Author of spooky, fantastical and swoony fiction and blogger of high strangeness.
All righty, gang, I finally found the time to re-redo my cover for Dominion. To refresh everybody’s memory, here is the clear favorite from the last round of cover voting: And here’s the latest version, which pretty much goes in a completely different direction: And to help you decide which fits best, here’s […]
Read More »It might not have escaped your notice that I failed to finish editing Dominion of the Damned in time to take advantage of those Create Space coupons I worked so hard to win in last year’s NaNoWriMo before they expired. Between working the new contract job, working for my own clients and hurrying to overhaul […]
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 »I’m only six scenes away from finishing the second draft of Dominion of the Damned, which means I’ll most likely finish it up tomorrow, and then it will be ready to be seen by eyes other than my own. I already have three beta readers lined up. I’d like to have two more. I think […]
Read More »It’s been a while since I’ve done an update here on how Dominion of the Damned is coming along. I’m still in the first revision stage, but so far it’s going smoothly and I’m starting to gain some momentum. I’m more than halfway through the second draft, and if I can keep devoting a couple of […]
Read More »…is not quite what this week turned out to be, although I did make good headway by finishing the first act and getting started on the second. It turned out that I had to devote a big chunk of my week to clearing a big pile of storm debris out of my side yard. I […]
Read More »It’s time, y’all. As mentioned in my last post, the web site project that was eating my time and patience is done, and the big web site support client I signed last November let their contract expire. That means I’ve got some breathing room, and hence, no more excuses. And so I hereby proclaim for […]
Read More »…or, “Where the *@%! Has Jean Been?!” November was a heck of a month, y’all. As if NaNoWriMo wasn’t enough to keep me busy, about a week and a half into that my freelance business started to pick back up, and before I knew it I had more clients and projects than I knew what […]
Read More »Today was a good day for the novel, y’all. Today I FINALLY got my protags together. Yes, I know I’ve posted smoochie-licious snippets from that book here before, but those were FUTURE smoochies from when I impatiently skipped ahead. You guys have no idea how hard it is for me to pace myself and build […]
Read More »Administrative note: the house is much improved, but there’s still a lot to get done, so expect this week to be light on updates. Meanwhile, I stopped letting the house be an excuse to not write, so here’s a word count, albeit an anemic one: Today’s word count: 315 Total: 70,713 And here’s a snippet […]
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