Last September, I attended the Dreamspinner Author Workshop in Orlando. It’s my haven conference—friends, authors, family coming together to talk about books and ideas, it’s seriously amazing. But the one thing that conference can’t do for me, is cure my Read more
It’s the worst part of this being-an-author gig. I don’t like promotion. Really don’t like it. The task of building any kind of following doesn’t come with an instruction pamphlet, and that makes it a rather scary proposition. Publishers don’t Read more
We all are products of our pasts. I’m a writer because I love reading and I love telling stories, but I’m also a writer because my Grandma Joyce was one. She wrote them in short form and in plays for Read more
Is it me or does it feel that my last post was only a few days ago? Okay, maybe it’s just me. April has been a super busy month for me, and with a looming deadline with my editor for Read more
I’m a bit of a geek as people who know me are very aware of. There’s a reason why Ben in The Sleepless City is a total comics geek and a huge Nightwing fan. We don’t have much in New Read more
Greetings After introducing myself and setting my context as a gay male writer born in the early 1960s in the last two posts, I’m now ready to move on to posting my take on the writing process and the craft. Read more