Sunday, July 31, 2011

A Review of Killing Trail, and More

Travis Erwin gives a good mention to Killing Trail over on his blog . I'm glad the book is being so well received. Thanks, Travis. I re...
Friday, July 29, 2011

Painting, and My Personal West

We've been having some work done on our house for the past couple of days and they are painting in my room, among other things. That...
Friday, July 22, 2011

Hell West

My dream last night began with a college age man sitting in a class for would-be teachers. The students are practice teaching and one young ...
Monday, July 18, 2011

Doc Savage, Quake 4, Writing

You can download the newest issue of The Illuminata today, with articles and reviews, including an opinion piece by me on “Doc Savage: The ...
Friday, July 15, 2011

More Star Trek Versus Conan

Here's a bit more of that, dare I call it, "humor?" Well here goes anyway. Many people think Chekov has an accent because he’...
Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Three Days Off

I "finished" Under the Ember Star on Friday and for the past three days have refused to allow myself to look at it, or even think ...
Sunday, July 10, 2011

Alien in the Family, at Novel Spaces

I'm over at Novel Spaces for the next couple of days. I did a post on the hybrids in literature, particularly in science fiction. I hop...
Friday, July 08, 2011

Conan Versus Star Trek

In the line of the books about how bad ass Chuck Norris is, I was thinking about putting together a book about Conan the Barbarian versus St...
Wednesday, July 06, 2011

CAPSULE BOOK REVIEWS, APA 94, 95

I’m so close to the end of “Under the Ember Star” I can taste it, and I’ve been writing myself out on that so I don’t have a lot of energy t...
Sunday, July 03, 2011

White Cat Comes Alive

I’m pleased as a good beer to let everyone know that White Cat Publications is now live and rockin’. This promises to be a great site for b...
Saturday, July 02, 2011

When the Dam Breaks

A while back I posted about hitting the wall on my WIP, “Under the Ember Star.” That wall proved tough to get over. I find a book develops a...
Wednesday, June 29, 2011

In Praise of Nonfiction

I talk a lot about fiction on my blog, about reading it and writing it. Usually when I mention loving to read I’m referring to fiction, and ...
Sunday, June 26, 2011

Ashedit on Gramlich

I feel like all I'm doing lately is touting my own horn, but there's something neat that's just gone up that I want to call to y...
Saturday, June 25, 2011

Buddies in the Saddle Review

Well, I haven't normally been posting every day but I had to put up a link to Ron Scheer's review of Killing Trail . Ron captured ex...
Friday, June 24, 2011

Progress and a Retrospective

I've been doing a lot of writing and I can 'see' the end of "Under the Ember Star." My pace as slowed but I know the ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

More Reviews

A post just went up by me over at Rogue Blades today on "I Dream of Heroes." I only realized it went up this morning so if you g...
Saturday, June 18, 2011

Father's Day

I didn’t have many Father’s Days with my dad. I remember wishing him happy Father’s Day a few times, but I can’t recall any gifts I gave him...
Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Whispers and Cash

I’ve recently finished two Kindle ebooks written by friends of mine. Both were excellent books, and I wouldn’t say so if I didn’t feel it t...
Monday, June 13, 2011

Hitting the Wall

It seems to happen in nearly every book. I don't remember it happening with Swords of Talera , but in every other book I've written...