Month: August 2014

  • SUZEE DELIGHT is LIVE!

    Took longer than I planned, but THE SELLING OF SUZEE DELIGHT: Tales From The Longview Episode 2, is now live and available here. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • Super-Snippet: The Selling of Suzee Delight—all three scenes of CHAPTER ONE

    All rightee. Deep breath for me, here. Just got finished putting THE SELLING OF SUZEE DELIGHT, Tales from The Longview: Episode 2, up on Amazon. It should go live tomorrow at some point, and when it does, I’ll send out notices. I love this story. I cannot believe how much I love this story. It…

  • SUZEE DELIGHT is off to the copyeditor

    The story wrapped (in what I’m considering the final version) at 29,706 words. 9706 words over what I’d planned, or one third of another story. However, this episode turned out to be far more important to the overall series than I’d anticipated—I got into a couple things in it I wasn’t expecting to see in…

  • Why Lauren Orbison Chose to Go Indie

    I’ve been corresponding back and forth with a student of mine for a while now, and think you’ll find the story of how she hit print inspiring—and amazing. So I’d like to introduce you to Lauren Orbison, author of Tortellini [link goes to her site], and her tell you this story herself. Lauren garnered serious…

  • The state of the revision of THE SELLING OF SUZEE DELIGHT

    I did my first editor’s revision. Added a bunch of words to the story. In the first revision, I nailed the ending, but screwed up one big character issue while fixing a problem from the first revision. Am doing the second editor’s revision today. After that, assuming Matt’s third read of the story gets me…

  • The child-molester ex is dead

    This is old news by now, and I wasn’t even going to mention it, except I realize that a lot of my readers know the story, know that the bastard never paid for his crimes against my two older kids in spite of confessing much of what he did to them, and that these readers…

  • SUZEE DELIGHT gets longer

    Worked six hours on type-in revision today. I’m 60% of the way through the type-in, and as usual, the story is getting longer. Today, even after some big cuts, I ended up with a 522-word net gain, and a word count of 24,728. I have some big cuts in the last third, but also MOST…

  • Suzee Delight revision finished!

    Over the last two days, I’ve done 10,000-ish words per day on the write-in revision for Suzee Delight. I’m VERY happy with the way it turned out. I’ll do type-in tomorrow. Getting close to being able to take it live. Download as PDFPrint Page

  • The Scoliosis Surprise

    I debated posting this. It might not seem like it, but in a lot of areas, I’m a very private person. And this story starts with a cancer scare, and switches gears bizarrely, and that isn’t something I’d generally talk about——but the fact is, no matter who you are, this post could help you and…