Some have said naming a character is like naming a kid. Seems extreme to me. If you screw up a kid’s name you don’t have to live with that. I don’t have kids so my characters are more important by default. Kids or no kids, naming characters that you’ll be Read more…
September?! I like September but not when it shows up on my doorstep without warning. The last few days here in New England have had a touch of fall in the air. Temperature has dropped to near perfect, and the smell of nature changing starts biting at the senses. It’s Read more…
This is going to be more of a rant, so bear with me. Spoilers ahead for Alien: Romulus and other flicks…maybe. Above is how I feel when franchises force nostalgia and previous film nods on me. On release day I saw the new Alien flick, Alien: Romulus. Excitement was high. Read more…
Originally I planned to write up monthly summaries of books I’d read. I’d also planned to read more. Well, time had different plans soooo now I’m grouping them by season / quarter. And since summer is almost over that one will be coming soon BUT let’s go back and remember Read more…
Backstory! Not mine but those that authors create to give characters depth as they traverse the obstacles thrown at them in a story. That’s the backstory I’m talking about. I’m still navigating the best way to create backstory for my characters. With my first novel, HOST, I had these in Read more…
This week marked the one year anniversary of the release of my debut novel HOST. In that time I’ve sold close to seven hundred copies across digital and print. I’m a few hundred copies away from breaking even. Not too shabby. It could be better, there is more I could Read more…
Like the Atari game of the same name (or the reboot SNES title), Act III’s can be like pits in the jungle. One second you’re cruising along vine to vine then it’s down a pit of despair with no return or payoff but to start over. There’s a lot of Read more…
Last month I went on a little road trip with my mom to North Carolina to visit some family friends, we decided to take a little detour to West Virginia to visit the Green Bank Observatory. GBO plays a big role in my novel HOST, but while I was writing Read more…
As part of my revisit basics of writing while I pick away at my second novel, I started to explore scene transitions. In early drafts of HOST, scene transitions were not intentional for me. I think some aspects and points I hit naturally, simply from reading books you pick up Read more…
How is it May already? Deep into finding ways to promote HOST, and finishing a first draft of my next book, I’ve been picking away at my reading list (although I am behind by six books already). I read these back in Jan / Feb, a little all over the Read more…