• The Cipher

    February 9, 2014 /

    I finished my revision of The Cipher for reissue and sent it off to my editor. I feel like I made HUGE changes, and yet, most of the book is the same. The changes are minor, and yet I feel…

  • shoring up

    February 5, 2014 /

    I’ve been shoring up the characterizations in The Cipher, as I’ve mentioned before. On thing that I noticed, in a happy way, is that the character of Edgar and the way I wrote him reminds me of Red Reddington on…

  • the news that is

    January 30, 2014 /

    I know, I’m not really posting much this week. The boy continues to be sick. I have been working on The Cipher for reissue. The weather has been very nice, and generally things have continued to plod along. We got…

  • What you can tell me

    January 21, 2014 /

    As you know, Belle Bridge books is reissuing the Crosspointe Chronicles. I’m in the process of going over The Cipher (I always liked this book–all the books, really) but I’m finding that I’m making some significant changes in some scenes…

  • Of dreams too strange to be nightmares

    January 19, 2014 /

    I had a weird dream last night. It seemed to tie together teaching, the cattle ranch where I grew up, and attending a con. I don’t exactly understand (or don’t begin to understand) what exactly the story was in the…

  • cryptic

    January 17, 2014 /

    I was invited to apply to do something very cool, so I did, and now I’m waiting for the higherups in the process to give me a green or red light. Keep your fingers crossed. Not writing related. I had…

  • checking in on life

    January 15, 2014 /

    I don’t have a lot of updates on the boy. Still barfing, though he is sleeping better. I have several things to get done over the next six weeks. 1) make any updates/changes to The Cipher for reissue, 2) revise…

  • What a character fears most

    January 8, 2014 /

    I was looking at some stuff on plotting and thinking about what I know about characters. One of the things that you can do to sort out a character and story is to think about what that character fears the…

  • the work and the boy

    January 7, 2014 /

    The boy was scoped today. I videotaped some of him being really goofy on drugs. The doc found nothing in particular so far. We wait for biopsies. There was one small nodule that could be something or not, and that…

  • panic attack

    January 6, 2014 /

    I’ve had an endoscopy. It’s not that bad. I don’t remember much and I had a sort throat after. It was pretty non-traumatic. Okay, that’s actually a lie. Because it was paired with a colonoscopy, it was terrible. Mostly the…