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…
After several minutes of cleansing her mouth and hair with snow, she regained her composure enough go back under the blue canopy and look up at the surviving passenger of the…flying device.
Words today: 3,594
Total words: 14,854
A mixture of brand-new and once-rewritten material today. I spent several hours at it, aided by the fact that there was a power outage in our neighborhood that began at 10 a.m. and lasted into the afternoon sometime. I went elsewhere, and being cut off from the Internet entirely, was quite productive.
Not sure how much I’ll get done tomorrow, though. I’ve got to get my science column out and also have some tax stuff to work on. Hopefully I’ll manage at least a short session.
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