Did you roll your eyes at that one? It’s okay if you did, because sometimes, I roll my eyes at that, too. There’s too much hard work, mental sweat and sheer discipline involved in getting a book written for it to ever just ‘fall out’ of a writer, yet there are an awful lot of […]
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I’ve received emails from readers who trip over the numbering system in my series. I admit that if you’ve never seen that sort of series numbering before — I call it digital numbering — it can look a little strange, but there are very good reasons for numbering the series the way I do,
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Fellow author Terry Mixon just bought out the first book in a brand new military SF series so I thought I’d give you a heads up. They thought they could force her to conform. They were wrong. Inside a dystopian school in the Singularity, the twelve-year-old girl known as One Twenty-Four struggles to survive. Failure
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Covers are amazing things. They give a book substance and make it feel real. For example, even though you’ve seen the title of book 3 in the Imperial Hammer series written in the blurb all the way back when the first book came out, until now it’s just been a title. But now there’s a
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Minimize your therbligs until it becomes automatic; this doubles your effective lifetime–and thereby gives time to enjoy butterflies and kittens and rainbows. Robert A. Heinlein – The Notebooks of Lazarus Long _____________________________ This Heinlein quote has become a personal mission of mine. I first read Time Enough for Love (the book from which nearly all
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We waited very patiently for the end of the first season of Star Trek Discovery. (On Crave TV for Canadians.) Not because we thought it would be so good we’d want to gobble the whole season in one huge binge session, but because it’s a habit we’ve built over the years. So glad we did
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