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News about my writing career and whatever else may be happening in my life that relates to the writing life.

Tracking Jane: Foreword to Tracking Shadow, in Her Own Words

If you’re like me, you want to get right to the story. Never mind all the self-important ramblings an author feels compelled to inject before she gets rolling. Like she’s nervous the story isn’t ready to start, or needs some preamble explanation. None of that here, but I won’t fault you none for skipping the […]

Three Take-aways from My First Year as an Indie Author

Too busy with my writing, the one year mark since I indie-published my first novel, DEAD BEEF, came and went, and I failed to commemorate it. It’s been a crazy year (plus a month and a half now). I released two short story collections, and launched two series of novels and novellas. I would mention […]

Next Tracking Jane Episode on Track for Release

Comments from Beta readers have started to trickle in. Though I haven’t sorted through all of them, so far so good! Along with a couple of revision and edit runs I’m doing, Blood Track should be ready to come out late this month, or most probably, early July. Keep checking here to see when it […]

Don’t Miss your DECISIVE MOMENT… Promo!

Dropping a quick note that over the next week, I will be running a Decisive Moment promo, wherever eBooks are sold… Well, wherever they let me sell them, I should say. If you haven’t picked it up yet, this will be a good time to get it before it goes back to its regularly scheduled […]

Blood Track Coming Sooon; Heart Track in Work

I’m happy to report Blood Track went out to Beta readers two days ago. Pleased with how this story turned out, I look forward to this novel’s release within the next month. Yes, I said novel! Excited as I am about Blood Track‘s release, a writer only feels as on track as his latest and […]

With Semi & Dronet: A Little Long for Short Stories

With every try, it becomes increasingly self-evident I can’t write a short story to save my life. Maybe, as I’ve indicated before, I don’t get much runway to flesh out my ideas and characters in a true short story, so I end up going long. Case in point, Dronet. I thought this story would come […]

Fleshing Out Our Cyber World Beginnings

Recently I released Semi (free & exclusive to my mail list subscribers) and finished the first draft for Feral. Together, these two stories will provide some nice detail into the events and characters that feed into DEAD BEEF. In particular, Feral focuses on the relationship between Sasha Javan and Martin Spencer (with Cynthia nudging her […]

Decisive Moment Gets a New Cover

In preparation for a Decisive Moment promo I will run in the next couple of weeks (stay tuned!), I am refreshing the Decisive Moment cover. On the left I show the current cover. The center version represents an attempt to spiff that up, but ultimately, I decided to go for the one on the right. […]

Ghost Writer, Semi, now available!

Busy and exciting times in Our Cyber World this week! Ghost Writer is available for pre-order ahead of its May 12 release. During this period, you can cue it up for $1.99 at an eBook store near you. If that’s not enough, my first Our Cyber World short story, Semi, also came out for a […]

Ghost Writer Status Report ~ Now Available for Preorder!

Other than posting serialized samples, I haven’t said much about Ghost Writer lately. I’m glad to say that with the help of my Beta readers–who have been awesome!–I have brought the story to a point where I’m almost ready to release it. Yes, almost. That’s a word with so much promise, and yet… It’s available […]