Just a quick note that my next story – Hidden – will be up on Every Day Fiction on September 16th, that’s Sunday.
In Defense of eBook Pricing
This is the latest in a series of Meaty Monday posts – longer posts where I ramble on about writing related topics. You can find the first Meaty Monday post here. Authors are almost legally … Read More
We Have a Winner – Aces
Once again proving the value of Heinlein’s Fifth Rule, August 15th saw the arrival of my fourth acceptance of the year. My 3776 word story, Aces, has been accepted by Sci-Fi … Read More
We Have a Winner – She Could be the One
This week has been good for acceptances. I received an email yesterday telling me that my short story She Could be the One has been accepted for I’ll Never Go Away … Read More
We Have a Winner – Hidden
I arrived home from a run last night to find an acceptance in my inbox. Every Day Fiction will be publishing my story – Hidden. Hidden is a pretty old story – … Read More
Out Now – On the Finding of the Body
My Who Killed Amanda Palmer? inspired piece, On the Finding of the Body is now up on Brown God. I call it a “piece” rather than a story because it’s more poem … Read More
Too Much Fun with Writing
The new draft of The Ghost Smuggler that I’m writing at the moment is definitely a very different beast – hopefully a better beast. There’s the switch from third person to … Read More
…Previously on Solitary Mindset
My last post ended with a bit of a cliffhanger. I was 17,720 words into the rewrite of The Ghost Smuggler and had just convinced myself it was all a waste of … Read More
Deep Fried Twinkies
I ate deep fried Twinkies last week. Three of them. I wish I could blame alcohol for my momentary lapse of common sense but unfortunately I was alcohol free at … Read More
Write-a-Thon Day One
It’s day one of the Clarion Write-a-Thon today and the day of our latest half-marathon – the Scotiabank Vancouver Half Marathon. I got a new personal best of 2:00:18 which … Read More