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 →
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 →
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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