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Because my relationship with the English language is often contentious—especially when it comes to spelling—I tend to take poorly worded and misspelled messages with a grain of salt. I mean, today I got a note from someone touting his company’s web design service and their specialty of serving authors, with the subject line of “Why […]

In early 2011 I was going through a novel of mine, Eyes of Silver, cleaning up a scan from the paperback version. I’d not looked at the book in thirteen years, save for finding a couple of references that I used in my Age of Discovery novels. (Yes, the books are linked.) Cleaning up the […]

The Chain Story just released its 23rd tale: The Cost of a Tasmanian Tiger by Paul Genesse. Paul’s a great writer, and you’ll enjoy his addition to the project. I also wanted to point to Dean Wesley Smith’s blog for free fiction—among other thing, including a great series of posts about writing and writing careers. […]

Spontenudity (noun): pertaining to the gleeful and impulsive propensity for small children to shuck all clothing with little or no motivation at all. This generally occurs at the time and place which causes the parents the maximum amount of mortification. Note: This behavior is sometimes seen in adults, especially males, at sporting events or other […]

Over the next three weeks or so we’re going to be doing some software upgrades to both the blog and the store. We want to make the store easier to use and more secure; and make the website easier to use from mobile devices like my iPad. This means updating software and teaching an old […]

First chapters are an absolute bear for any novel, but especially so for works in the speculative fiction family of genres. Think about it. In that first 2500 words we have to do the following: Introduce the main character Give the reader a reason to become emotionally connected to the main character Introduce the world […]

The latest two issues of my writing newsletter, The Secrets, just went out to subscribers. These two issues combine to address a very serious issue for writers, especially as the digital age slams into publishing and blasts it apart. They are focused on organization and how the digital age will shift what we write and […]