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I’m Still Here!

December 21st, 2011

Sorry, gang. I know I haven’t been posting much here of late, but it’s not because I don’t love you. I’ve just been up to my ass in work and chores and stuff.

Work on the house goes well. The kitchen remodel is almost done. Just need to have the tile backsplash completed this week, and then some painting (yay, more work for me), then done.

Oh, and Jenny and I just got our first cell phones. I held out 41 years before I caved in. But now I’ll be able to call her more easily when I’m out on the road at cons and such.

Also, I will be a mentor at Seton Hill University starting in January as part of their genre writing program. I’m very excited about that, because I’m curious to see if I can pass along the skills I’ve learned.

Work on the new series progresses, more or less. I seem to be spending as much time revising my outlines and notes as I do actually writing. Maybe I’m over-thinking the project, but the ideas just keep flowing. (Which is better than the opposite.)

Well, I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday. Don’t forget to buy lots of copies of Shadow’s Son and Shadow’s Lure to stuff those stockings! 🙂

New Things

October 13th, 2011

A blog is a dangerous thing.

Back in the old, old days, whenever I started a new writing project I would sequester myself in my den, working feverishly by the dim light of my computer monitor, completely alone. It would be months before even my wife (always my first reader) saw any of the fruits of this labor, and then months (or years) more before the outside world got a taste.

Now, it’s so tempting to just spew my burgeoning ideas into the ethers of the Net. But I will resist.

What I can say is that I love the process of creation. When it comes to writing, I’m a planner. I want to know everything before I commit to actual writing: the setting, the characters, the story. But most of all, I want to know the Big Answer– what is this book (or series) going to be about?

For my next series (I mentioned it was going to be a series, didn’t I?) I have the Big Answer. Or I should say I have My answer, because when you read these books you might have very different ideas about them. And that’s healthy for both of us.

So enough about my crazy ideas. For you writers out there, what do you need to know before you start writing a new story?

DragonCon Schedule

September 1st, 2011

Hey Sports Fans,

Here’s a glimpse of my official events for DragonCon this coming weekend. Beyond these, I will often be found at the Pyr Books booth making a nuissance of myself.

Friday 10 pm — Panel: Fightin’ and Writin’ (Manilla/Honk Kong/Singapore room)

Saturday 12 noon — Book signing (709/711 Marquis Ballroom, Marriott)

Sunday 12 noon — Book signing (709/711 Marquis Ballroom, Marriott)
Sunday 2:30 pm — Panel: Pyr Books (Greenbriar, Hyatt)




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