March always sucks; it's the busiest month for my day job. If you count emails, I wrote something like 70,000 words. If you don't, I wrote approximately jack and squat. Similarly, I read a zillion pages of procedure manuals, but…
My free time has been starkly limited these past few months. I'm unsustainably busy-- I blink and lose a week. So let me try a new thing, to counter this sinkhole consuming my memory; I'm going to keep a record…
A sketch of the main characters from a finished adult fantasy WIP.
Once upon a time, there was a cursed princess, a blessed baby prince, and a little orphan nursemaid that nobody really loved.
Insights from a text-based conversation with friends of mine who were kind enough to encourage me to ramble about book genres.
New novel in progress, plus comp title discussion for the last one.
The former opening paragraphs of a short story I'm reworking.
Pictures from the Rhine Valley.
Gotta say, I miss novels, where you can set up intricate conflict that slowly unfolds between complex characters. Short stories are a vastly different beast. But it's fun to be able to say, "Hey, I'm done," after the equivalent of…
Food we ate at a castle hotel in the Rhine Valley. Highlight of the trip, in my opinion.