Happy birthday, America! I want to wish everyone out there in the US a happy and safe 4th of July. Don't drink too much and don't blow your hands of with fireworks. Be safe and be good to each other. We need people to be cool with one another now more than ever. Editing is …
Cover Reveal Day!
What is happening people? I'm still here, but not all here. The going has been slow the last two weeks following hand surgery. Good news is the stitches come out in a few days and I'll be ready to go. Bad news is I'll still be mostly using one hand to type for another week …
Tonight’s Fear: Failure
See the guy in the picture? He happens to be me at my first reading in 2011 (I digress, not my 'first' one, but my first since being published). Sure, it was a Sunday morning at a con and there weren't many people, but it felt...scary as Hell. I wasn't afraid of speaking before an …
Rest, Relax, and Reset
I am back from vacation and it was sorely needed. The grind of work and pressing to get some writing done left me drained. When I got home from work, the last thing I wanted to do was sit behind the PC and work some more. Sure, I'd turn the computer on and do some …
Writers: Beware of the Investment Gap
This made me think abut my work and how I view it. I’ve been going through my head and trying to get myself righted again. What do you think? What types of writing do you like and what makes you run away screaming from it?
If you ask a proud native Portuguese speaker if their language is very different from Spanish, they might say, “Of course, Portuguese is very different! How dare you?” Some slapping and spitting might be involved.
In practice, there are many similarities and Spanish people can often understand Portuguese speakers quite well.
Welcome to the Investment Gap.
The Investment Gap can hurt you.
An in-depth article on book design will tell you that page 1 has to start on the right. Deeper dives into old-school book design say a blank page should precede each new section. That would look wrong to many eyes but you’ll also notice a ton of praise gets thrown toward these detail-oriented articles — praise of other designers and writers, anyway.
Here’s the thing: most readers don’t even notice, let alone care. That’s not a Knowledge Gap. That’s the Investment Gap.
We all want our work to…
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An Evening With Armand Rosamilia
If I had a father in the author world; it'd be Armand. He picked up my first story and through his press released the original, In Memoriam. We have been in a few books together and have worked with Jay Wilburn and Jack Wallen on the Hellmouth Trilogy. In the process, we have become good friends. I owe a …
Guest Post with D.W. Gillespie
Books I Love D.W. Gillespie With the release of my first novel, Still Dark, I’ve been hit with a wave of excitement that had been a long time coming. Every biography I’ve ever read of the authors I admire suddenly become more relatable than before, even if I’m less than a blip on the radar. …
