I accidentally wrote a (short) zombie apocalypse novel between Thanksgiving and the New Year! My Patreon subscribers have gotten to watch the whole thing evolve, 500 words at a time. I’m finally about ready to release the novel to everyone: Look for it at an Amazon near you on February Read more…
Without further adieu… Part I: The Lengthening Shadows “How the Shadowlands came to be is a mystery that the Brotherhood, in all its exploration, has never been able to answer. Did the Shadowlands always exist, as some histories state, or was it, along with its inhabitants, created by mankind? There Read more…
I’ve written over two thousand words today. The only problem is that I’ve been working on the “wrong” project… the prequel story that’s been brewing in my mind for a while. (I gave you the first chapter here a while back.) The good news is that I also wrote over Read more…
0 words so far written today; 126,839 total for the manuscript (which might actually be *lower* than my last update). But the good news is, this happened: Last weekend, I spent most of Saturday re-editing a holiday-ish-themed novella that was published in the charity collection Winter Hearts last year. Winter Read more…
So one way the many ways that I procrastinate and avoid getting down to the actual work I need to do is that I write on other projects. What I tell myself: “I will just work on this other project for a little while to warm myself up. Then once Read more…
The project I’m currently working on (beta title: The Redevelopment of Drea and Kasey) has a lot of bits and pieces of my own experiences woven into it. In particular, the suburbs. THE SUBURBS. I’m sorry, but don’t you think suburbia is a little bit the Twilight Zone? Amiright? When Read more…
I like a good challenge. My girlfriend says I’m too hard on myself and she’s probably right (of course she’s right — she reminds me all the time that she’s ALWAYS right), but I also believe that you have to push a little in life if you’re going to make Read more…
I feel like I should be singing some Britney Spears — “Oops, I did it again.” I’ve written before about the dicey position of writing about race while white. But when I’ve written characters of color before, the issues they’ve faced around racism have always been an important but tangential Read more…
Hello there! I just turned in a long novella for a collection of holiday-themed short stories and novellas that will be coming out this fall / winter. Other authors in the collection include lesfic best-sellers like A. E. Radley, Giselle Fox, Nicolette Dane, Em Stevens, Miranda MacLeod, and a handful Read more…
UNTITLED NOVEL, Chapter 4 Everything is beta. Wait! Get caught up by reading the first three chapters! Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Okay. Now on to the steamy Chapter 4. — 4 The sky was still a dark blue, but tinged with pink, by the time Tasia finally entered Read more…