Redshirt Yourself and Get ConSensual Free
In celebration of Consensual’s release Real Soon Now, I have a competition. Write a short – 2 paragraphs max – description of how you’d like to be redshirted in the Con vampire universe. Anything...
View ArticleComing back from Burnout for Thanksgiving
The thing about burnout is you don’t really get how bad it is until you start to recover, even if you know you’re burned out. It’s one of those things that’s harder to see from the inside. I’m...
View ArticleThere be progress
There be progress on the third con book. It’s slow, because I’m handwriting on a notepad in my lunchbreak, but it’s consistent, and more than that the itty bitty snips I’ve sent my first readers have...
View ArticleConFeyction sneak peek
I’m working away on the next book in the con vampire series, and Amanda suggested folks might like a sneak peek snippet of it. So here it is: a chunk of mostly unedited raw first draft ConFeyction. Now...
View ArticleIt’s NaNo Time Again — redux
Ah, yes, November is here. There was once a time when that meant looking forward to a long weekend of family, football and guilt-free overeating. It meant starting to think about holidays and gift...
View ArticleI said I’d return
Like many folks yesterday, I overdid. Not with food or drink but with too much heat and time on my feet. One of our annual fundraisers for the local library is parking cars for 4thFest. It is always...
View ArticleWhat happens when your muse hijacks you
I’ll admit it. I’m drawing a blank on what to write this morning. I think part of it is because I’ve been deep in editorial mode the last few days. Another part is I made the mistake of reading an...
View ArticleAn old snip, some promo and an achy shoulder
I hope everyone has had a wonderful — and safe — holiday season so far. I’ll admit that I’m going to wimp out on the blog today. Part of the reason is I have a promo going on and today is the last day...
View ArticleBeginnings, endings and everything in-between
I’m not sure I’ve mentioned it here — I know I have over on my blog — but I got jumped about 9 days ago with a new novel. Well, new in the sense that it hasn’t already been written. Not new because I...
View ArticlePlanning Ahead
There was a time when I never knew what my next writing project was going to be. Writing was something I did in the privacy of my room, never intending for anyone to see it. Even when I started getting...
View ArticleAck!
That is the sound you hear — okay, maybe I’m the only one to hear it — when this writer’s brain realizes it has two active works-in-progress going on and suddenly, without warning, a third (and...
View ArticleAn interesting endeavor
I’ve always steered clear of anthologies, having heard stories of the difficulty writing for them. You write up a tale tailored to that particular one, they don’t take it, then what do you do with a...
View ArticleHappy Thanksgiving a few days early
Between the knee (torn MCL, medial meniscus and more) and the fact the first of the Thanksgiving company arrives later this morning, writing a post was the last thing on my mind. I considered putting...
View ArticleA snippet revisited
Here’s hoping everyone who celebrates Christmas had a wonderful day yesterday. I’ll freely admit to suffering from too much fun followed by battling a refrigerator yesterday afternoon and evening that...
View ArticleRelease Day!
The most exciting day in an author’s life is also the most terrifying day. Release day. That day when you push the button, the virtual door opens and your “baby” races out the door into the world or...
View ArticleLife returning to normal
Or as normal as any writer’s life ever gets. As you know, the last few months have been odd, to say the least, for the Green household. Mom’s shoulder injury and subsequent shoulder replacement has...
View ArticleNocturnal Revelations –snippet
Apologies for the lateness of the post. I’ll be honest, I couldn’t figure out what to write about today. I started and deleted three different times. The problem is I’m in the final stages of preparing...
View ArticleCharacter Analysis
Or Finding Your Own Bad Habits Now, the first thing I’m going to say about creating characters is Do Not Outsmart Yourself With A Clever Naming Scheme! I speak from experience. Ignore the weird names...
View ArticleAnd Another thing
Tomorrow is the big day! The newest children’s book is going live… One Hungry Werewolf and Other Monstrous Rhymes will be available in print and ebook. Which leaves me sitting here thinking about...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo meets real life
Well, November is nearly over and that anguished cry you hear (or more likely, the sound of laptops and tablets hitting the wall) means writers once again wonder why they thought they could do NaNo...
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