Tag Archives: writing

Trudging along in the ebook jungles

Posted on April 21, 2013 by

In the spirit of ROW80, I’ll try to emphasize what I did get done this week, rather than what I didn’t. Once I sent Chameleon in a Mirror sent off to my critique partner, I’ve mostly been working on writing … Continue reading →

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A new book for a new year: From Earth to Mars and Beyond

Posted on January 2, 2013 by

Happy new year, everyone! To celebrate 2013, I got my new collection of stories, From Earth to Mars and Beyond, finished and uploaded to Amazon: This one won’t be going into KDP Select, since several of the stories are available … Continue reading →

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The Next Big Thing: Musing on my time travel with Aphra Behn

Posted on October 24, 2012 by

I was tagged by Renata Barcelos to explain why my novel is going to be the Next Big Thing. *g* But seriously, the blog hop is more about stopping by different blogs to discover new writers, or maybe a great … Continue reading →

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“The Next Big Thing,” upcoming freebies, and hiatus announcement

Posted on October 17, 2012 by

I was tagged today in a blog hop, “The Next Big Thing”: This particular blog hop was started as an opportunity to learn about the work of independent authors, one blog at a time. If you would like the chance … Continue reading →

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Author feature of me on the Kindle Boards blog today: From traditional publishing to indie

Posted on September 26, 2012 by

The Kindle Boards blog has a very nice profile of me today, “From traditional publishing to indie.” Harvey from the Kindle Boards also sent me the code for a nifty badge: Also a reminder that the Codex Writers Ebook Promo … Continue reading →

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By Popular Demand: Pantsers, Plotters, and — Puzzlers!

Posted on September 16, 2012 by

Over on Karen Huber’s blog a few days back, I mentioned a term I snapped up somewhere, an alternative to the two writing poles of plotters and pantsers — the puzzler. Several people in the comments were quite enthusiastic about … Continue reading →

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Going indie and writing morale

Posted on June 20, 2012 by

I’ve been at this writing business for a long time now — and if you count all the years I was writing without any success getting published even longer. I sold my first short story to Asimov’s in 2000, and … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Rereading a Tale of High Passion

Posted on December 19, 2011 by

Ah, my heart! my heart! It is weary without her. I would that I were as the winds which play about her! For here I waste and I sicken, and nought is fair To mine eyes: nor night with stars … Continue reading →

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Villa Diodati Workshop Report

Posted on December 14, 2011 by

I meant to write this report some time ago, but life around were was crazy after I got back from the workshop and a short trip to Alsace. A bit of background first: the Villa Diodati Workshop is our “local” … Continue reading →

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How Much Blog is Enough Blog? Or; how I doubled my fiction output in just one month!

Posted on November 20, 2011 by

I’ve been doing some reassessing (as well as a lot of fiction writing!), and both are part of the reason I haven’t been posting to my blog much lately. I’ve met tons of wonderful people through the blogosphere, but at … Continue reading →

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