Writing Odyssey: Lessons Learned

If you want the background for this post, check The Binge post for a description of my recent unintentional astronomical word count adventure. Short version: I wrote one hundred twenty three thousand words in fifty days. Yow. So, you may ask, what did I learn from writing 123k words in 50 days? Plenty. What do [...]

3 Comments »Filed under: Career, Creativity, Idle Musings, WritingPosted on August 27th, 2010

Writing Odyssey: The Binge

By the time I finish writing this article, I’ll have written 123,000 words in fifty days. The output constitutes two short-book-length works (one novel, one reference work), nine blog posts, two commissioned articles, and some odds and ends of work on another novel. For the first half of the duration, I did it by accident. [...]

1 Comment »Filed under: Career, Creativity, WritingPosted on August 27th, 2010

Microsoft: Consistent Quality Through The Ages

A few months back, after grinding my eight-year-old generic ergo keyboard into the ground I found myself in need of a new ergonomic keyboard. The keyboard failed on a deadline, so I had little choice but to do that thing you’re not supposed to do: shop for computer equipment at Best Buy. I’ve been writing [...]

6 Comments »Filed under: WritingPosted on August 9th, 2010

“Apocalypse Sex” Now Available

Circlet Press’s new anthology, Apocalypse Sex, is now available on Amazon and Smashwords. It contains a new and improved version my novelette Buried Alive In The Blues, which some of you may remember from its appearance on Erotica A La Carte last year. Now you can take it anywhere with you on your handy-dandy e-reader! [...]

1 Comment »Filed under: Career, Fiction SalesPosted on June 29th, 2010

Back in the Podcasting Saddle with Guns

Those of you following the Balticon and Contracts series on the blog have probably been wondering where the hell I’ve been – and those of you following the podcasts are really wondering. Well, I’ve been writing and producing an album. Wish there was a sexier answer, but there it is. And it is fun I’m [...]

9 Comments »Filed under: Podcasting, Science, WritingPosted on June 22nd, 2010

The Great Ass-Moving Experiment

As a writer, like most writers, I have one giant terror point. For some people it’s the writing. For some people it’s showing your work to friends, or to strangers. For some people it’s marketing in general. For me, it’s marketing fiction to editors. I don’t have a problem with nonfiction (as my bibliography demonstrates), [...]

15 Comments »Filed under: ANMAP, Business, Career, Contests, Fiction Sales, WritingPosted on June 4th, 2010

Minor Milestones

These are the milestones which I know, from experience, will seem piddly small in retrospect, but for me at the moment they represent surmounting a ridgeline and seeing the valley beyond. The valley might be filled with swamps, marshes, and tangles under the trees, but from here it’s gorgeous. I can’t sit here. There’s thousands [...]

2 Comments »Filed under: Career, Fiction SalesPosted on May 20th, 2010

The Pod Complex

It may be a minor thing in retrospect, but today it’s tickling my socks off. My first fiction print sales are now available from Amazon. The Pod Complex is an anthology of the best stories from the podosphere in genres ranging from mystery to horror with all stops in between. My own stories Cold Duty, [...]

1 Comment »Filed under: Books, Career, Fiction Sales, Publishing, WritingPosted on May 6th, 2010

It’s Time To Bust It Open

As part of my self-education as a writer learning to market his work, I’ve been watching trends in e-books and audiobooks as well as publishing industry trends, and thinking about them in the context of podcasting as an endeavor that takes a lot of passion and commitment from very creative people. With all the talk [...]

If You Build It, Will They Come?

Free content – particularly in the audio fiction space – suddenly seems a lot less of a perpetual free lunch than it did six months ago, and it’s got a lot of folks freaking out in my corner of the Internet. Providers are dropping like flies this year! Matthew Wayne Selznick and J.C. Hutchins have [...]

Buried Alive in an Anthology

I am pleased to report that the story I originally wrote for Philippa Ballantine‘s podcast project Erotica a la Carte has just sold to Circlet Press, and will be included in their forthcoming anthology Apocalypse Sex. Buried Alive In The Blues is the story of Irene, a widow who finds herself trapped by a months-long [...]

No Comments »Filed under: Career, Fiction Sales, WritingPosted on January 31st, 2010

Falling For A Ruse?

Are the New Atheists Bad for Science? By J. Daniel Sawyer In an article on Beliefnet this week, Michael Ruse argues that the “new atheists” are a “bloody disaster.” He argues using a mixture of caricatures, complaints, and criticisms, so before I go into why I think the man is full of organic fertilizer on [...]

Kiwi Sourdough: The Biggest News Yet!

I am pleased to announce that my friend and sometimes actor Philippa Ballantine and I will be collaborating on a new project this year. Although my creative partner on this endeavor and I are both known for our steamy fiction, this project takes it to a whole new level. Beginning in December, we will be [...]

1 Comment »Filed under: Books, Career, WritingPosted on July 24th, 2009

Parsec Finalist!

Well, ladies and germs, it’s official: Predestination is a parsec finalist. Officially we’re up for “Best New Speculative Fiction Podcaster/Team,” and, while it’s only *one* of the nominations I was hoping for, if i had to pick only one this would probably be it. Why’s that? Well, this one has the advantage of being a [...]

1 Comment »Filed under: Career, Podcasting, Podcasts, Predestination, Unsavory ExcursionsPosted on July 24th, 2009

Updates, general and specific

I’m stopping in to give you all a quick digest on my recent activities, which have been many, prolific, and at hopefully somewhat scandalous. First, the appearances. You can find me on recent episodes of Podioracket, The Dead Robots Society, and doing voice work as the German Army in Philippa Ballantine’s Weather Child. You can [...]

No Comments »Filed under: Books, Career, LinuxJournal, Podcasting, Unsavory Excursions, WritingPosted on July 9th, 2009
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