Writing chunks
Have you ever looked at a big project, unsure how you would ever have the time, energy, or guts to finish it? It is overwhelming, unwieldy, and very, very frightening…. Read more »
Category: Books
ABNA
I did it. I entered Gray Zone into the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. Wish me luck, and send Gray Zone all the good thoughts you can spare. It is a Young… Read more »
Pitching into the new year
In January of this coming year I’ll be entering the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest with my YA novel, Gray Zone. I’ve held off getting it published just so I… Read more »
It’s alive!
Well, almost. I present to you, book #5. Monkeys on an Island will be available soon. Very soon! (It has a publication date of February 1, 2012, but books typically… Read more »
NaNoWriMo 2011
What is NaNoWriMo, you ask? National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as November. I participated in NaNoWriMo in 2009 and ended up with more than 50,000 words of Gray Zone… Read more »
Epiphany
As I wrote this morning I had a breakthrough. An epiphany. A shooting star of an idea. There had been a problem with my plot. I had not been able to figure… Read more »
Patience and thick skin needed
And so it begins again. That painful, tedious, humiliating process of trying to find an agent. With my first books I skipped this step, and went straight to the publishers. Since… Read more »
Mistaken a-dewity
I’m reading this great book about Information Architecture right now. Not exactly light reading, but informative. It’s a well written book, with just enough humor to keep it from becoming… Read more »
Part of the process
I woke up this morning (at 6:30 on a Sunday morning) with the realization that my last post, the first draft of the first scene, had been a little unfair. I… Read more »
DTA-2 begins
I wrote the opening scene of my next book, which will have the same characters as the Department of Temporal Adjustment. It will be a stand-alone book in that I… Read more »