News about my writing career and whatever else may be happening in my life that relates to the writing life.
Just wanted to drop a quick note to let my readers know some specifics of how the Tracking Jane series is going. First let me say what a moving experience it’s been for me to write this series. My respect and admiration for wounded veterans and what they go through to get on with their […]
Now that I’m more or less done with the first two episodes of the Tracking Jane series and have quarantined the first draft of the third episode before I start editing it with fresh eyes, I got the inkling that some of the backstory in Jane McMurtry’s recovery needs to come out. I am currently […]
I am pleased to announce Shadow-7 is now released for Kindle. Working in this story and the episodes that follow has taken me along a terrific creative journey. Writing Shadow-7 and subsequent episodes has allowed me to meet great characters (one in particular) and to struggle alongside them as they make sense of life and […]
Recently I came across a new term @KairaLansing coined as a hashstag: #NOVELSODE. I ran across it right around the time I was finishing up my first 2 episodes of the Tracking Jane series. The find excited me because I saw other authors out there like Kaira Lansing using this shorter format to harness the […]
Who will pre-order a book, from an Indie author, no less, if they can’t take a peek inside the text? Would you? Would I? Some Indie authors received the news that Amazon now allows pre-orders on Kindle ebooks with optimism. Without previews, though, the pre-order capability rings hollow. I decided to try out the pre-order […]
If you’ve been following me around lately, you will know that I’ve been working toward the September 16 release of Shadow-7, the first episode of the Tracking Jane Series. Here’s my quandary: Rover, the second episode, is also almost ready! Together, episodes 1 and 2 comprise a full novel length story — with more to […]
By early fall of 2014 I will release a new series of stories following Jane McMurtry, an injured Army veteran who has spent her adult life training warrior dogs and partnering with them to find bombs and track missing soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Jane comes home having suffered grievous injuries during an IED explosion. […]
Starting with DEAD BEEF, and expanding with Pink Ballerina, Decisive Moment and Active Shooter, the Our Cyber World series explores a complex world as conveyed through the different points of view and voices each story’s leading characters offer. Rather than applying a straight sequel-prequel chronological story structure, this series follows a paralellequel approach. […]
