Finding My Novels a Home
Saturday, March 13th, 2010 Posted in Writing | 3 Comments »I've been thinking about novel writing lately. You can blame Jonathan Blundell and the little video chat we did a few days ago about my post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel, Least of These. You see, I've written three novels. Two have been ...
Least of These Video Chat
Friday, March 12th, 2010 Posted in Books, Writing | 1 Comment »You may remember that I recently published a book. It's a little sci-fi post-apocalyptic novel called Least of These with a killer cover (you can download a free copy or buy the paperback for $9.99). Yesterday I sat down and did ...
Reading a Chapter from My Book
Thursday, February 25th, 2010 Posted in Books, Writing | No Comments »There I am, sitting in my grandmother's rocking chair reading the first chapter from my novel, Least of These. It's kind of like attending an author reading at your favorite bookstore, except you can be in your house and I ...
I’ve Got a New Book: Least of These
Friday, February 5th, 2010 Posted in Books, Writing | No Comments »My post-apocalyptic sci-fi novel Least of These is now published and widely available (the e-mail newsletter subscribers got the early word last night: subscribe now to be in the know). So much to talk about, I don't even know where ...
Share Your Story Now
Wednesday, October 7th, 2009 Posted in Writing | 1 Comment »"Don’t wait for your story to be done before you share it." I came across this quote from Jon Acuff (the guy behind Stuff Christians Like) in a discussion on blogging from the Catalyst Conference. Here's the quote in context: Writing is just ...
Gmail Down? 25% Off Lulu Today Only
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 Posted in Books, Writing | 2 Comments »You may have heard about the big Gmail fail today when Google's mail app went down for an hour and 45 minutes. It was a tech apocalypse of so-so proportions. But it gets fun when on-demand publisher Lulu.com offered a 25% ...
It Takes Crap to Make Beauty
Thursday, July 30th, 2009 Posted in Writing | No Comments »Something I’m trying to teach myself as a writer is that you have to write some shitty first drafts before you can come with anything close to good. That’s an easy lesson to learn when you’re writing something short like a ...
Status Report on my Novel
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 Posted in Writing | 4 Comments »I got some feedback on my novel this weekend, my 2006 NaNoWriMo effort that I've been trying to polish over the last 8 months or so. It came from an industry insider who kindly agreed to read the first few ...
20 Minutes at a Time
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009 Posted in Business & Marketing, Writing | No Comments »Earlier this week I read an article by Cory Doctorow (of Boing Boing fame) about how he's able to be a productive writer in an age of distraction. It's definitely a worthy question. In some ways I've answered that question ...
Authors Without Web Sites
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008 Posted in Books, Business & Marketing, Writing | 1 Comment »Earlier this week I singled out author Anne Lamott for not having a web site. But the sad fact is she's not alone. A number of noteworthy authors lack official web sites: Jonathan Franzen David Sedaris Sarah Vowell Alice Sebold Kathleen Norris Robert Pinsky Seamus Heaney David Rakoff Russell ...
