Chuck said to throw down on the Pulp craziness. I don’t know if this is pulp but I think I need to check into “Case del Loco” for a while and step into a nice Thorazine bath. This week on the Terrible Minds Flash Fiction Challenge…

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I made it far, but not far enough. I didn’t make the semi-finals in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. While I sulk in disappointment, I’m staring at the ground thinking of my next move. I made the top 5% in a very competitive contest, and I should be proud. Also, that’s… Read full post »

Writing is not therapy and whomever says that is too mentally healthy to be  a writer. Nor is it a hobby and anyone who calls it that is no writer’s friend and usually thinks TV is a hobby.

But every writer has a hobby. For Hemingway it was fishing. Faulkner adored horse riding and trainin… Read full post »

Le Netbook pas cher est accessible à tout le monde

L’industrie netbook reste à être de plus en plus rapidement en dépit de la récession qui a eu lieu est partout dans le monde. Ces ordinateurs portables très transportables ont tendance à être vraiment attrayante pour les gens d’af… Read full post »

L’Ipad 3 d’Apple est un monstre de la technologie

L’iPad d’Apple a commencé à expédier le tour de la Royaume-Uni. Les ventes de produits de ce nouveau gadget, plus moderne, ont été considérables avec elle apparaît comme l’une des plus belles pièces d’Apple… Read full post »

I’ve been slacking on the job. I used to do the TerribleMinds Flash Fiction Challenge every week, but the first quarter-year has been challenging so I had to re-prioritize. I’m suffering for it because a writer always needs to be challenged. Below is my contribution to this weeks challe… Read full post »

Another one in the can, sort of. Around last week, I completed Bee, a short YA book about Bogart Richardson, a dyslexic boy who defies his peers, and his own expectations, to compete in a spelling bee. Sound impossible? Bo has discovered that he has a special power – he can’t… Read full post »

For the ABNA quarter-finals, Amazon cusotmers have the opportunity to read and rate a 5000 word excerpt from the contestant’s book entries. If you’d like to read mine, follow this link.

Read, rate (positively) and enjoy.

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<twothumbspointingatself>This guy!!</twothumbspointingatself>

To everyone who helped out, thanks. If you didn’t place, keep writing. I’ve been picked last for kickball for most of my life, but if you work hard, listen to people smarter than you (and have the wisdom to recongni… Read full post »

PayPal has finally seen the light. They have revised their content policies and will instead focus on truly illegal content. This is a great victory for independent publishing and Free Speech in the private sector. Nice work to all who signed petitions, made phone calls and promised to take their bus… Read full post »

I’ve suspended sale of Farting in Church at Smashwords in response to PayPal’s muscling of the online bookseller to remove books they perceive as glorifying rape, bestiality, incest and pedophilia. This isn’t against Smashwords, who are a fine bookseller, but I can’t do business with these bl… Read full post »

On February 23, I think I hit “F5†on my laptop at least 1000 times between 8am and 11am.  I would shut my eyes, hit the refresh button, peel them open slowly like a coffin lid and sigh. Not yet. The moment I was both dreading and anticipating was coming –… Read full post »

2012 is prophesized to be ePublishing’s breakout year. What’s been different about this movement is that writers have become more communitarian that competitive. We no longer have to compete for Team Traditional Publishing’s attention like the new kid at school. We can be a one-per… Read full post »

If man plans and God laughs then if you’ve a lot of thunder during the last two weeks, then that’s just God slapping his knee. During 2011, I horded ten days of paid time off which would expire by January’s end. I scheduled this time well. I had one week of… Read full post »

James R. Tuck, author of the upcoming Deacon Chalk: Occult Bounty-Hunter series, has invited me to post a guest blog at this site - In the Dark Night.

I’ve only recently known James from the writers critique group I attend and as a guest at Casa de Tuck’s Christmas fete. He’s large… Read full post »

I don’t do resolutions, but I don’t enter a new year aimlessly. Flush that hippie drum circle philosophy of just letting life flow. The only people that go with the flow are bad swimmers. The folks who go places make plans and raise their expectations beyond their latent ability. Any progress… Read full post »

Here’s a big Christmas treat from my eBook, Farting in Church. Now that the Holiday fiasco is half way over, why not treat yourself to a few laughs. Only $.99. Don’t like it? Re-gift!

A Cubicle Carol

I looked at my schedule posted on the community wall, next to the pictures… Read full post »

Here’s a big Christmas treat from my eBook, Farting in Church. Now that the Holiday fiasco is half way over, why not treat yourself to a few laughs. Only $.99. Don’t like it? Re-gift!

A Cubicle Carol

I looked at my schedule posted on the community wall, next to the pictures… Read full post »

Tis’ the season for a TerribleMinds.com Writing Challenge.

“Twas the Night Before Christmas…”

Caleb slept the best he could by the fire’s dying coals, but true rest evaded him. He hated dreaming, because they were always warm, happy and full of bright lights. Even as he had… Read full post »

Tis’ the season for a TerribleMinds.com Writing Challenge.

“Twas the Night Before Christmas…”

Caleb slept the best he could by the fire’s dying coals, but true rest evaded him. He hated dreaming, because they were always warm, happy and full of bright lights. Even as he had… Read full post »

Have a safe and non-subversive Christmas. Santa’s eyes are everywhere.

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Have a safe and non-subversive Christmas. Santa’s eyes are everywhere.

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Writing your first book is a buzz. Writing your second book is the buzzkill. The day I finished my first book, I stood up from my chair and bellowed like a methed out Klingon, “Today, I am a writer.”

I thought my second book would flawlessly eject from my being like… Read full post »

Writing your first book is a buzz. Writing your second book is the buzzkill. The day I finished my first book, I stood up from my chair and bellowed like a methed out Klingon, “Today, I am a writer.”

I thought my second book would flawlessly eject from my being like… Read full post »

I’m stepping up to The Wendigo’s Flash Fiction Challenge. My word of choice – seagull.

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She loved feeding baking soda dusted crackers to the seagulls at the beach, making them go “boom.†She cackled every time as they soared away the cracker, seized up mid-air and… Read full post »