Friday, May 18, 2012

First Chemo, and a some vague thoughts on writing

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Well, Lana had her first chemo treatment yesterday.  It was a long day, from about 8:20 to 2:00 in the chair with infusions of various medic...
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Sunday, May 13, 2012

A New Kind of Summer

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Our graduation ceremony was yesterday.  I have to return the monkey suit (graduation regalia) on Tuesday and check in at the office for anyt...
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Tuesday, May 08, 2012

Tubb versus Kern

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E. C. Tubb (1919-2010) was a well known British writer who wrote over 140 novels and hundreds of short stories under as many as 58 pen...
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Saturday, May 05, 2012

Cold in the Light on Sale, and Harmland

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Cold in the Light is on sale for $2.84 as a Kindle ebook this week.  That's 2 dollars off the regular price so it's a pretty good d...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Been A While

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Been a while since I blogged. I’ve been giving and grading finals, meeting with students, meeting for the last time in the semester with va...
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Monday, April 23, 2012

Bits and Pieces of News

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A couple of interesting bits, at least for me. 1. My first novel, Cold in the Light , is finally available as a Kindle ebook. It's $...
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

The Evolution of Gossip

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I won’t claim to have always been innocent of gossiping. I’ve done it, though I generally despise myself after. In most cases, I’ve gossip...
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Saturday, April 14, 2012

What the Genres Taught Me: Or Tried To Anyway

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Everything we experience shapes us. That includes the stuff we read. I got to thinking recently of what the books I read in my youth taugh...
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Sunday, April 08, 2012

Self Publishing Report:

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Well, “Harvest of War” was free for five days and there were 466 downloads in that time. Seems like a respectable number, but I’ve never d...
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Friday, April 06, 2012

Red Dead and Harvest

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I've done too much mindless stuff on my break, or maybe just enough. I've played a lot of my video game, Red Dead Redemption, and a...
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Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Much News: Even Some About Writing

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We left the house a little after 8:00 this morning and got back a little before 7:00 in the evening. Lana had an appointment with another d...
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Monday, April 02, 2012

Things I’ve Noted of Note:

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Been a while since I’ve done a post about stuff that’s happening of note in the world. So here it is. 1. The excellent werewolf novel c...
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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Life

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No matter the things that happen, life keeps rolling right along. Today marks the beginning of Spring Break for my university. We're off...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Tammy, and a Story Dedication

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I’ve been planning for about a month to dedicate my next published work to my niece, Tammy Kalb, who has been suffering from brain cancer fo...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

Resignation, at Novel Spaces

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I posted over on Novel Spaces today. I've decided, with sadness, to resign from posting there for the foreseeable future. Some day I...
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Lana

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This is the hardest post I've ever had to write on the blog. Many of you already know, from Facebook, that Lana has been diagnosed with...
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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

An Ordered Desk, An Ordered Mind.

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Some folks seem to thrive on emotional chaos. I'm not one of them. Emotional upset brings me to a standstill. I become an automaton, g...
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Saturday, March 17, 2012

The Price of Thinking

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I’ve been thinking. I understand how dangerous that is. But perhaps you’ll bear with me. I decided over the Christmas break that I was go...
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Monday, March 12, 2012

A Fascinating Tidbit:

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Here’s a fascinating little bit of information I’ve just come across. At least it’s fascinating to me. I discovered it in the Evolutionary...
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Saturday, March 10, 2012

Writing and Fun at Novel Spaces

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I've got a piece up at Novel Spaces today on the fun in writing. I hope you can stop by. --- ---
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Some Classroom Errors

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One thing I’ve done for my writing class this year is give them specific examples of common errors made by students who’ve taken the class i...
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Monday, March 05, 2012

Mid-terms in. Caught up on Grading for Now

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Wow! That was the longest marathon grading session I’ve had in several years. Teaching the writing class is a tremendous investment of tim...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Break from Blogging and Reviews

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I've got to take a few days off blogging and commenting on blogs. Just too much grading to do. Two full length tests, a quiz, and twen...
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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Telling Lies, Up at Novel Spaces

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New post up at Novel Spaces this morning. I'm talking about lying in fiction and reality. I hope you can stop by. Here's a coupl...
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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Days of Beer: New Cover

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I'd hoped to get it done before now, but I finally got around to revising and improving the original cover for Days of Beer . You can ...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Second Hand Books

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After the electricity went out on Saturday, Lana and headed out to the second hand store. I generally spend most of my time looking at the ...
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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Micro Burst

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Mardi Gras is here and I'm off through Wednesday. So far, working would have been better. I'd arranged to get a set of term papers...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

The Toad

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I've started a new story. It's called "The Toad." One piece of common writing advice I've generally ignored has been...
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Sunday, February 12, 2012

A Frosty Matter

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Sun shining, but it's fairly cold here today. Around 38 on our back deck. I have to admit, I kind of like it. I grew up in Arkansas a...
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Friday, February 10, 2012

Fiction versus Nonfiction at Novel Spaces

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I'm over at Novel Spaces today with a post about fiction versus nonfiction, and how story is the king in all. Hope you'll drop by....
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Thursday, February 09, 2012

In the Language of Scorpions: Review

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Well, two days in a row with reviews up of some of my stuff. This time, Randy Johnson, over at his Not the Baseball Pitcher Blog has weigh...
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Wednesday, February 08, 2012

Musings on Days of Beer

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Over at his "Musings" blog, Sage has a review of Days of Beer and a short essay on his own drinking experiences. His were a bit ...
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Monday, February 06, 2012

The Evolution of a Career

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My interest in the Theory of Evolution began when I was in college, first as a biology major and then a psychology major. As soon as I unde...
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Saturday, February 04, 2012

On My Kindle

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I suppose it was inevitable. After all, my “To Be Read” piles in print have grown to mammoth proportions over the years. For a while, my K...
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012

So What is Fast Writing?

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Once in a while, someone will tell me they wish they could write as fast as I do. Over the years it’s occurred quite a few times, but I’m s...
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Sunday, January 29, 2012

Kindle and Nook Collections

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Some folks I know who are self-publishing on Kindle are talking about hundreds of sales for their works a month. (I don’t know any of those...
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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Strange Worlds Contest: The Winner

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Well, it took me longer than I'd planned to have my drawing for the copy of Strange Worlds , the illustrated Sword & Planet antholog...
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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Surprise blog at Novel Spaces

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My post at Novel Spaces is still up today, but is the second post down from the top now. It's about "Surprise" in writing. ...
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Saturday, January 21, 2012

In the Language of Scorpions

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The moonlight settled over the December beach like snow birds coming in to roost on an arctic plain. And the midnight world was brush-stroke...
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Friday, January 20, 2012

Writing and Other Fun Things

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I've finished two stories in the past few days. One was the "Swampy Jack" story, which ended up under the title "The Fine...
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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Styx versus The Priest

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I was driving the other day when a song came on the radio that I didn’t remember ever having heard before. My first thoughts were, “Wow, thi...
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

A Life Lesson

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I don't often buy new shirts, but I did at the end of 2011. I needed 'em for school. I bought 'one' long-sleeved shirt, beca...
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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

The Genesis of an Idea, at Novel Spaces

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I'm over at Novel Spaces today with a post about generating writing ideas. It's related to an idea for a story that occurred to me ...
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Monday, January 09, 2012

Upcoming!

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I'm looking forward to what I hope will be a couple of big publications in 2012. I hesitate almost to mention them, having been burned t...
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Friday, January 06, 2012

A Pub and some Reviews

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My last post featured a giveaway and I'm going to let that run a little longer, so if you haven't yet entered the drawing for a copy...
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Tuesday, January 03, 2012

New School Year, a Review, and a Giveaway

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My son, Josh, is coming up today so I won't be around the net much. And tomorrow I start back to school so I'm going to be less regu...
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Sunday, January 01, 2012

So how was 2011 from a Writing Perspective?

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I guess most folks my age or older will agree that the events of a single year kind of run together these days. I remember events but I don’...
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