Why is finding a new keyboard so difficult? WARNING: Super long, very boring. Read at your own risk. As someone who has always enjoyed writing since I was in my teens, the keyboard is a device I have grown to be pretty choosey about. While I did start writing on our family Commodore 64 back in high school, I can’t say I had a preference for or against its keyboard simply because I was rarely exposed to any other varieties.[…]
Catching up
So I realize it’s been a long long time since I posted here last, but I’m ending that dry spell here and now. I’m not dead, I’m still writing, and I’ve got a few things going so I thought I’d at least make a post or two and catch up a little. First of all, yes, the next book in the Cortanis saga—you didn’t think I was going to stop with just three books, did you?—is underway and off to[…]
Unbound 2018
I realize I’m quite a bit behind. But I wanted to post this here because to not do so would be a waste of my friend Kerri’s time, who graciously came to Unbound Book Festival in April, 2018 at my request to photograph the panel I was on, called “Do It Yourself: Self-Publishing 101”. Kerri is awesome and I hate the fact that it’s taken me so long to post these, but here they are. For as nervous as I[…]
Launch!
It’s been an incredible week! Yes, that’s my Naomi, sitting right there at #4 on the Amazon Best Sellers list for Science Fiction TV, Movie & Game Tie-In. This screenshot doesn’t show it, but Ghosts was situated there along with The Martian by Andy Weir, Ernest Cline’s latest book Armada, and the venerable The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. Further down the list you get to such estimable books such as Jurassic Park, Starship Troopers, and no[…]
Unbound 2017
I know it’s been a few months, but I did manage to put together a slideshow for the Unbound 2017 event. Very special thanks are due to Kerri Lotven, my friend and colleague, who agreed to come out that day and shoot lots of great photography of my friends and me at the event. The experience was a very positive one for me. This was the first time I came out and presented my writing to the public, at a[…]
Book 3 Update
The third book of the Cortanis Trilogy, Soldier of Cortanis, is finally in completed first draft form. I finished the draft this past weekend, and this week I’m giving it an editing pass before handing it over to my editor for its first review. Hopefully Adria can find time to turn it around to me in a few weeks, after which time I’ll do another round of editing before sending it out to my beta readers. Assuming she doesn’t find[…]