All right, confessional time in the old corral.

I've been shying away from writing Ring Of Fire #5 for a long time, partially because I've been occupied by other projects such as Living After Midnight, the false start but still-simmering Black Sunshine, and learning how to be a better guitar hero with my Ibanez. These things happen; especially ( Read more... )

I don't really update like I used to, do I?

Never mind, it's all part of my grand plan.  Surely you remember by plan for this year, how I was going to do less blogging and more actual writing?  So far, I've managed to stick to my guns.  I'm roughly a third done with Underworld... although it looks like I'll have to take an extended break from this ( Read more... )

I'm feeling jaunty because the editing to Backlash is finally done.  I managed to take a 140,000 word book and get it down to 88,233... and once again, I have to say that with editing almost everything gets better.  I know that there are certain writers out there who take a great point of pride in not letting one of the red-pen crowd near their ( Read more... )

This Just In: today at work, I got one of my co-workers at the bus company to agree to do NaNoWriMo.  I think there's another couple or so I can shanghai into doing it as well.  I'm going to get as many people as I can to join me in my personal hell, both in real life and on the old Internet, just you watch.  I'm a smooth-talking bastard.

If it ( Read more... )

No submissions as of yet for Crossroads; I've been busy dealing with the work trip.  Twelve-hour days are seemingly the norm at the bus company these days and while the overtime has accordingly racked up, it leaves very little time--or, truth be told, inclination--to leap outside the box.  I think that will come to an end this weekend, however.  It ( Read more... )

Good Monday morning to all of you... with the "good" being purely alleged.  I'm sitting here in the break room at work with my neck feeling like it's going to rip itself out of my body and go searching for serious paikillers, as somewhere during yesterday's fun-fun-fun session of Lifting And Carrying A Ton Of Shit On My Day Off I managed to either ( Read more... )

I've been going over my back catalog of novels during the last couple days, and have come to two inescapable conclusions. one delicious and one very much unsavory.

The Good News Is:  a quick word count has told me that Salvation's immediate follow-up, Covenant, is just over 91,000 words long.  At the very least, this means there will need to be a ( Read more... )