June 3, 2021

I have a plan and ten weeks stretching out before me waiting to be filled. It’s a simple plan. Revise some books. Approve a final edit (or two) Write another Solstice Dragon World novel. Work with my cover artist for the new fantasy series in the works Update a few files Paperback the Standing Stone…

February 15, 2020

I thought an update was do. I’ve been writing, editing, redrafting, planning and preparing paperbacks. This won’t be a long post, more of a list of what is in the works. The fourth book in the Solstice Dragon World, To Harbor a Dragon, is now up as a pre-order set to upload at the end…

October 8, 2018

I’ve had my new office for about a month and a half. But my point about writers and offices doesn’t start there. My first office was a folding table about 2 1/2 ft. by 18 in., an old TV stand with a shelf and my daughter’s dingy purple desk chair. I would move the assemblage…

July 9, 2015

Ready for retirement? I’d like to talk about retirement. I’d like to retire too, but since that’s not coming anytime soon (unless my books start really rolling off the digital shelves–feel welcome to participate in precipitating my early retirement), I’ll just talk about it. First, you must consider as early as possible that you will…

September 3, 2014

Multitask the process of writing Let’s face it, if you are working at a job that you enjoy and that also pays the bills and writing for publication in your free time, than multitasking is probably a necessary evil. I don’t advocate the idea of using up every moment for productive result at all times:…

March 12, 2014

  Always looking at a master’s work before tackling your own world building is a good way to not just see the process in action but immerse yourself in it, so when you dive into your own work, the spell has been cast, a sense of the cape of good building has been settled like…