Category: Status Updates
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Aftermath Completed
I’m just back from an amazing long weekend in Southern California, visiting with friends while taking part in what will be the last Disneyland Half Marathon weekend for a bit; with all of the upcoming park construction, runDisney is pausing events in Anaheim, though they will still take place out in Orlando. As much as…
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New Year, New Books
Not to give out too many of my secrets here, but I usually try to write for my website fairly early in the week on what I like to call “Marketing Monday.” As a (very) small independent author, I wear many hats when it comes to getting the word out about my novels; from crafting…
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Novembers with Sean
It’s kind of ingrained into me now to be up to my eyeballs in writing during the month of November. While NaNoWriMo may no longer exist, the patterns I developed when it was in full swing continue to this day, though I have to admit, the accountability the little word counter their website offered during…
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Coasted
At the risk of paraphrasing a classic song from the late 1970s, I’m back in Arizona after a whirlwind long weekend running through various parks at Walt Disney World. I’m still a bit tired – it will take a few more days to recover from putting that many miles on my body – but the afterglow of…
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Finishing Touches and What’s To Come
I spent part of this past weekend putting the finishing touches on Belie, due out in a few weeks. Most of this effort was spent tweaking the cover art and then scanning the manuscript for any last-minute, egregious errors that might come back to haunt me later in the series. I have long lived in fear of accidentally…
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New Normal
Sean must face what his life has become – and the choices he has made to get there.
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On Deities and Vacations
The back half of the summer months tend to be when I take the lion’s share of my vacation time; with school out and the students away, it tends to be the quietest time to slip out from behind my desk and indulge in a tiny bit of self-care. Giving myself permission to take time off…
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Summer Planning
Looking ahead to what I’ll be working in this summer.
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Light at the End of the Tunnel
Just a few thousand words to go before my latest Vasily Korsokovach novel is finished.
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Halfway Done, or Half Left To Go?
There are two ways to think of this.