Author of spooky, fantastical and swoony fiction and blogger of high strangeness.
It’s here! I’ve actually had this cover ready for ages, but as you may know, it’s been stuck in limbo on my non-functional laptop. I was finally able to rescue it last weekend. This is probably one of my favorite covers so far. I’d ask what you guys think, but then I’d get twenty different […]
Read More »I managed to accomplished two (TWO!) writing/publishing-related things last weekend: I broke through my block and figured out the main plot arc of the next book in the Damned series (and also what book three is about, and that it’s up to four books now instead of being a trilogy); and I came up with a […]
Read More »Good news for anyone who has been waiting to read my pseudo-Slenderman, loosely creepypasta inspired, haunted amusement park story Eucha Falls: the wait is almost over! The bad news is that the anthology to which it’s been under submission for the last several months politely declined its inclusion (I received a very polite rejection signed […]
Read More »Project: Radium Town, the Steampunk Weird West adventure set in my hometown of Claremore, Oklahoma at the dawn of statehood and featuring Will Rogers and Tom Mix. Writing stage: Researching, world building & plotting What got done: Over the weekend I did a little more research into Tom Mix, and rounded out my cast with a […]
Read More »Thanks to everyone who offered feedback on the potential cover concepts for Dominion of the Damned. The general consensus was overwhelmingly in favor of the third concept, featuring a girl with a gun standing on a desolate highway, the feedback on which ranged from “least cheesy” to “awesome.” Of course, for practical and budgetary reasons […]
Read More »This time for Dominion. I have an opinion, but I’m going to keep it to myself for the time being. First, the cover I originally mocked up waaay back in 2009 for NaNoWriMo (which isn’t really up for consideration–it’s just so you can see where I started from): And now a more stylized and […]
Read More »Okay, I tweaked the new cover a bit more, and I need help deciding which I like best: the daytime version or the nighttime one?
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 […]
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 »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 […]
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