I made a little more progress on ebooks today. Looks like the Kindle version of How to Thwart a Dictator is mostly working, though I’m struggling to figure out a couple of irritating little nuances. For epub format, I’m still having trouble, but I did find a new tutorial online. … Continue reading
The near-future anthology “2020 Visions” that I am editing got some life pumped into it this morning. I can’t spill the details yet, but I received two submissions that I am very excited about, written by authors with whom the rest of the contributors will be very pleased to share… Continue reading
I spent a good part of the morning today converting my story How to Thwart a Dictator into new and exciting ebook formats. The story has been posted in PDF format on my website for free download the past two months. (You can find it here.) I made some decent… Continue reading
It’s been a busy last couple of evenings. I spent the better part of the evening hours on the 31st and 1st getting a bunch of stories that had been collecting digital dust on my hard drive back out into the market. It has been a great while since I… Continue reading
I learned today that I won my 10th honorable mention in the Writers of the Future Contest. It’s very frustrating on the one hand, because I have never placed into the semi-finals. But they say that of the thousands of entries, honorable mentions go to the top 10%. I always… Continue reading
It looks to be a busy week coming up. The kids are out of school for spring break, and that doesn’t bode well for getting anything done. Better still, the 2×8 that makes up part of our back balcony has a new hole about an inch and a half across,… Continue reading
I had been planning to send the current story-in-progress to Writers of the Future for the 2nd quarter contest. the deadline for that one is postmark by wednesday. However, I’m not happy enough with how it’s coming together to be satisfied it will be done by then. Fortunately, I just… Continue reading
It’s funny how you can look at something and not see details. Take, for instance, the logo for our local basketball team, the Phoenix Suns. I have been looking at this logo every season for the past eleven years, and it was only yesterday that I noticed that the blue… Continue reading
If you ask me to think of the most unique musician ever to perform, I would not hesitate to say Louis Armstrong.  Armstrong would have been 109 years old this coming August, so even if he had survived the 1971 heart attack, he almost certainly would have passed before now…. Continue reading
A few days ago I finished a draft of a story for my writers group to chew on. Well, finish is not the right choice of words because I left it unfinished. The reason? I did not know how it ended. The group threw around ideas after finishing the critiques… Continue reading
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