I’m chugging away like a madman on the second draft of My Last Days, editing out long unneeded parts, making my characters stronger and solidifying the story itself. By my math, I’m about 30% done with the second draft and Lauren (my editor extraordinaire) is ready in the wings for when I’m done and will […]
I’ll admit that I’ve been feeling a little defeated lately. The lack of sales of A Sour Chord – though mostly my fault for not really marketing it – have me questioning why I’m even doing this. Not because I want the money, that’s not – and never has been – what this is about. […]
I published A Sour Chord on May 18th of this year and immediately went back to work on My Last Days, trying to finish that book’s first draft. Since then, sales of A Sour Chord have dropped off significantly, selling maybe one or two copies a month on Kindle or iBooks, none on the other […]
In the late 90s, I met a lot of my friends online. This story is about a girl I met (through someone else online) and eventually invited her over for dinner when she was going to be in town.
I’ve got a handful of people reading My Last Days right now. Not to tell me that I missed a comma or a closing quote or the like, but to tell me what they think of the story. I read through it twice when I finished the first draft and I’m not fully sure that […]
A friend of mine and I liked to drive around together after work, just seeing where we’d end up. One night, we ended up at Hampton Beach and stopped on a bridge to look at the water. The cops pulled us over, thinking we threw a gun over the side.
It seems like it flew by once I started working on, it really did. Once A Sour Chord was published and for sale, I started hitting My Last Days again. And hit it hard I did. The total word count is just over 92k, and the story seems to all warrant such a word count. […]
Perhaps that’s not the best title for a blog post, but it’s true. The end is, in fact, near. The end of the first draft of My Last Days, that is. If all goes according to plan, I should finish this week and start my first round of edits either this weekend or early next […]
My dad had his pilot’s license as a kid and we spent our weekends flying places. This is the story of how that all came about.
Over the past year and a half, since I started this journey, I’ve been to countless websites, blogs, Facebook pages, GoodReads profiles, Amazon Author pages and a zillion other services for authors. What’s the most surprising to me is how few authors have real websites, on their own domain. As someone who works a day […]
Now that A Sour Chord is fully done and for sale in the various market places, I’ve decided to put off all of the other real-world tasks that I have to complete and get back to work on My Last Days. Last week I started re-reading everything I’d written so far, so I can be […]
I clicked the “Publish” button across all three of the major publishing platforms three weeks ago today, at least what I thought was the three major platforms. It was quickly requested to be published to Google Play, which I hadn’t even thought about, as my sister has an Android device now. And I figured I’d […]
