Category: Newsletter

Picking a New Book to Write

Still deep in the querying trenches with SHROUD OF DAWN, it’s well past time I picked a new project to work on. I have several (well, more than several) ideas and half-finished zero drafts, and I tried to Commit to one of them arbitrarily; that didn’t work, so I tried to Commit to another one arbitrarily. That also didn’t work. So instead, I did what any rational person would do, and I became obsessed with the Anastasia Broadway Production for about three consecutive weeks. I listened to it on repeat, tried and failed to write fanfiction about it, and ultimately...

The Race to Be Imperfect

Working on SHROUD OF DAWN, I’m finding out that it’s criminally difficult to both put out a work that you’re proud of and to put it out in a timely manner. Some wise man once said that if 100% is perfection, then we should all strive for 80%; and they’re right, of course. But why not make it BETTER if it can be better? At the very least, I want the themes to be cohesive, and the lessons, as a bare minimum, not harmful. It turns out that that’s quite the line to walk for SHROUD OF DAWN, which is...

On Editing

Hey folks! Diving back into my scifi-western after taking some time away from it and it is a BREATH of fresh air!! It’s when you’re in the weeds of a draft that imposter syndrome really kicks in–and it’s here, returning home from vacation, that you realize how much you do love your home, and the people and things and memories that you’ve decorated it with. Anyway, here’s hoping that I finish this draft sooner than later. Cheers everyone! (I’m not British)