I’m deep into working on Arctic Rising at full pace once more, after spending a few weeks with Arctic Rising on a back burner, getting fewer words in per day, as I focused mainly on a novella for a secret project (hopefully you’ll get to hear more about that soon).
I’d left the book at a [...]

So last Friday I went down to Columbus. Ostensibly I was having lunch with the estimable Charlie Finlay and Paul Melko, but a side goal was that I was also picking up a B&N Nook. I’ve been doing some freelance work in eBook conversion for people,  and it was time to get a Nook for [...]

If things are quiet here, its due to a novella I’m trying to finish (last of my secret projects). It may be quiet yet another week, as I’m working on it, Arctic Rising, and some other freelance stuff on the side.
Should be a bit more chatty again come next week. But right now, I’m head [...]

Today I celebrate being my own boss for the last four years. Four years, man. What a run. And it’s still continuing.
I’m laid up with sinus headaches and a cold of some sort, so I wish I could drop some pearls of wisdom, or reflect about the things I’ve learned over the last four years, [...]

My Author Advance Survey (version 2.0) is still a popularly linked item online that brings a lot of readers to this blog. Back when I first set out to find out what people got as an advance, it was both a bit of information digging due to aspiring writers online arguing over the details, as [...]

This is long.
Like, really long.
And talks about the intimate details of publishing in long and meandering manner.
I tried to make it shorter, I really did, but as Mark Twain once said, I didn’t have the time. So I wrote this instead.
So as of right now, you can’t buy my books via Amazon, as they have [...]

The biggest part of the word writer is write.
I like to sling that pithy phrase around.
As I’ve mentioned, I’m getting back into the swing of being a fiction writer again, after spending most of last year on freelance projects and short fiction written in bursts. Starting in October I basically began getting back to where [...]

How do you wrap up a year? A decade? I was wondering that while on my walk tonight, meandering along Riley Creek in the footsteps of what looked like a couple other people who had the same idea and their dogs’ zig-zagged/excited pawprints in the snow.
I’m still unpacking 2009. I’m glad I stayed away from [...]

In some ways, I feel like I’m learning to write all over again these days. One, because I’m really forcing myself to use, and consider voice more than I have before. It means I read each paragraph as I write and think “is that how this character would flavor that paragraph?” And then I rewrite [...]

In October I wrapped up the last of my freelance nonfiction project obligations and various short stories (like Dirt for the latest Halo book) owed to various people. That got my medical bills paid and money buffered in the bank so I could get serious about what was next on deck.
In some ways, 2009 got [...]