This writing business is hard on a person. The hours of sitting is hard on my back, focusing on the screen for so long messes up my neck and shoulders, typing and typing and typing—or, worse, not typing, but cursing instead. Writing is hard work! But really, the truly hard… Continue reading
Update: I’ll pass 30K words today on my first draft of the sequel to Dark Green. This will be the second book in the Mangas County Mysteries series As I’m writing I’m keeping the need for a catchy title in mind. I’ve come up with what seems to me to… Continue reading
It’s the heat. I’m losing my mind. It’s a dry heat, to be sure, but it’s still hot. It’s so hot even the weeds are wilted. It’s too hot to work in my studio. The thought of handling fabric when it’s this damn hot is a non-starter. Plus, in an… Continue reading
Tomorrow and Saturday I’ll be at the first annual Artists & Authors Expo at the Dome in Eagar AZ. I’m bringing a big box of Dark Green in hardcover and paperback, plus previously published books of mine. Hope to see lots of people there, and it wouldn’t make me feel… Continue reading
First thing this morning I saw the email snippet line of a review of Dark Green: Thank you for giving us the opportunity to review your book. Uh oh. I had a schedule today. If I read the review I might be late. If I read the review I might… Continue reading
I have been diligently promoting Dark Green on social media and I’ve paid for Dark Green promo as well, but is it doing any good? Hard to tell. People say they’re buying books but when I check the sales numbers I think what people mean is that they’re planning to… Continue reading
I got the page with links to a couple of my short stories back up. Stories & stuff. Check it out. I’ll let you know when I get more stories posted.
Seriously. My website was working just fine one day, then a week later when I went to post to my blog — and without me doing anything to it — the whole site was kaflooie (that’s a technical term). First let me say THANK YOU… for nothing, GoDaddy techs. All… Continue reading