I’ve been very focused on pacing as of late. Not like doom pacing around the living room thinking about the state of the world, but story-telling pacing. How structure and word choice impact the pace of action and reader enjoyment. I have no issue with the slow-burn story if it Read more
Summer has come and gone, like it always does. I was hoping to have bumped up my reading count but alas life had different plans. I know I had a stretch of more action thrillers lined up. Given my next book is more of an action techno-thriller, I wanted to Read more
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