We're another episode closer to the finale of Game of Thrones and I'm following up last week's post about ending a story from a writer's perspective. Today, as I'm writing the final pages in my sequel to Headless, I am working to make it a great ending for my readers. There's nothing better than setting …
Category: Journal
Okay… Here’s an Update
What am I doing? In my journal here, I've started posting Japan-related things that tie-in to my novels, thinking that might interest my readers. But it was nearly crickets on my UFO catcher post last week! Maybe I took a wrong turn. So this week I'm just going to give a quick update on what's …
Fish for Breakfast
Image by murakumo28 on Pixabay When I lived with a family in Yokohama back in 2009, we had fish for breakfast every day. While this is an odd concept for most Americans, and, I expect, most Westerners in general, it’s pretty normal in Japan. Being an island nation, fish is definitely a staple protein. The …
The Snake Woman
Artwork by Matthew Meyer, yokai.com In light of my recent article at Science Fantasy Hub, I thought I would write a bit more about one of the Japanese monsters I use in my book Headless. In Headless, there are three specific monsters that are featured. One of them is from Japanese mythology and the other …
Invisibility Potion
Do you ever feel like someone slipped an invisibility potion into your morning cereal? I think it's happened to me this week. Texts have gone ignored, emails unanswered, phone calls unreturned. Maybe it's more like an unimportance potion, where anything coming from you just doesn't feel relevant. An irrelevancy potion. Every artist's deepest fear. The …
Books I Read in 2017
[Photo by Savannah Walters on Unsplash] I love reading. It is such a part of who I am that it seems silly to even mention it. But apparently there are a lot of people out there who don't. That always surprises me, though at this point in life, it probably shouldn't. I read a fair amount in 2017, and …
October Update
Photo by Andrea Boldizsar on Unsplash. I haven’t written much about the sequel to Headless here. In fact, I think the only thing I’ve mentioned is that I am writing one. I actually haven’t told ANYONE what it’s about yet. Not even my wife. Not even my brother. Both of whom I share just about everything with. I …
Now
Photo by Steve Halama on Unsplash Just a quick update today. I have added a Now page to my site. This is a simple page where I can put what I'm working on and thinking about right now. It also has my current reading list. The idea is Derek Siver's and he has a site dedicated to it …
How to Review a Book on Amazon
OR How to Not Be a Moron Photo by Brad C. Wilcox It still baffles me how utterly clueless people are sometimes. I was just looking at a book on Amazon, and there was a one-star review that said, “I thought I was ordering a paperback.” That’s all it said. Because this person was too …
What Was I Thinking?
or How to Put Your WordPress Blog into Your Squarespace Site. Photo by Andrew Furlan on Unsplash So…I know it may be hard to believe (not) but I sometimes do really stupid things that make life much harder than it should be. I started my Squarespace site because of the release of my first book, and I wanted …
