Author of spooky, fantastical and swoony fiction and blogger of high strangeness.
It’s happened. I’ve fallen in love with my novel. It’s taken a little while to get there, and I was beginning to worry that we were going to end up “just friends,” that the chemistry wasn’t there. But I turned a corner this weekend, and it literally feels like falling in love. I can’t stop […]
Read More »I’ll spare you the daily word count and just tell you that I only wrote a total of 2,721 words on Dominion this week. Monday and Tuesday, I didn’t produce any words of actual story, but I did go over the outline and ended up adding several scenes. Yesterday, I didn’t write at all, using […]
Read More »I still have to mail in the paperwork to make it official, but Daydreamer Publishing has a logo! Here’s the black and white version that will be used for print: And here’s the full color version for the (eventual) web site: It’s simple, but I’m happy with it.
Read More »Well, the owner of the pic I used in the last Hungry Child cover mockup has never gotten back to me about permission, which is a shame because that pic would have been perfect. Oh, well. Back to the drawing board. I found a nice, moody picture of a road in the woods on Stock.xchng, and […]
Read More »First, my writing progress for the week: Day Project Wordcount Saturday Dominion of the Damned 572 Sunday Dominion of the Damned 0 Monday Dominion of the Damned 0 Tuesday Dominion of the Damned 1134 Wednesday Dominion of the Damned 922 Thursday Dominion of the Damned 0 Friday Dominion of the Damned 2001 Total 4629 […]
Read More »I debated which blog to post this in, but since it involves my writing space, I thought it was appropriate for this one. I’m still four scenes shy of finishing the second draft of Hungry Child. Yesterday, I had a little writer’s block on that story, and I didn’t have any pending client projects, so […]
Read More »I ended up being too scatterbrained yesterday to get any editing done, but today I made good headway on my novelette-length short story, Dream Child. Among other things, I settled on a new title to replace the working title, and that new title is Hungry Child. I think that sounds a little more ominous, don’t […]
Read More »Instead of posting my word count daily, I’ll try to reign myself in to a weekly report. Here’s this week’s progress (so far) on Dominion of the Damned: . Daily Word Count . Date: Project: Word Count: . 5/9/2011 Dominion 549 . 5/10/2011 Dominion 780 . 5/11/2011 Dominion 1007 . 5/12/2011 Dominion 1273 . 5/13/2011 […]
Read More »The other day I bought the domain daydreamerpublishing.com, although I don’t know yet whether I’ll ever actually use it. I’ve seen some great arguments in favor of self-publishers going to the effort of setting up their own publishing imprint.
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