After a marathon last couple of days revising my book based on editor feedback, I sent what will hopefully be the last version back to her last night. It includes a heavily cut beginning and a completely new ending. With that done, I decided to take a break today and Read more…
Things are progressing slower than I would like on Book 2. I am only at around 52,000 words and roughly half way through the story. And, I just got book 1 back from the editor so progress will slow even more. But, I just got Book 1 back from the Read more…
Over the last week I’ve been trying to iron out what the tax rules will be for me as I go into the book writing business. I’ll have no income of my own this year, so haven’t thought about. But with an actual plan in place for getting the book Read more…
Last night I signed a contract to have my book published through Grey Gecko Press. While this is a small start-up publisher, I’ve been sold on the founder’s, Jason, vision. GGP is very much a hybrid between the traditional big house publisher and self-publication. At first I was skeptical of Read more…
I recently went to a meeting of local sci-fi/fantasy writers. All more or less amateurs. It was a meet-up of people who like writing, some who want to eventually get published, some who just do it for fun. It was a lot of fun and I met some really nice Read more…
I’m not sure how I feel about the news that Amazon is trying to form add a “Netflix like” service for e-books to it’s Amazon Prime. On the consumer side, since I’m already an Amazon Prime member, having free access to a bunch of books might be cool. Any time Read more…
I’m in kind of an unusual rut right now with my novels. I “finished” the first book in my planned series a few months ago. Since then I’ve been working on book 2, and have written about half of its projected overall length. Unfortunately, that half is the beginning, which Read more…
I’m sitting at the car dealership for the second time this week. Monday I took my car in for 75,000 mile maintenance and for the annual Texas mandated inspection. I change my own oil most of the time but since the inspection was due I went ahead and brought it Read more…
Well, Borders is closing. As a hopeful author, having a book store close isn’t a good thing. I’m not particularly partial to Borders. I split my time between them and Barnes and Nobles equally. I like the physical store of our local Borders better though. It’s made me start thinking Read more…
I’ve been writing stories since we got our first computer when I was 9 or 10. As a kid, I was inspired by Doogie Howser writing a journal on his computer. That process didn’t last long but it did lead to me writing stories on the computer (you could say Read more…