Category: Description
Oh, the Horror! It is Horror!
Writing for me is a very intimate process. My stories well up first as images to form a vision. Sometimes they are intensely detailed and other times mere wisps of idea. My challenge is to translate the still fresh vision into words that can, hopefully, accurately portray it. This is…
Five Minutes To Midnight
Last week the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced that the dreaded Doomsday Clock was moved to a minute closer to midnight. For reasons you can read here, the Doomsday Clock now stands at five minutes to midnight. Midnight being defined as the end to everything. We have been closer of…
What Stories Influence You?
Whether you’re a writer or a reader, what you read becomes an element of the psychological sum of your parts. Consciously or subconsciously all the words, images, and emotions associated with what you read become part of you. They find a niche somewhere inside your mind and wait there, quietly…
A Quick Update
Latest Submissions: I just submitted a short-story for the October issue of eFiction Magazine. The title of the piece is “Christmas”, for lack of a better name and for no other reason than it takes place at Christmas. If it gets accepted, I look forward to your opinions about the…
Revising the Product Description
Thanks to my friends at eFiction Magazine’s Book Marketing Group, I’ve transformed my long, unfocused product description into a more dynamic pitch for my eBook, Any Tomorrow: The Calling. Advice from eFiction editor Doug Lance and group member Richard Sutton helped me rebuild my product description following some simple general…
Physics and Religion
Fiction is great. Fiction is wonderful. I love fiction, especially an edgy mix of horror, fantasy, and psychological tension. Nothing to my mind can beat it. However, no matter how wild the fiction is, there will be a point of tangency between the fictional world and reality. In order to…
A Matter of Perspective
If you go to Amazon.com and search for books with keyword of “horror”, you’ll get 56,575 results, but only 9,202 are Kindle Editions. If you search for books with the keyword “speculative fiction”, only 745 results are returned, but only 320 are Kindle Editions. If you search for a book…
I Really Need a Checklist
You know, sometimes the most obvious things are the easiest to miss. Both Kindle and Smashwords provide the option to post a detailed description and keywords (tags) to help potential buyers discover your eBook. In the rush to get the eBook text loaded, it’s easy to miss those couple of…
