Stuck in a Rut

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…

Kindles and Cars

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…

Seal the Borders!

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…

Writing, a history

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…