And so, another month has passed without an entry here ( Read more... )

I've been working on a particular short story, another tale featuring my character Milne from my story "Chasing Satellites," on and off for several months now. I started the story intending to send it to an open call for an anthology on "alien artifacts," but blew that deadline completely.  Over the past few days, I've put extra effort in getting ( Read more... )

Well, okay, not "we" but "I ( Read more... )

2016 Book 04: Writing The Novel From Plot to Print to Pixel by Lawrence Block; asin 9781522858874; 264 pages; LB Books; Kindle edition; $9.99

The Premise: (from Goodreads): Lawrence Block, the award-winning crime fiction author, is almost as well known for his instructional books for writers, and contributed a monthly column on fiction to Writers ( Read more... )

In the midst of the first travel swing of 2016. Technically, it started last week with teaching a workshop in Parsipanny NJ, which meant staying in the hotel there two nights, but as I was only 20 minutes from home I don't really consider it "travel." However, this week I've been in the Philly area (Langhorne PA to be precise) since Sunday night, ( Read more... )

Putting up all these reading posts, and haven't really talked about my writing in 2015. Well, I sort-of did, with the link to my first website post of 2016, but some of you who are interested may not have clicked on that link ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I've posted anything but reviews here. There's a lot I could journal about (various personal and work life ups-and-downs) but for the moment I want to answer a question a few friends have asked via email: "what's going on with your writing?" It being the tail-end of November 1st, and thus the first day of NaNoWriMo, this ( Read more... )

Is it bad that short story rejection letters from publishers no longer surprise me? My reaction is more of a “yep, saw that coming” even when I know the story fit the magazine’s or anthology’s open call guidelines. Not that the rejections don’t add to already existing depression, which has been heavy the past week. But the rejections aren’t a ( Read more... )

Where the heck did the past 10 days go ( Read more... )

Well, hello there ( Read more... )