Wyso And The Other Creepy Kids on Gerard Street
Man's Best
Sparkers
Better Dig 2
I don’t do book reviews or author interviews. Except when I find a really good book by a self-published author. Like I did with Travis Simmon’s Desolation in my Zombie Read Along blog. Kathy Finfrock’s House of Redemption fits into my list of “must haves” to warrant a blog. The Must Haves List: an amazing […]
Dracula Is Winning In How To Create A Monster.
In a poll I am conducting for my “how to create a monster” research, Dracula is beating the pants off The Wolf Man and The Mummy. Frankenstein is running a close second. Not all the votes are in however, but Dracula is holding on strong. Final tallies will be reported on Wednesday. The Short […]
Ellipses…Guidelines for Their Safe Use In Fiction
You might be thinking, ELLIPSES enough, already! But there is so much confusion surrounding the lovely little pain in the butt that it warrants further investigation. And mind you, the confusion is not just on the part of the writer, but the editors as well. I am a profound lover of the use of ellipses in […]
THE Editing Checklist For Self-Publishing A Science Fiction eBook. Or Any Book. All You Ever Wanted To Know—But Didn’t Know—You Didn’t Know.
Lately, I have sampled a few, different editors and have found they are not created equal, and finding one that doesn’t rip your creative endeavors to shreds is the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack. Not that the ripping isn’t warranted, and I learn much from each ripping. But a little positive feedback would have been nice from the […]
Self-Publishing Motivation. Carl Sandburg and Henry David Thoreau On Writing.
Pixabay Image by inspiredimages Summer invaded. Visitors. Camping trips. Family. And my writing went the way of dead spring flowers—faded and dismissed—praying for a rain endowed wind or hungry bird to escort them to fertile fields. Sparkers, Novella III of my The Creep Mesquite Anthology is due to release in August, and I’m currently on my […]