Author of spooky, fantastical and swoony fiction and blogger of high strangeness.
Welp, we made it through the first full week of 2021. And what a week. 2020 is sitting on the bench, holding this year’s beer and looking impressed. Anyhow, I managed to keep going all week despite all of the distractions, a feat for which I’m giving myself a pat on the back. I finished […]
Read More »Dominion of the Damned is currently a free Kindle download on Amazon, both domestically and internationally. It will remain free through this Sunday, and then it will go back to its regular price of US$3.99. So get your free copy while you can! I have to say, I’m pretty pleased with its performance so far. Today […]
Read More »This has been a busy week, and I wasn’t able to get my final editing post ready to post on time. So that — along with the reveal of who won the pro bono manuscript edit — will get posted next week. Meanwhile, here’s a quick update of what else I’ve been working on: Last […]
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: First Draft Today’s Word Count: 1,270 Total Word Count: 1,270 What happened: Right now I’m just writing out a detailed synopsis, then I’ll go back and flesh out […]
Read More »Project: Eucha Falls, the recurring dream/creepy pasta/Slenderman mashup that’s taking longer than any short story should ever take to write. Starting word count: 10,314 Today’s word count: 236 What happened: FINISHED IT! Final word count (before editing): 10,550. Still novelette length, but not as long as I originally expected it to be. Non-spoilery sneak peek: […]
Read More »Project: Eucha Falls, the recurring dream/creepy pasta/Slenderman mashup that’s taking longer than any short story should ever take to write. Starting word count: 9,385 Today’s word count: 928 What happened: The climactic penultimate scene. Lots of running. Non-spoilery sneak peek: Without a word, Shane pulled her close and charged at the crowd, dragging her with […]
Read More »Okay, gang, we’re going to try something new. Since we’re already (!) coming up on the end of the first quarter of 2013, it’s high time I get a move on with some of these goals. So I’m going to be posting progress reports on a few different goals; namely, writing, getting in shape, and […]
Read More »I passed the 60K mark on Dominion this morning, and I’m still muddling through the middle. Um, I think it’s safe to say that I’m not going to finish this thing up by mid-August like I’d planned. Too soon to tell whether this means I won’t be able to publish by Halloween, since I’m likely […]
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 […]
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