It’s Sunday, the last day of January, and I’ve missed my every-five-day posting deadline. By one day. Please forgive this since I thought about including the final six questions in the calendar of questions in one final post. February will be about sharing news from reviewers, readers, writing more posts about creativity, the process, and…
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Here is the fifth blog post of the new year and I’m sticking to my new year’s resolution . . . a bit late in the day on Monday, but better late than never, right? Okay, so, five more questions in the list appear and I’m all set to answer them for your reading pleasure.…
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Continuing to delve into Wake Me Up in a variety of specific and observational ways, I hope you’re enjoying these “background” questions and answers about my first literary crime novel. This set of five questions deal with the senses involved in the book, from sights, scene setting, to sounds, scents, tastes, and touch/textures involved in…
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Wake Me Up is now speaking “softly” to early readers out and about the multiverse. Feedback is trickling in, reviews welcome on all platforms (Goodreads and Amazon), and articles and interviews to answer. The local paper has a bright new paperback copy and I sat with them for an interview yesterday. The local bookstore, Watermark…
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All for fun, I’m providing five more answers in the January joy theme activator, one question for each day of the month . . . These cover January 6th through the 10th and I’m happy to begin thinking of why I wrote something that way, or how I created a certain character, conflict, resolution, scene,…
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I’ve decided to try to post answers to questions specific to my latest psychological, literary crime novel, Wake Me Up. This book took over ten years to write and produce, going through hundreds of revisions and edits. It began to take shape in 2004, and the novel is set in October right before the contentious…
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As this new year begins, I question what really happened in 2015 with a heavy sigh. So many ups and downs of a smallish nature, some happy and bewildering moments mixed in with incredible disappointment, news of sadness, illness, the passing of the well-known and those alone, family and friends, close and acquaintances. Keep a…
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Hello fellow book readers and lovers of the printed page, be it on kindle or the best way, the old-fashioned way, in paperback. This post is to share with you the news that throughout the month of November, all of these 200 titles will be on sale for $2.99 (eBook version only), and several of…
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There are so many thrilling moments taking up my days, and I’m enjoying the line editing on Wake Me Up, tweaking the paragraphs, language, sentences, phrasing, words. All in service to the story. And this story centers on a teenage boy in trouble, both from within and without. I hope you enjoy my first psychological…
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Wake Me Up comes out in the next three months from Gravity Books, enough time to plan each detail of its release. The publishing side of any book is the most difficult to get through. There are too many steps to follow, but each step does bring the book closer to that miraculous point where…
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