To be a good writer, you have to be a reader. That’s what you hear, right?  So you say to your writer self, “You need to read more books.”  Then you set reading goals.  It suddenly becomes work (ugh). How many books did you plan to read this year?  Did you reach your goal?  I […]

I couldn’t agree more with this post. If there is one maxim that haunts the life of every writer, it is this one. You should write everyday. The saying has been around since – well, not since the dinosaurs roamed the earth, but it has been around for a while. Since it’s been around for […]

I love writing but not so much marketing.  Up until recently, all my marketing efforts had been at the local level:  Book signings, talking to local bookstores, talking with local groups.  As a result, I have sold more paperback books than e-books.  And while I’ve had an author website for a while, It was stagnant […]

And NaNoWriMo ends with the Charlotte Creeping Crud.  Why am I not surprised?  I spent the last three days of November trying to fight off this latest bit of nastiness floating around Charlotte.  I am tempted to blame my lack of 50,000 words on this, but it would be a convenient excuse.  To be honest, I […]

I was always a math and science kinda guy in school.  Math made sense and science was logical.  If you went back and looked at my high school yearbook, probably half the inscriptions read something like:  “Thanks for helping me get through chemistry.”  People wanted to sit next to me in those classes, but no […]

Who doesn’t like a free book?  Just head on over to Goodreads and you can enter my giveaway for a signed copy of Stenson Blues: Kingdom of Haven Book 2. This is phase 2 of my book giveaways to celebrate the January release of book 3: The Eastern Factor. If you don’t like to start […]

When I was a young man (and quite a bit more antisocial than I am now) I thought it would be cool to be one of those hermits living on a mountain top.  You know, meditating and contemplating the meaning of the universe with no one around to bother you.  It sounded kinda cool, but […]

So I’m sitting up on Sugar Mountain looking for inspiration.  The wife and I came up for the weekend, and I stayed for the rest of the week to try to finish the draft of my latest novel. We had a good time traipsing about over the weekend.  The highlight was hiking to the overlook […]

Romance seems to be everywhere nowadays.  There’s fantasy romance, historical romance, even western romance—I think (Hey Tex, pass the biscuits).  I don’t really care to read a lot of erotic stuff, but I believe every story needs a little romance.  Even a gritty mercenary story like The Order of the Wolf has some romance. Actually, […]

It’s that time again.  National Novel Writing Month is upon us.  I will be participating this year.  I’ll be working on a partially complete novel that I need to finish – The Queen’s Man.  It currently sits at around 30,000 words, so if I hit the 50,000 mark for NaNoWriMo it’ll get me to a […]