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…
She headed off in an entirely different direction, and shortly thereafter faded from the display altogether as she moved out of sonar range.
Current word count: 47,858
New words this session: 2,707
Percentage of novel completed: 47.8
The halfway point nears…
A mixture of Second Cup and Foggy Dew writing today, interspersed with several hours of working on the children’s biography of Janis Joplin I’m writing for Enslow Publishers. I’ve certainly gotten quite a bit of work done on this first day of my self-imposed two-day writers’ retreat. With the science fiction convention over, it’s not like there’s a lot else to do in an airport hotel in Richmond, B.C. than to write.
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