Hit 40,000 words on Wolfbreed yesterday. I have noticed one thing, writing this fast, I’ve managed to overshoot some creative decisions. I’ve decided that I want to change the setting. I have a more or less generic fantasy background right now, but a good ways in it came to me Read more…
Well, yesterday I hit 20,000 words on Wolfbreed, my extracurricular novel twice removed. I ran the first 9000 words or so past the Hamsters this weekend, and while there’s stuff that needs work I did get some affirmation that it doesn’t suck. This is good, as when I tap into Read more…
You might notice a brand new counter in the sidebar. No, I didn’t change the title of something, I just had the experience (last Friday in fact) of my muse coming round, slapping me on the back of the head and screaming in my ear; “NO! You’re going to write Read more…
Well things have gone completely insane at the day job, rendering the posting here rather sparse. My department has lost two employees (really three, but the one was essentially a volunteer), and guess who’s taking up the slack? So the writing and the blog have suffered (60-70 hour weeks will Read more…
Yay! I just got my author copies of Blood & Rust: Two Novels of the Cleveland Undead, DAW’s omnibus reprint of Raven and The Flesh, the Blood, and the Fire, my two vampire novels. (Actually I got 16 of 40 copies, at 640 pages the book is kind of fat Read more…
Been too busy for the Blog lately, so we’re going the cheap and easy route with a cute cat picture. This is Mu.
This is from a friend of mine in college radio. While I’m all for IP rights, it irks me when someone steps between me and my rights just to enrich themselves. Not to mention the Kafkaesqe red tape is truly frightening: WCSB 89.3 FM in Cleveland and other college radio Read more…
The Evil One My wife was nagging me that I don’t put enough of my personal life on my blog, and that I don’t have enough pictures. So here’s the obligatory pet pictures for 1/2 the non-human portion of the household. The evil one is Panzer, a black cat with Read more…
I was just at the CWRU SF Marathon (an annual event here in Cleveland, if you’re in the area, consider going, it’s like a live version of MST3K) and a couple of recent examples of cinematic SF cheese made me wonder exactly what might be wrong with some modern SF. Read more…
And actually moderating comments. Sorry about that 🙁 I just recently had a number of issues that took me away from my Blog, the prime one of which being a car accident back in October. I’m fine, but the Ford F150 I was driving was totaled— apparently, the frame was Read more…