Excerpt from Jake’s Last Mission
(This is not my best cover, but it was the best I could do on the budget I had at the time. I spent a ridiculous amount of time finding the right font to make it look as good as possible, anyway. And the print book does look pretty good, I have to admit.) This one […]
Great First Lines
This is another thing from that list of blogposts that wasn’t totally stupid. “Make a list of great first lines from books,” it said. So, here is a list of five first lines that I really like, in no special order: All children, except one, grow up. — Peter Pan by J. M. Barrie It is given […]
This is another post that supposed to help me gain followers or something
The suggestion for what to blog about is “Write an article highlighting one of your Pinterest boards and explain how and why you use it”. I do, in fact, have a Pinterest account. I even have boards for a couple of my books. So, here, have a look at my board for the cleverly titled Jake’s […]
The Creative Process
Clean cut looking ship’s captain, looking at Jake critically: How old are you, son? Standard years, not local. Jake, fourteen Earth years old, slightly shaggy shoulder length red hair: Seven, give or take a bit. First dude, looking a bit disappointed and shaking his head: I’m sorry, but I can’t take you on. You’re . […]
An Experiment’s Results and an Announcement
Several months ago, I made all my works free everywhere I could as a special offer. I left them free in a couple, without advertising this, since then. I have sold exactly zero copies of anything for money since then. I have gotten several downloads of each title in the places where they were free. […]
Long term writing updates
I was looking through some old blogposts, on a different site so don’t go looking for them here, that were writing related updates. I thought it could be amusing/interesting to revisit these old updates and see what became of these stories. And then I decided to do the same to one from here from last […]
Annoying Dilemma
I’ve got a problem with Jake’s Last Mission, and I don’t know what to do about it. You see, between writing it and giving it it’s final editing pass for publication, I discovered I write much better in first person. I toyed with the idea of converting it to first person, but that would’ve meant delaying […]