Starlog

  • When your novel comes up short

    I just finished my latest novel. Yay!  Right? Umm, well not really. For the first time in my life … My novel came up short. I normally write huge, sweeping epic novels.  The last one I had to hack up into five novels.  The one before had three parts.  My mind just thinks “big”. This… Read more

  • Jon Gibbs’s Ten things I wish I knew before I was published #6: Belay that Opinion, Captain.

    Your writing is not as god or as bad as you think. If you think you are the best author out there, you probably aren’t. If you are sure you stink, you probably don’t. (At least maybe not as bad as you think) You are probably somewhere in-between.  Even published authors are not the greatest… Read more

  • I am Such a Stinking Idiot. I Swear!

    I’ve submitted two works in hopes of publication.  Last Winter Red was accepted, and will be published in December.  Yay!  But what was the other one? The first writing I ever submitted was early this year.  It was a 2,000 word short-story for a magazine. This magazine is very well-respected, and takes submissions until the… Read more

  • Write a Story with Me – Oh Yeah! – Part Seven

    Wow!  Vanessa Chapman totally rocked it this week.  Not only did she send us the next installment, she mapped out all the characters for us in a graph!  Go Vanessa! Hop on over the Vanessa’s to see what’s going on with our story. If you’d like to sign up, come on over.  There’s always room for more!… Read more

  • Road to Publication #12: My Author page – Somewhere other than HERE!

    Wow.  Pinch me.  Every little step of this process that happens “in the public eye” that propels me closer to publication just makes me tingle.  Honestly, it does. I feel like a little girl playing dress up. You know how you lay in bed and dream at night of pretty photos of you, and interviews,… Read more

  • Sentence Sunday – Oracle by J.C. Martin

    Here are Six Sentences from the novel I am currently reading. This is from the first chapter. Vincent is a Magician.  He’s just met up with a serial killer.  Oh oh! Blubbering pitifully, Vincent climbed the wooden steps on shaky legs. He hesitated at the top, staring down over the threshold of the acrylic tank… Read more