“Rules? They’re More Like Guidelines”

I wanted to share with you a couple of links to blogs that have featured two different posts on writing rules. Speaking for myself, I have followed, broken and even forged a few of my own rules. Is there a rule for every situation? Is there a list of all the rules you will ever need …

BookLamp is Pandora for books

Every once in a while I do learn something at a conference. I was attending a virtual conference in e-books when I learned about this little web site. http://booklamp.org/index.php Using a technology similar to Pandora where the elements of a work are cataloged and used to suggest other similar works, you enter a title or …

Latest Review

The fine folks at The League of the Iron Quill have posted a review of my novel, In the Presence of Gods. You can read it here. http://www.ironquill.net/presence/ I want to thank them for giving my work a read and a little part of their space in the cloud.

It’s a Marathon Not A Sprint

Who am I kidding? That bit of news from my title is older than the hills themselves. Still every once in a while it is necessary to hear the obvious from fellow authors. While we all have visions of our books igniting the next big literary trend the reality of it happening is just below …

So You Think You Have Guts, Do Ya?

I saw this in my RSS feed. Do you think you could or would share your work in progress with the world? I use Google Docs quite a bit and backup much of my work on there. I do not know that I would have the strength of mind like Silvia Hartmann to share my …