Last Run, and Done
Ended with 96,407 after finishing a sentence I left unfinished in the last ten-minute chat run. 3176 words for the day. To the post office now to mail LGD. Then back to see about adding some to the...
View ArticleAmazon/ WalMart
Fascinating discussion here about the difference between Amazon numbers and WalMart numbers. Link via Alison Kent As someone who, for the first time in my career, has (with my debut into suspense)...
View Article“Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated”
Quote from Twain. Some numbers from Midnight Rain. ‘Cause you know I was to the point of reinventing myself because of my fear of the numbers on Midnight Rain, and the fact that I’d heard it hadn’t...
View ArticlePausing to Think
Novel outline is going well, but I needed a break, so I surfed. Douglas Hoffman gave a nice review of Last Girl Dancing; Jcop wants to know where the fourth book in the WORLD GATES series is (Hint:...
View ArticleAutographed Books Hit the Mail
I spent a couple of hours last night autographing the nine copies of Talyn for Sheila’s contest winners. “A couple of hours?” you say. Well, for some of them, I came up with all-new Old Tonk Proverbs....
View ArticleIf I Brought Lambs
The novel LAST GIRL DANCING was born as IF I BROUGHT LAMBS, on 9/1/96, with the following poem that I wrote. I’ve included the whole page, because initially each chapter was supposed to be preceded by...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Book Giveaway (sort of)
Lots of my novels for free if you’ll pay the postage. SUNDAY ADDITION: I underestimated the extent of my problem. And I do have a few copies of some of the later Baen books. And I found the missing...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The New Paranormal Suspense Covers
I finished the following covers for my upcoming novels today: Midnight Rain Midnight Rain: “He’ll NEVER forget you…” I See You I See You: “Someone’s watching…” Last Girl Dancing Last Girl Dancing:...
View ArticleWhy I shut down my Patreon fundraiser
I’d intended to send a Questions & Answers email to my How to Write a Novel launch list, but that’s going to have to wait.Instead, I did THIS. Closed my “Move out of Florida while writing fiction”...
View ArticleYup. That worked like gangbusters: 1376 words, 58,903 total
I ripped out a big chunk of happy, and replaced it with mean, bad, terrible, monstrous, scary… The happy is now all the way at the end of the book, where it belongs, not right smack dab in the middle...
View Article