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If you’re familiar with this blog, you already know my thoughts on self-publishing vs. traditional publishing. If you’re not, it’s boils down to my suspicion that for most writers walking the self-pub...
View ArticleDoin’ it
Just stumbled across an interesting conversation that set my own mind a’thinkin’ (always a dangerous thing). And since I wasn’t asked to share what MY process is on said blog — truth be told, they...
View ArticleIs there a Why to your What?
I have a nasty habit of not listening to people. Let me explain … I love collaboration. Nothing excites me more as a writer than getting notes, reading other’s thoughts and suggestions, seeing my work...
View Articleof sitcoms and Saints
This is how it happens with me … I’m bee-bopping along, quite enjoying myself as I fill page after electronic page with magic and blood, evil and Saints, everything wrapped in the suspicion-driven...
View ArticleHollywood hearts Writers … No! REALLY!
Hollywood. Films. Remakes, sequels, franchises. Adaptations of books. And where are the “new ideas” from Hollywood? Let’s talk about this. What most of you — and I’m talking mainly about those in the...
View ArticleThe Increasingly Poor Decisions of EL James
If Variety is to be believed — and it’s usually more right than not — “author” EL James has decided to write the script for the second Fifty Shades of Grey movie. Let me attempt (and I can’t promise my...
View ArticleFirst of Five
And so it begins. In a rare confluence of events — think a massive meteor shower pummeling the earth while a rare comet circles the heavens around a total Solar Eclipse as we discover a Kardashian with...
View Articlewhere the big stories are
I recently ran across an interesting – albeit brief – read about the current state of Hollywood. In it, the writers says Part of Hollywood’s current decay was unavoidable. As a monoculture splintered...
View Articleyes I can
I got an interesting email the other day. And although I’ve hemmed and hawed about whether or not to share this, I decided to do so because I suspect others might benefit from my experience. The note...
View Articlea big tent under a huge umbrella
An excerpt from a recent interview I did with the fantastic Shane Douglas Keene who said of my work in Eidolon Avenue “I’m just going to tell you what I think really makes these novellas work and what...
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