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First a little housekeeping. LA ComicCon, back in September 2025, was an amazing experience. Four days of book selling, meeting vendors on the con circuit, cosplay, and very long days on my feet. The winner of the drawing for the bookshelf-sized demon claws was Billie Orr of Anaheim, CA. As a mechanism for expanding my…
The long silence It has been a minute since my last update. The reasons for the silence are many. And each unto itself could have provided a major challenge to writing. Combined… well. My bout with COVID and its treatment cycle resulted in health issues that became a distraction in our little corner of the…
RAVE 2024 I’ll be at RAVE, again this year, on November 15th in Las Vegas, with 200 of the biggest indie authors in the business. I’ll be sharing a table with Stan C. Smith, author of the Across Horizons, Bridgers, Resonant Dust series, and many others. I just got word the conference, Author Nation, is…
And just like that… …there goes September. When last we left our intrepid writer he was laboring away… in his lonely writers garret. At the end of August, I reported I was twenty chapters into Genesis Alone. Alas, with the end of September in our collective rearview mirror, I’m just five chapters further along. Going…
How can it possibly be September 1st? I’ve been playing with the idea of rewriting the Don Williams song, covered by Clapton a few years later — Living on Tulsa Time… … living on COVID time, living on COVID time gonna set my watch back to it ‘cuz you know that I’ve been through it,…
When you hit publish on Amazon it pops up a notice that says it could take three days for the publication is live in the store – or something to that effect. I hit publish last night, and both the kindle and paperback versions are live today. So much for getting a note out to…
First, The Good My annual pilgrimage to the Santa Barbara Writers Conference, which took place from June 9th to the 16th, was a great week. Being among fellow lunatics is always restorative. The sessions where I was on a panel had engaged audiences and great questions. The three panels I was on, discussing my path…
Oops… This morning, I was reminded that even draft documents should be grammatically sound if shared publicly. In this case, the draft cover attached to my most recent newsletter wasn’t ready for prime time. The blurb in that file was thrown in as a place keeper — a brain dump, if you will. Because it…
SBWC less than a month away Hard to believe it is May already. As SBWC has refined their schedule, things have adjusted a little. I will still be sitting in with Marla Miller’s afternoon workshop, but my day has been bumped to Thursday. Wednesday afternoon, I’ll be part of a panel of publishers discussing the…
I’ll be at SBWC There are a couple of exciting developments relating to the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. Yes, I will be attending this year, and the organizers have asked me to reprise my Indie Author Q&A table. So I’ll have a table in the main room, with a signup sheet, for 15-minute sessions. I’ll…