After long delay, the first dead tree issue of The Martian Wave has been released. It contains my story “The Pillars of Europa.” You can read editor J. Alan Erwine’s comments here. As it happens, I also had a story, “Swirling Beneath One Thin Ring,” appear in the final online… Continue reading
I wasn’t planning to make any kind of statement about the Amazon-Macmillan ebook pricing conflict, but the most recent post by writer John Scalzi had the effect of changing my mind about that decision. But first, let me start out by saying that this post isn’t about John Scalzi, nor… Continue reading
Today I finally got the eshop running well enough to declare it open for business, despite that being somewhat misleading. The shelves are stocked with one product, a PDF version of my short story “How to Thwart a Dictator.” It’s a humorous story that originally appeared in Tales of the… Continue reading
The new web site is live and kicking. I moved the blog away from the Blogger site and it is now totally self-contained. The estore, where you will be able to download my fiction in various formats, is still under construction as I figure out how it works and how… Continue reading
I hit a brick wall with Zen Cart today. Fellow writer Eric James Stone develops web sites for his day job. We were on the phone discussing the Zen Cart install that I had going and discovered it to be very cumbersome to set a file up for download. While… Continue reading
I have tried twice in the past to install Zen Cart. During yesterday’s install, I remembered why it was unsuccessful in the past. At one point, there are files that need to be made read-only. I know how to do that, but I could never access the UNIX command line… Continue reading
Since my meeting with Michael A. Stackpole last friday, digital publishing has been more and more on my mind. I’m in the planning stages of setting up a storefront on www.ricknovy.com. Since there seems to be growing interest in this area, I’ll be documenting the experience here for other writers… Continue reading
Bad bad weekend for productivity. Weekends are very difficult to use for writing. Distractions, tasks, and more distractions abound. So, not surprisingly, I have totally fallen off the RiNoWriMo wagon. I’m now hopelessly behind. So, how to go forward? Actually, it isn’t as bad as it seems. Although I haven’t… Continue reading
Ok, so this is not going as well as I had hoped, but I am still making progress and that’s a change over last month. Several unusual situations are competing for my time, but I did manage to complete the draft of the Aether Age story today. It finished up… Continue reading
Not a solid day. Was interrupted by miscommunication on date/time for a meeting with Michael A. Stackpole, and that chewed up an hour. I managed to get about 800 words down today before being pulled away to help with 8th grade science homework. Fortunately, my day is wide open tomorrow…. Continue reading
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