, branding, and marketing, among other things. We each write differently, but with the same goals, get … Continue reading
Sixteen stories edited, approved, and rough formatting done for the benefit anthology for the Tom Burnett Library! Yes, I’m a week late on getting it done, no excuses, but it’s over the fence to the people who are doing the … Continue reading
Jamie Wilson is back with another in her series about tradpub and what they are doing and not doing… My first literary convention was in Evanston, Ind. A man I admired (and would one day marry) convinced me to come … Continue reading
Whew… What a couple of weeks… I made a promise to myself that I would ‘give back’ to the writer’s community by reading folks novels/stories as an alpha or beta reader. And I do that… But, I didn’t expect to … Continue reading
Is both a writer’s lifeline, and the bane of their existence… Research takes time away from actual productivity, but it’s also necessary if you want readers to actually read your books. Nothing is worse that errors that cause a reader … Continue reading
More from The Grey Man- Vignettes This is the last segment. I was still playing with how much detail was needed, and how much was ‘enough’ to set the scenes. One of the 1 star reviews on the book was that … Continue reading
More from The Grey Man- Vignettes In this chapter, I continued the character ‘development’ as as Dot said on the last post, ‘foreshadowed’ the Aaron and Jesse relationship. The other thing I did with this one was play with how … Continue reading