Starlog

  • Road to Publication #10: Publisher responds to my second round of “Re-edits”

    Yay!  My second round or re-edits were accepted.  Next stop?  Copy editing. I admit, I am a little nervous that cutting and pasting were done and I didn’t see the final product before it went to copy-editing.  I’m worried about formatting, punctuation, etc. before it gets there. What I need to do is stop worrying… Read more

  • It’s Six Sentence Sunday! 7-29-12 #SixSunday

    It’s Six Sentence Sunday!  If you’d like to hop on board this little blog hop, or just look up more great six-sentence excerpts, visit SixSentenceSunday.com Today I am featuring six from my own work, tentatively titled “Connect the Dots”.  I am working on revising this for submission to an anthology in the next few weeks.… Read more

  • Scoping out locations for your novel #1

    First of all, if you’ve noticed that I haven’t responded to comments since Thursday, it’s because I am on a writer’s retreat.  Yay!  Another one?  Yeah, I am giving it a go. I have higher hopes for this one, and I am not up against a super-steep deadline, so I’m not in a panic about… Read more

  • Jon Gibbs’s Ten things I wish I knew before I was published #3: Congratulations! You stink!

    Do you know how bad you stink? If not, read “How to Write a Damn Good Novel by James N. Frey.  Jon Gibbs is at least the tenth person who has mentioned this book.  I need to get off my butt and get a copy. Here’s what Jon had to say, taking into account what… Read more

  • EEEE Gads! Why the heck did I read a Western? A Review of Mended Hearts by Olivia Devereaux

    Yeah, so, I just read this little Western story.  In general, other than non-fiction as a whole, the lump sum of everything Western (as in America’s traditional “Old West”) is at the bottom of the barrel of stuff I’d want to read… and I almost never scrape the bottom of the barrel.  So why the… Read more

  • Flash Fiction Friday on Wednesday – Be careful what you wish for

    This is the character study I did for my character “Jessica” in my new WIP, Fire in the Woods.  I wrote this just to get a “feel” for her before I got started with the story. The story ended up going in another direction, but this was the basis/starting point of her character. (As well… Read more