Here’s that Wrong Left Turn In Albuquerque… and it’s as bad as I dreaded.

The first sixty pages of Ohio 3 held up fine. Starting on manuscript page 61, I went in exactly the wrong direction, dropped the really good local character I had in place for one who broke my otherwise tight worldbuilding through two novels and the start of this one all to shit, threw in a… Continue reading Here’s that Wrong Left Turn In Albuquerque… and it’s as bad as I dreaded.

Dead Man’s Party — and Fiction as the Day Job again…

Dead Man's Party

Got 1515+ words this morning on Dead Man’s Party, in a smidge under an hour. Also built my work process for getting a LOT more fiction done, and spending the first two to three hours of every weekday on that. My daughter Becca is going to modify the process I came up with (after some… Continue reading Dead Man’s Party — and Fiction as the Day Job again…

Dreaming the Dead

It was 1:37 AM when I woke up. It’s 1:48 AM right now, and I’m still shaky. I dreamed I was visited by Jim Baen, and by someone speaking for him. I didn’t know his intermediary, but Jim Baen was my first publisher, and he taught me a huge amount about the business, and, frankly,… Continue reading Dreaming the Dead

Hak bas gokmat!

The language of the Sun Wizards is adding a bit of low comedy to the story. That particular phrase has giving Genna and her best friend Catri a nasty wake-up call—and sends them hurtling into an adventure with the silver door. And they’ve found a sort of newspaper, one about as scary as anything they’ve… Continue reading Hak bas gokmat!

So. About the Writing.

So. Penguin. The EMT Proposal is toast. We’re discussing me going in an entirely different direction. I’m not posting details until we’ve sealed the deal, because there are some things about it that I might not be completely free to discuss. It isn’t what I’d planned on, but it does offer some interesting possibilities.