In Shadows

Here I sit at the Urban Grind coffee house in the Pearl District.  I was impressed with the funky little place the last time I was here.  Unfortunately, thats’ when I got so deathly ill and I haven’t been back since.
But today I have a purpose.
Last night while online, I became bored, really bored.  I […]

I’ve been published for about six years (off and on as I swapped around publishers.) I’ve always been pretty much a POD name, unfortunately. I know that there were some specialty book stores that ordered my titles for their shelves, but not in my town.
I found a website called BookFinder.com . . . […]

And I write. 1952 words, chapter twenty-six of Orphan Maker is complete.
Also ran errands today. Picked up my month’s prescription, did some banking, and went to the audiologist to pick up my new ear molds. There’s a definite improvement in hearing with them. The rubber and plastic get old and less […]

Work’s been busy, busy, busy, and I haven’t had a lot of time to concentrate on the writing, so it’s been slow going.
I just finished the final edits and added the dedication, bio, and acknowledgements for Tiopa. Whew! Since this is the final go round, I had to really pay attention […]

An announcement has been put out on the ‘verse about a former employee of Fortitude selling off the abandoned stock of titles. The books have been stored in her basement almost from the beginning of the company, and it will cost three or four hundred dollars to have the local waste management company haul […]

I really hope that when I swap over to day shifts permanently, I’ll be able to organize my day properly. Can’t seem to get anything done with any regularity except dishes.
A couple of days ago I wrote about 500 words on Orphan Maker. Deleted them today and rewrote them. Only 500 for […]

Sooooooo . . . getting up at 4am sucks! Getting off work at 1 or 2 in the afternoon? Priceless.
No writing on Monday afternoon due to the apartment investigation. The one we were looking at has been rented . . . dammit. We don’t want any others, but the […]

(reprinted with permission)
“Couldn’t the novel simply focus on the love between Anpo and Kathleen…and the conflicts would arise from some of the cultural practices and how they (Anpo & Ketlin and the Lakota) deal with them. Throw in some suitors for Anpo and see what happens. Can both husband and wife take a second mate? […]

Two Spirit people emerging as tales are told
You may have to register to see the article. It discusses the re-emergence of the two spirited Indians across the United States.
Thanks to MacD for the link!

Had some interesting questions emailed me yesterday. I thought some of you might want to hear the answers to them, and received permission to post them here.

Q. Last week I bought a copy from Amazon’s used books section. While at that site I noticed a copy of said book, the 1st edition [Tiopa […]

Tiopa is back to the publisher. I’m told there’ll be another round of edits from a different set of eyes. Then we’ll begin working on Warlord Metal. (And I think that one’s going to need a little more work. The start is pretty slow. Don’t know how to beef it […]

P.D. Publishing is proud to announce that we will be publishing the following books:
Castle Walls, 2nd edition by D. Jordan Redhawk, available in the Summer of 2006. Also from Redhawk, Tiopa Ki Lakota, 3rd edition and Warlord Metal, 2nd edition, both available Fall 2005.

Or yesterday . . .
Got Tiopa back from the publisher for a going over. I’m nearly done with that, but won’t finish until tomorrow.
Down the hall is a two bedroom apartment that’s opening up. We’ve already signed a year lease for the one we’re in, though. The wife spoke with the […]

Though not many. Just updated the pages for Tiopa Ki Lakota and Warlord Metal to include the really damned COOL covers Steph Solomon-Lopez did! Damn, these thing ROCK! Go to the menu bar on the left and check them out!

Miles, that is. I’ve written Lainey out of Shaktoolik, through a six hour break at Koyuk, and on her way to Elim. Hopefully the end of this chapter will see her out of Elim and on toward Golovin.
The next stretch after that will be short and sweet with only a mandatory 8 hour […]