2013 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards First Round
“A Girl Called Badger” made it past the first round of competitors in Amazon’s 2013 Breakthrough Novel Award, Science Fiction category. Fingers crossed that the book makes it further. 2013 […]
Tag Archives: writing
My Fan-nie Valentine
Some of you who know me or work in small-claims court have raised concerns about the novel such as “You can’t be serious,” “People pay money for this?” and “If […]
You Know It Is Problem
It is problem when: 1. you’re writing fan mail to yourself because the only people who bought your 1000-page Cuban/high fantasy mashup “Lord of the Mambo Kings” were your mom […]
The Vorpal Stick of Justice
When you grow up with the same people (whether family, friends, or wards of the state) there’s a shared set of experiences. But even with “sharing” similar experiences and YouTube […]
Post-Virus Struggle To Survive Girl
I go down to coffee shop because book is out. Brother work in coffee shop––so what? My family not have cigar factory and own car and use paper money like […]
And Lo, The Book
And so, the book has come forth. But hark, cast thine eyes upon yonder slightly tubby and balding gentleman, with fists full of rubles, gold, and gems beautiful like diamonds […]
GIGO The Voyager
You know that old saw, “garbage in, garbage out”? I thought for years that was just a phrase about garbage, and now I’ve been told it applies to the body. […]
Blog The Destroyer
I spent a fistful of hours last night writing an article on how to write better (and more better), then I thought to myself, “This is rubbish. Drivel. Putrefying cack.” So […]
Self-Defense For The Self-Published
You may not be mobbed for autographs while buying goat-milk ice cream at Whole Foods, but the self-published author still needs a plan of self-defense. Anger and brute strength will […]
Steves Are Boring
I was going to post the first pages of chapter one but I spilled Diet A&W on it and the cat got scared and threw up. In the FAX machine […]
The Amish Spaceman 