Outage Alert
This website is probably going to go down for part of this weekend in order to do some maintenance and updating. We’ll resume normal operations as soon as possible. Thanks. Rhonda
The Amazing thing about Google Alerts
You find things like this… A photo I’m apparently NOT prepared for, but doing one of the things I do best… Talk…
Words to Write By Edited By Robin Bayne
Coming in September: Words to Write By It will be available through MountainView Press and Fictionwise sometime in September. My mother and I are both in it. So how cool is that? It’s always cool when you place something with a publisher. It’s cooler to see it come into print. It’s bizarre when it’s something [...]
Writing “Industry” Rant Alert
I came very, very close to going off on a guy on Craigslist. I’m sick of what I’m seeing there, and this one blew my mind when I did the math… The guy want 14 articles on a specific topic – 650 – 750 words each (average that to 700). To be delivered NO LATER [...]
For the Cold War and EBook Fans Out There – Allan Cole
For those of you who are aficionados of Cold War history and/or just dig EBooks, have I got a book for you. My friend and awesome author, Allan Cole has released a non-fiction ebook, LUCKY IN CYPRUS: A True Story About A Boy, A Teacher, An Earthquake, Some Terrorists And The CIA…. You can read [...]
Associated Content Update
Well, I did it. I joined Associated Content. I just sent in my first article, so nothing’s up yet. I have weird and random non-fic in my file that hasn’t seen light of day. I’ll be posting that over the next week. It’s a step in the right direction, I believe. Any step is a [...]
In Need of Slogans and Taglines
I have the opportunity to get a whole bunch of gimme stickers made for conventions and the like. Since my first novel is just now starting to make it’s publisher rounds, and all my other material consists of short stories and articles, I’m asking the great internet minds what kind of saying, slogan, tagline would [...]
Pillsbury Crescent Roll Weirdness
In the last couple of months we’ve developed a problem with Pillsbury crescent rolls in our refrigerator — they pop their cans/tubes and become ruined. At first we thought it was because I dumped them in a crisper drawer or the meat keeper drawer. So I put our last batch just on the middle shelf [...]
Resources I Love
As a writer, I have to admit one of my favorite research resources isn’t Dictionary.Com or even Wikipedia — it’s LiveJournal. Why? Because you may have a question, or need to name/title something (especially something fictitious) and 9 times out of 10 you’ll get back answers. Lots of cool answers. It’s a giant, collective brain [...]
Good Writing Experiments Gone Wrong
I’m about to call my Fly Fusion pen experiment a “gone wrong”. I’m definitely not editing content here — it’s strictly mechanical. And it’s taking a LOT more time and effort than if I wrote it long hand and typed it in since I’m having to go line by line from notebook to computer to [...]
