Dark, soulful tales that haunt long after the last page.
The first novel I finished writing was The Prometheus Syndrome, a horror novel you can buy here (it was not my first published novel). My second finished book was another horror novel called The Living Dark that has never seen the light of day. For my third novel, I decided to write a sword-and-sorcery fantasy…
Here are seven common mistakes or obstacles that can keep people from achieving success as fiction writers:
It’s 3:09 a.m. on Sunday, the last day of spring break. The last night I can stay up late like this. I dread going back to the school, back to the students who don’t want to learn, and back to a life where I can’t work on books all day. But it is what it…
Today is my new book’s birthday! My latest novel, Yes or No, is one I’m kinda proud of. It’s a literary novel about a man in his 50s who is confined to a nursing home and suffering from COPD. Daniel’s led a hard life that’s included prisons and rehabs and loss. One day a woman…
One of the cool things about joining BookFunnel is the opportunity to participate in big promotional events with other others in the same genre. With the release of Dust in the Wind earlier this month, I got to sign this contemporary romance up for the Second Chance Romance promo. You should check it out! Remember,…
The first month in the year I hope to go full-time as an author has passed. It was not the launch I was hoping for. Despite my preparation, things just didn’t pop the way I’d hoped. You’ll remember a couple of weeks ago I posted a list of things I wanted to accomplish in January.…
About 20 minutes ago I reached the end of chapter 29 on a novel I’m not calling First Born. That put me at 50,258 words, which made me a winner of NaNoWriMo for the third straight year. It’s been an interesting and enlightening month of writing and reading and listening to podcasts about marketing. When…
In my quest to become self-employed by June 2023, I have made a few small steps forward. There’s nothing major to report yet, as there is a lot of prep work, but I have accomplished a little, so I thought I’d share it. I have created a spreadsheet listing all of my published titles under…