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Every writer knows the ultimate secret to being prolific is Butt-in-Chair time. Workshops, how-to books, marketing- there’s a place for many things but they can never be a replacement for good old fashioned putting-words-to-a-page. As I’ve been carefully eyeing the release of Shade City, it occurred to me that I needed to keep moving forward. […]

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Some fellow authors are writing blog posts that relate to their books and vacation. I thought that was interesting because I just started adding Seventh Sons bonus content about Flagstaff, Arizona. Read my entry here. As far as the rest of the authors, please take time to check out their posts. GSRG Blog Tour Stops […]

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It was a short week. I only got 8000 words in for the Seventh Sons sequel. There’s a bit of laziness involved that I need to nip in the bud. On the other hand, I’ve been doing my best not to pay too much attention to the launch of Shade City (The full novel is […]

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Shade City is officially live. The Dead Side Blues is book one of my new urban fantasy series. Dante Butcher is a twenty-four-year-old programmer living alone in Los Angeles. At least, that’s the part of him people see. He doesn’t tell them he dreams of the Dead Side: a skewed land of past and present […]

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I fear my social media presence this week has been dismal. But you know what? I don’t care. In fact, I’m downright pleased with myself. Because I started writing the Seventh Sons sequel on Tuesday. My word count goal is 2500 a day, and I hit that all four days. That’s over 10k words in […]

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It was a great week of wrapping things up. Of bringing tasks to an end so that others can begin. First off, I finished integrating all the changes to my Urban Fantasy manuscript from my editor. Philip Newey does great work and I can’t recommend him enough. With the final pass of my latest novel […]

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The sequel to The Seventh Sons of Sycamore is more or less outlined. Having done this process a few times by now, I have some observations. I find it helpful to divide the book up into Beginning, Middle, and Ending. The Beginning needs a very detailed scene by scene breakdown. It sets the mood and […]

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I’m starting two brand new projects. One is a sequel to The Seventh Sons of Sycamore, which was released in March but mostly written in 2013. The other is Project Zero, a short story. That’s a lot of new ideas to come up with, and I don’t want to take too long, cause time’s a […]

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I used to work in the video game industry. Crunch Time was  a dreaded concept. It’s basically working overtime to hit a milestone. To continue the parallel with writing books, Alpha should be the completion of the first draft. The book is done from beginning to end, but it has lots of problems. Then comes […]

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So I thought it might be fun to publicize one of my future projects. My first priority is finishing the revisions on my WIP novel so I can send it to the editor. Then, naturally, I’m going to start outlining the sequel to The Seventh Sons of Sycamore. But there’s something else on the backburner […]

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