Category: Fiction

Making of a Novel Part 2

[*** DISCLAIMER:  THIS POST HAS SPOILERS FOR MY NEXT NOVEL. STOP READING NOW IF YOU WANT TO BE SURPRISED ***] This is a continuing series of posts about the writing of my novel, Starveyors. You can start at the beginning…

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Writing Update

This week I’ve been busy polishing a short story that I will send to Kindling Press for their Uprising Rage Against The Machine anthology. Beta readers have been giving me input and I’ve been trying to make it as perfect…

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Cherie Priest Visits Boise

Very much enjoyed author Cherie Priest’s visit to Rediscovered Books in Boise last night. She gave a very interesting and lively talk about her books and her life as a writer. A pretty decent crowd showed up on a not-so-typically…

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Writing Update

Time for a quick note to say what I’ve been working on lately. I just finished a first draft of a short story intended for a future anthology. If it does not get accepted, I’ll release it via Kindle as…

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Under the Radar

Internet storms again this week about publishing methods. Yes, I self-publish. No, I don’t think everyone should. Yes, I’m traditionally published too. Yes, I send out novel submitions to agents. No, I have yet to impress an agent with my novels. No,…

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A Cold Fog

Much of this past week has been spent in a fog induced by a bad cold. I’m still not completely over the stuffed up head but I am finally draining. Not much has been done on the writing and publishing…

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More on Writing with Linux

My setup for writing a novel on Linux or more appropriately, Ubuntu 11.10, in greater detail. I use Gedit for writing the first draft in. This is the basic text editor that ships with Ubuntu and Gnome. Each chapter is…

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Going Full Monty with Linux

I bounce around with the computers that I write on. Sometimes I use Linux, sometimes I use Mac. I never use Windows, don’t own that OS. I wrote all of Starforgers on my HP Mini in LibreOffice Write, but I…

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