In Shadows

Thanks to Fran for reminding me to get a move on and update this site!  LOL!  Seems I’m a total slacker these days (which everyone here knows at this point, I think.) The Sanguire novel is complete.  It went out on April Fool’s Day (no foolin’!) to Daw.  No word yet, but I wasn’t expecting [...]

I promised myself that I’d update this blog at least once a month.  I mean, why pay for a website that never gets updated? Waste of money — and with the economy in shambles, I can’t affort to let what I have leak away. So … Happy February!  LOL! The first Sanguire book is still [...]

What with the economy crashing, the hundreds and thousands of jobs going by the wayside, and the looming homelessness occurring in our society these days, my best wish for everyone is to maintain…  I hope we all can keep the money rolling enough to pay the necessary bills, to buy the food for ourselves and [...]

It’s been far too long since I’ve been here, but the absence was necessary. To be honest, I hated to post another ‘haven’t-written-a-damned-thing-yet’ entry, so decided not to post anything at all.  It’s one thing to say you’re confident the writer’s block will move on.  I found it’s quite another to be it.  The more [...]

Going great here!  As of now, I’m completely out of the Catering department at my hotel.  I’m a fully trained Loss Prevention officer instead.  Security is a wonderful department!  I’ve had time to THINK! Just yesterday alone, I completely restructured Sanguire.  jrosestar, thanks for calling off the bet!  That entire novel is now defunct.  No [...]

You know who you are… I’ve finished the hard copy edits of Sanguire.  Today I start working backwards through the manuscript — ala Holly Lisle’s ‘One Pass Edit’ process — to guarantee one physical sense on every page. How far have you gotten?

The last day… *sniff* Believable and Lovable Evil How do you write believable villians taking over your story?  Can you make them evil and still lovable? Mary Rosenblum, David D. Levine, Todd McCaffrey, phyllis irene radford – motivation is primary for a villain.  He is a hero in his own book. – “Fanaticism isn’t about [...]

Hel, lazy month, too. Slept ten and a half hours last night. Didn’t even get up every couple of hours as is my wont. Then I took a two hour nap later in the morning. Not sure what the deal is; the last few days at work have been blissfull as far as the lack [...]

Done! Complete! YAY! Born of Silence now awaits the eager attention of a half dozen first readers. Total wordcount for today was 16,376. I have 2 weeks before vacation . . . and lots of books to be reading until I leave! Woot!

Thanks to all who volunteered. All bets are down and the wheel is spinning. I hope to complete the final draft by Sunday night. Monday afternoon at the latest. I’m trying to get a section of my site password protected so y’all can download it from there, but it’s proving to be a pain. I [...]

Total word count for today is a whopping 20,992. Edited seven chapters in the last five hours. It’s enough. No more today. My elbows aren’t happy with me. Anybody else?

It hasn’t even been a week and I’m posting already! What a concept! Wednesday through Friday I rested up from Hel Month at work. Ran a few errands but mostly hung out at home with The Song of Ice and Fire series previously mentioned. Just started book four and have heard that the author plans [...]

…so good. Spent yesterday reading through the first seventeen and a half chapters of Born of Silence. Also went in to my audiologist to have my hearing checked and the aids looked over. The aids are doing fine and dandy, but the hearing is worse. I’ve got a name and number for an ear, nose, [...]

Flu’s over. YAY! When to my rhematologist last week . . . No more Plaquanel. YAY! I have the next two days off. YAY! I’ve been reading and not writing. BOO! George R. R. Martin’s latest installment finally came out last year, and my wife got me all four books for Yule. I really haven’t [...]

Yesterday. Further into the next scene. Fiona’s acting loopy, and Whiskey’s thinking it’s time to bail. Dorst should make his appearance soon. Today, however, I need to finish the Castle Walls edits. No writing tomorrow — 11 hour shift at work, guaranteed. I may call off on Tuesday, though. I think I’m coming down with [...]