Author of spooky, fantastical and swoony fiction and blogger of high strangeness.
I’m closing in on 40,000 words on Dominion. I’ve upped my daily word goal to 1,000 on weekdays, and my weekly goal to 10,000, which means a lot of extra writing on the weekends. If only my lawn would mow itself, this would be a cinch. But I think it’s doable. My goal is to […]
Read More »I spent most of last weekend devouring Starve Better (see what I did there?) by nihilistic_kid, aka Nick Mamatas, and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to make money writing. This book is along the same lines as John Scalzi’s …Coffee Shop, in that it’s made up of essays from Mamatas’s Livejournal and […]
Read More »If you’ve been holding out for the Nook edition of Restless Spirits, here it is.
Read More »I don’t really have a plan for promoting Restless Spirits beyond simply telling everybody in my social circle about it. After all, it’s the vanguard, sent out to raise awareness of my name and writing and hopefully generate some good feeling toward both in time for Dominion of the Damned to take Amazon by storm, […]
Read More »Well, that didn’t take as long as long as I expected it to (although expect the corrected acknowledgements to take a couple more days to update): Restless Spirits is now available for purchase on Amazon. It’s not quite the rush of walking into a bookstore and seeing your book on the shelves, but it still feels […]
Read More »Restless Spirits is my first guinea pig in this whole self-publishing experiment, so I thought I’d share some of the things I learned about the process. Formatting is easy and relatively painless. Smashwords has an excellent style guide, and after I prepared my manuscript according to their instructions, I only had to make a few very minor […]
Read More »Veronica Wilson wakes up dead and discovers she’s in for the fight of her life. A paranormal investigator in life, Ron is setting up for a ghost hunt in the spookiest house in town when she finds herself the one being hunted. Now she’s trapped in the house along with a bevy of other ghosts […]
Read More »Thanks to a couple of impassioned arguments that my cover for Hungry Child really needed a child, or at least something child-related, and also thanks to finally coming across a photo that seems to fit the bill that I can actually use, I’ve done up a new new cover: I think that one’s appropriately creepy, […]
Read More »I started forgetting to keep track of my daily word count around the end of last week, but I made a lot of progress on Dominion over Memorial Day weekend, and I’ve been consistently beating my 250 Words a Day Challenge goal since then. I’m on the verge of hitting 30,000 words, which I thought […]
Read More »This weekend I’m planning to buckle down and make some headway on getting This Old Haunt ready for publication. In the meantime, since TOH was never intended to be more than a working title, and since the cover I created for the Scribd version two years ago doesn’t really accurately reflect the book’s romantic-comedic tone […]
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