I had the opportunity to meet Jim a few years ago at a reading in a pub. I bought a copy of his collection, After Work, which he signed to “the American who looks like a Paddy” (guilty – I’ve practically the map of Ireland painted on my face). Normally I quote Yeats this day, but… Read More A St. Patrick’s Day Poem by Jim Brennan
Because I actually go so far as to purchase HBONow so I can watch Game of Thrones, because A Song of Ice and Fire is the only fantasy series I’ve gotten my wife to read, because I’m a fan, I occasionally check Wikipedia to see if there’s any rumor of Winds of Winter, the long delayed… Read More Winter is Leaving – A Lament on the Unfinished State of Game of Thrones
This post is worth reading in full: Viral. Defined as a piece of information that is circulated rapidly and widely from one Internet user to another. Usually it’s a video of a pet doing something silly. Usually. I have been chasing this for almost six years now. Dreaming about one of my posts going viral.… Read More Viruses are Bad Things. Why is “Going Viral” Good?
Why I might: On the DL, I’ve been sketching pieces of verse. I’ve got notebooks full of them. I’ve even laid them out in Scrivener. In the last year I’ve done maybe ten or twelve. There’s enough for a short paperback volume, anyway. They’re always saying, get the content out. It would be nice if… Read More Another Creation in Embryo…
I’ve had The Writer on my to-read list for some time. Maybe I should get on that. Fourteen years of writing. Six years of Amazon releases. A lot of time and effort. Experimenting with style, technique, and storylines. This is what this e-book bundle is all about. An e-book bundle containing my five major releases.… Read More Christian Mihai has an e-Book Bundle.
The good news is, I didn’t pay for it. Here’s a mostly-fun article by Dwight Garner, about the joy of having enemies: This is a column, however, about that old-fashioned word—enemies. Today we more often speak of “rivals” or “competitors.” Richard Nixon would have been vastly duller had he compiled a rivals list instead of an… Read More I Picked Up a Copy of Esquire and Now I Regret It.
I will be posting something within the next few days about my current publishing plans. Right now I’m dealing with some manner of gastrointestinal distress. The long and short of it, 2018 is going to be a big year.
So Party at the Last Tomorrow has had its moment. I got some good feedback on it, and I’m pleased that it picked up as much interest as it did. A Kindle Countdown deal suggested to me that I’m pricing these novellas too high. I’ve already dropped the price on The Devil Left Him to $3.99, I may… Read More An Update, Brief and Modest
Good post at The Green Study: My writing tip #234: Don’t read books on writing while trying to write a novel. First of all, it usually sheds bad light on whatever you are writing and secondly, it can make you overly ambitious. I agree. What you need when you’re working on something is Inspiration. It… Read More If You Want to Write a Story, Write a Story…
As I’ve announced before, a good bit of Last Tomorrow was written on the fly. Like the US Navy in WWII, I simply went around difficulties. That’s fun, but at some point, you have to force those little hidden Japanese jungle plot holes (I’m getting all the elasticity this metaphor has, thank you very much) to… Read More The Downside of Pantsing
Content Blues 