It’s day 1 (9 hours into this event) and I’m still really excited about NaNoWriMo, so I thought I would share some more information about the book I’m writing this month. Allow me to introduce my main characters: Someone on twitter mentioned that Roman looks like Malcom Reynolds from FireFly. That wasn’t my intention. The [...]
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On Sunday, November 1st, I will be participating in NaNoWriMo for the very first time. For those of you who have never heard of it, NaNoWriMo is an annual event that takes place from November 1 to November 30. Those of us crazy enough to sign up are challenged to write 50,000 words during those [...]
So perhaps I wasn’t as ready to start a new novel as I thought, but I needed to do something while I wait to see what happens to my novel “Ice Debt” (see this post – update 7). But I was stuck. I love building worlds but it wasn’t coming to me this time. I [...]
Tuesday, August 11th! Where has the time gone. It’s been an amazingly long couple of weeks and I have lots of updates for you. 1) I sent out two Flash Fiction stories two weeks ago to the “Creatures of the Night” contest put on by Absolute Xpress. The contest closed on August 1st at midnight [...]
In a discussion with book reviewer Shaun Duke on Twitter, he made an interesting comment. He said that he couldn’t think of any lead female characters in Science Fiction books. When I tried to respond right away I realized all the books that were coming to my mind were more Fantasy or Speculative than true [...]
A friend of mine was having a bad day at work. There were a lot of challenges he had to overcome to complete a “project”. Anyway, in an attempt to make him feel better I wrote him a little story based loosely off the information he told me. I wrote in one hour, and did [...]
Published on January 1, 2010, this anthology is a collection of interwoven short stories. 
