I've spent some time thinking about my do-over plot... I can't seem to make it work. In fact, all of the plot holes that existed in the first draft are the parts that I can't make work this time around. Putting it very vaguely, I have a situation, and I know pretty much how the situation will end. But how did that situation come to be in the first ( Read more... )

I finished a couple of things this week. First, I finished my short story for the After Death... anthology by Dark Moon Books and submitted it. It's called "An Hour Upon the Stage," taken from a Macbeth quote. I really like the story, but I worry it might not be dark enough for the anthology. The guidelines say they are looking for dark, sci-fi and ( Read more... )

I've just gone through a very long, dry spell in writing. This includes both the initial writing stage, as well as having my finished work accepted. I have only had two stories published since I began writing in earnest in early 2010. "Clock Watchers" has been published twice, so that means I've had 3 acceptances. Everything I submitted after that ( Read more... )

So, I did a little delving into the ins and outs of publishing children's books. More specifically, the books I'm referring to are called picture books, as opposed to chapter books or young adult. There is a vast amount of very useful information, and it would take me forever to go through all of it, but here's the gist of what I've picked up so ( Read more... )

My daughter loves to draw. She is an excellent writer too, but her true love is drawing. And she's good at it! She wants to do it for a living, if possible, and even considered studying graphic arts in college. However, the graphic arts job market is sort of saturated right now, and drawing is a little like writing in that, if you're good, people  ( Read more... )