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 →
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 →
New Fiction: “The Showroom” is up on Aethereal Engines!
Calliope walked past the waiting room of the Volkswagen dealership and immediately felt the eyes of the other customers on her. She ignored them and grabbed a K cup of green tea for the Keurig. With only a handful of exers living in Maine, she rightfully assumed that they had never seen anyone like her... Continue Reading →
Engineer’s Log: New Fiction on Friday!
I’ll be posting a thousand word short story up on Aethereal Engines Friday called The Showroom. It was created for a writer’s challenge in January, but the main character and concepts have been with me for at least a couple of years... And about 30,000 words of background and notes. The Showroom takes place in... Continue Reading →
Keeping the Darkness at Bay
I’ve been working on fiction as much as I can given the brutal weather in my corner of the United States. I’m used to snow and cold, but over the last two weeks we have had a storm an average of every other day… my house currently looks like the Rebel Base on Hoth. Then... Continue Reading →
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