Read Any Tomorrow: The Calling for FREE!

The entire Any Tomorrow Trilogy is now available so I’m celebrating by offering Any Tomorrow: The Calling as a free download until March 1st.  If you’re not familiar with the Any Tomorrow series, here’s the lowdown on Any Tomorrow: The Calling: Fraleigh, a former imagery intelligence analyst, artfully crafts a…

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Mourning the OED

It has finally happened.  The last great bastion of the English language has sequestered itself into elitism.  The Holy OED, the Oxford English Dictionary on-line, is now available only by paid subscription.  What was the ideal reference for writers has lowered itself into the abyss of filthy lucre and restricted…

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Working through Writer’s Block

Writer’s block.  We all get it.  Writer’s groups on-line are full of posts seeking the magic cure. There is only one cure for writer’s block ― to write.  Wow, that seems counterintuitive.  How can I write if I’m blocked?  How about this… Let’s say you’re writing a novel and you…

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The Location Worksheet

In an earlier post I discussed the Character Worksheet I used to keep track of all the characters mentioned in my Any Tomorrow Trilogy.  The worksheet simply lists the name and a basic description of each character.  This tool is very handy to make sure names aren’t too similar or…

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The Story Unfolds

cjsand asked for it, so here it is.  A teaser, a little hint about the storyline of the Any Tomorrow trilogy. I guess I should have provided this before, but up until very recently I wasn’t completely sure what form the novel would take, or even if it would be…

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Speculative Fiction

I am glad to say that I have finally finished editing for content.  I think I’ve caught as many dropped words, extra spaces, misused words, and problems with specialized vocabulary that I reasonably expect to.  I have also begun editing for format using the Simplified Guide to Building a Kindle…

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