Day in the life
Tonight at dinner we had a discussion of segregation, since that’s what my son is studying at school. It was a good discussion and we talked about hating on the basis of race, gender, appearance, religion and so on. The…
Curiosity and writing
First, the curiosity. From my site stats, i can tell that a fair number of people have downloaded my dissertation. I’d love to hear from some of them and find out what you’re using it for, or what brought you…
Throne of Game of Thrones
George R. R. Martin is the Guest of Honor at our little Montana con this year. It’s during Memorial Day Weekend. It’s called Miscon and it’s a gem. It’s got a lot of great people, it’s small, it’s got community…
web inept
On Monday I start a new class teaching how to build a webzine. Because of issues on campus, I elected to buy a domain and have it hosted off campus. I did that. I am now waiting for that to…
Questions to ask an agent, part III
All this is probably very meandery (which today is a word), but I’m sort of giving you the benefit of my experience, and I’m sort of wandering from topic to topic as they occur. So let’s start today with the…
Questions to ask an agent part II
So last time I waxed on about finding an agent who’s a good fit. There are a lot of stories out there about agents who don’t fit well and how writers are afraid to “break-up” with them for fear of…
Questions to ask an agent, part I
So Amy in the previous post’s questions, asked what questions I asked my agent. That was more than ten years ago and while some of those would be the same, many would be different now because the publishing world has…
How I got my agent
Some people wonder how authors came by their agents and I thought I’d give my very short story here. I had finished Path of Fate and developed my submission package. I started submitting out query letters to agents and publishers…
Saturday fades into the dust
I’m sick. Last night the man was puking and chills/shakes/sweats/aches. Now I’ve got them, except not puking. Yet. Bad aches though. Joints, head, and I slept about half the day away. Been reading some, but not much else. I’m not…
painting and cat-dogs
Today we have been prepping our front room for painting. We moved furniture and pictures, spackled, sanded, put down paint cloths, plastic and etc, and then primered. We also went and got paint. Tomorrow it’s full scale painting. You have…