Category Archives: Writing

Second Look: The Beacons I See

With this novel I return to the light fantasy elements of my first few works of fictions. The Beacons I See is a novel of many firsts/onlys as of this writing. To begin with, it is the only work of fiction that came to me as the result of a dream. Partially. I’d fallen asleep …

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Second Look: Order! Ten Stories, Ten Very Different Meetings

From my top selling murder mystery title last week, to my little thought of short story collection. This week’s second look focuses on Order! Ten Stories, Ten Very Different Meetings. I smile when I think of this short volume. Not merely because it was a [particular delight to write, though that is of course part …

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Second Look: Murder. Theatre. Solitaire.

My second novel was not supposed to be either my second, or a (public) novel. I had begun my so called sophomore effort more than once, rewritten it, changed ideas. It felt like an idea I could work with at first, but as year two passed and I still had not gotten any momentum for …

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Looking Back at My Oeuvre

Without having every work I have written since high school in front of my to prove this beyond a shadow of a doubt, I am going to contend the title of this post as only the second time I have made use of the word “oeuvre” lifetime. Certainly feels that way. It just means “body …

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Seek Out Unknown Authors (Like Me)

Discoverability is an enormous factor in one hopes of even modest success as a writer, especially, (but not exclusively) for the indie writer such as myself. We hear it all the time: Your stuff must stand out among literally millions of other options out there. Well, yes and no. If the reader (or consumer) is …

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