Time for a new weekly writer’s roundup of my works-in-progress and those ready to read! In the ready to read department, the third and final part of Out to Pasture is up on my blog. I also setup a special story page for it where you can read the whole thing without the inconvenience of... Continue Reading →
WIP-it Wednesday: April 22, 2015
Time for my weekly writer’s roundup of works-in-progress and works ready to read! First-up, the second part of short story Out to Pasture is up on Aethereal Engines. Huzzah! The last part will be posted Saturday morning if it leaves you wanting more (and I hope it does). Last week I got started on chapter... Continue Reading →
Meet Moannette: My Original Character Illustrated by David Tenorio!
This is so cool! Artist David Tenorio did this fantastic illustration, pro bono, of my original character Moannette! You can see more of David's amazing work on his website davidtenorio.com! Moannette is a villain who figures prominently in several of the Burusian Tales that I am currently writing, including my upcoming story Out to Pasture.... Continue Reading →
5 Cool Blogs and 25 Random Things about Me
So this morning Sessela, a reader and fellow blogger on her site anthropomagic.com, nominated Aethereal Engines for the “Creative Blogger Award”. I am touched and flattered that she would take the time to say that she enjoys reading my stuff and that it inspires her to keep writing and blogging. That was a great way... Continue Reading →
No Joke! New Fiction and Updates!
New story! I wrote a 400 word flash fiction for a writers challenge on Reddit called Method One, Standard that I posted up on Aethereal Engines over the weekend. The challenge was to write a fantasy story of four hundred words or less in which luck or randomness as a major theme, component, or idea.... Continue Reading →
The 777 Writing Challenge
Fellow WordPress blogger and author or Akarnae (check it out!) Lynette Noni shared the following challenge on her blog: The 777 challenge requires you go to Page 7 of your work-in-progress, scroll down to Line 7 and share the next 7 lines in a blog post. Once you have done this, you can tag 7... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log: Springing into Editing!
It’s been a good week! I finished my first major round of editing with Out to Pasture on Saturday and was happy with the additions and changes I had made. Then I sent off the new draft to the folks who were kind enough to lend their eyes and time to critique it, just to... Continue Reading →
Book Cover Concepts Featuring “A Contract in Azure and Indigo”!
My wife made these two wonderful mock up, wrap-around dust jacket covers for my story, A Contract in Azure and Indigo, just as if it was a hardcover novel! I think they are wonderful! She created them the other day as an example of her design work and as part of her continuing quest to... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log: February Rundown
It’s been a very snowy February in my region of the world, with this month featuring at least two storms a week with significant snowfall… and two blizzards! We’ve already passed twice the amount of snow that is normal for a typical winter, and we’re not done yet. January-February is always the roughest part of... Continue Reading →
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