Writing
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There’s nothing quite like getting to thank your heroes who inspire you. For me, one of those people is Seamus Egan. Last night I attended the 20th anniversary concert by my favorite all-time band Solas at the One World Theater in Austin, and I was able to finally share with Seamus how much his music has meant to me.
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Tonight I attended a writing meetup at the Austin Zen Center. After a brief meditation we all wrote for 25 minutes on a prompt. One of the participants unwrapped a small metal sculpture. It was an emaciated figure of man (in the style of the sculptor Giacometti as illustrated here), standing with a rat’s nest of wires […]
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A public reading! Oh my! On January 23, from 3-5pm at Malvern Books in Austin, TX, I’ll be one of three authors giving a public reading of my novel By Moonrise. Joining me are Matt Herron, author of the sci-fi thriller The Auriga Project and Kate Baray, author of several urban fantasy novels including the Lost […]
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I finally got around to watching The Imitation Game, thinking it might inspire me for one of my projects. Not only did it give me some new ideas for my fiction, it reminded me how important it is to believe in ourselves and be the best we can be. Faced with the tragedy of Alan Turing’s […]
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I write 10,000 meaningful words every day. I just read Honoree Corder’s Prosperity for Writers and it fired me up to make some new affirmations and goals for 2016 so that I can become a prosperous writer. Writing 10,000 words a day is just one of them.
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My first novel, By Moonrise, is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com. Wow, did I really write those words? I need to stop and pinch myself. I can’t really believe this is happening to me.
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My book (By Moonrise) is done. The cover is done. All that’s left is a final review of the galleys (the pages as laid out for printing), writing up the acknowledgments, and the back of the cover book blurb. The blurb. The ever-so-important summary that is meant to tease and inspire, describing just enough that it piques a buyer’s interest. It’s […]
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Check out my latest post on Medium (for a change of pace): “How I Rewired My Brain & Made My Writing Career Possible“