Writing

Perfection, Please

So my latest book, Firmament: No Man released last week. Things, of course, did not go smoothly, although certain aspects did, and I’m grateful. But here are just a few of the things that went wrong: 1. Worst and foremost, the Firmament series website is down, and has been for about a year now. We have investigated and tried to…

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Life, Writing

Pronunciation

I’ve been wrapping up a couple of audiobook narration jobs the past few days–both of them are Christmas books, and I really enjoyed working on them both. But they’ve both had their share of issues. One has had unexpected technical issues, but I think those are finally worked out. The other? Well, the other is more what you’d call user…

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Blog Tour, Writing

Guest Post–The Reason for the Typo

The following is a guest thought by Jason McIntire, who wanted to make a quick stop here as he promotes his new novel, Flight School. He believes in trying to say a lot in a short space – which is probably one reason it took him a year and six months, working more or less consistently, to write a novel…

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Life

I Wish I Were a Grown-Up

I don’t normally share personal things on my blog, but my Facebook friends thought that this could potentially fit here–as an expression of life through the eyes of a writer. What do you think? Would you like to see more pieces like this? Ever since I can remember, I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted it when my parents,…

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