It takes money to publish books, and most of that money flows out the door before the book is released and sales begin, so my publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, is turning to Crowdfundr to help …
Shapers of Worlds Volume IV, the fourth anthology featuring authors who were guests on my podcast, The Worldshapers, is now available everywhere, including directly from Shadowpaw Press. Here’s a handy universal URL with links to …
My publishing company, Shadowpaw Press, has three great titles coming out in the first two months of 2024, all of them science fiction or fantasy. The first two, The Good Soldier by Nir Yaniv and …
Here’s another seven-sentence short story! I ran the workshop again at Ganbatte, an anime convention in Saskatoon. It went well, and here’s the one I created, again with the instructions, created by noted SF short-story …
Another When Words Collide, another Seven-Sentence Short Story workshop, as I once again led a group of writers through this plotting exercise devised by noted science fiction short-story writer James Van Pelt. As always, I …
Soulworm, my first published novel (originally released by Royal Fireworks Press in 1997), is now available in a brand-new, lightly revised edition from Shadowpaw Press Reprise. You can purchase it at one of these links …
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The first sentence I wrote today was…
Something seemed to click into place inside him, and the heat of his anger suddenly vanished.
Current word count: 2,724
New words today: 1,201*
Percentage of novel completed: 2.7
*Actually I wrote more, because the first thing I did today was delete about four paragraphs I had written yesterday that were getting me off on the wrong track. But that’s quibbling.**
**Don’t you love that word? “Quibbling.” It’s as much fun to say as it is to type. “Quibbling. Quibbling. Quibbling.” Like, wow, man.
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One of my favourite words is bourgeois. It’s so nice and round and soft in the mouth, especially when said with a French accent.