Starlog

  • Hey! I was a Semi Finalist in that Pitch and First 250 Words Contest!

    This was pretty cool! On July 19th I entered a contest.  Click here to see the blog post.  I didn’t really have high hopes.  It was my fist time out there. On July 21st, I blogged about how good some Read more

  • Yes! We will publish your novel… If…

     You toil for years over your story.  It’s very intricate.  It’s brilliant (I can say this because it’s not mine.  This just happened to a friend of mine Friday) Your story is a three-part series. Every facet of book one is Read more

  • Here’s another pitch contest!

    There’s another pitch contests going on.  So, I figure, why not? This one is over at Beyond Words and the prize is a full manuscript read and critique by agent Victoria Marini.  Not too shabby.  So, of course I am Read more

  • Technology is catching up to Science Fiction

    Funny, when I started writing my novel a few years ago I came up with this neat little innovation…  these kids on my futuristic planet don’t carry books around to school, they have Datapads.  Imagine my surprise when the iPad Read more

  • Stinking words you hate

        Dictionary.com had a spotlight on their home page yesterday to a quiz called “12 of the cruelest confusing words–  The English language can be cruel, can’t it?” Everyone has those “stinking words” that they just cannot get right.  Read more

  • Just how good are YOUR first 250 words?

      This past week, I joined a very simple writing contest.  Nothing flashy… just a pitch and the first 250 words of my manuscript.  Now, no matter how this turns out, I did get something out of the experience…  #1:  Read more