The long wait is almost over. Books 2 and 3 in the Fortunes of the Star Sloth series will be on their way soon. I’ve done my last edit of both. Now we’re waiting on proofreading and final covers. Expect more adventures with Sebastian and Jocko…all tied together with sarcasm and a healthy dose of…
Category: WRITING
Update on Crow’s Gambit
Greetings Supporters of Crow’s Gambit, There are some big news items to discuss with you. As you know, Crow’s Gambit was one of the last books accepted into the Quill Imprint of Inkshares for publishing. The book has been in the editing queue with a month or two remaining until the process would start. However,…
Think the FBI checks our searches?
It’s a typical problem for writers. You need to do research, but if you use Google how does that affect the A.I. overlord’s view of you? For instance, in the last two days I’ve done searches for plastic explosives, cyanide production and poisoning, and hemp growing and CBD. I’m thinking of writing a story about…
20 Books Vegas comes to an end and I get philosophical
In future posts I’m sure I’ll mention some of the other things I learned during the 20 Books Vegas 2019 conference. However, as the conference closes I want to wane philosophical for a minute. This website (26milesofbooks) is devoted to my three R’s; reading, writing, and running. It was originally created during a fundraiser for…
Lessons from Dean Wesley Smith
For today’s post I’m going to share some of the things I took away from the 20 Books Vegas 2019 conference today. One of the speakers was Dean Wesley Smith, icon of the industry and writer of novels spanning Star Trek, Men in Black, and Spider Man. Out of the eight things he mentioned, several…
“This conference is a marathon.”
I attended the Newcomer Orientation for 20Books Vegas 2019 tonight. The speaker was Terry Mixon, author and co-host of the Dead Robot’s Society Podcast. This was very appropriate, since Dead Robot’s was one of the first writing podcasts I started listening to. In fact, I found out about 20 Books to 50k through the podcast…