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I have good news and bad news regarding progress writing The Sword of Sirius Book 3: Firebreak. I’ll give you a hint: it’s almost done! That’s the good news. The bad news? About that… Also, I think I’ve selected what series I want to write next. The problem is that I’m not sure how to […]

Two weeks ago, I had hoped to test my theory that adding an extra day to my weekly writing schedule would yield a higher word count. Unfortunately, last week, a Real Life Family Event (RLFE) attacked and blocked me (with an assist from a major technical failure). How’d things fare this week? If I got […]

Remember last week how I said I was going to try starting to write on Mondays? About that — can you guess which day a piece of my critical equipment decided to fail? Also, I conducted an analysis of read-through rates on Evolution’s Hand. That gave me good news and bad news. But before we […]

I can be slow on the uptake sometimes (and if you just resisted the urge to respond “Sometimes?” and repressed it, thank you!). I’d been sitting on a way to improve my output by about 15-20% without a major change to my schedule. Well, I suppose realizing it comes under the heading “better late than […]

It had to happen eventually — a promo I had scheduled collapsed. And, yeah, it was my fault! How’d I screw that one up? I have an excuse. It’s just not a great one. Also, while writing one of Owen Payne’s chapters, I realized that I had no idea what I was talking about — […]