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Gas Giant Gambit: A Space-Western Heavy on the Western
This week, I had my very first guest appearance on a podcast! I spoke with Glen Weatherhead of the Creative Writing Wizard website and podcast (if you missed it, you can check it out on YouTube and Spotify [it may also be elsewhere, I’m not sure all the places Glen posted it]). We talked about…
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Reading Goals for 2025
Last year I discovered Goodread‘s Reading Challenge and set a goal of 15 books for myself–and reached it. 15 was, admittedly, an easily attainable goal. That said, I had my doubts I would finish, given the fact that many of the books I read are extremely long (The From a Certain Point of View Star…
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Goodbye ’24, Hello ’25
With the new year arriving in less than 12 hours from the time I sit here writing this, I feel it’s a nice time to take a look back at what 2024 has given me, and then look forward to what is yet to come. 2024 This past year was such an exciting time for…
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Rejection Goal: 90/100
With two weeks left in the year, I have officially hit 90 rejections for short stories and manuscripts. Unfortunately, given recent events (especially adopting a new dog that has needed some extra care and attention to help him adapt to his new home) as well as the length of time it often takes for a…
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Today’s Undead Forecast
I’ve been thinking about sharing another short story lately, and I have recently been encouraged to do so by a reader of this blog and my newsletter. So, I have decided to do it this week! I’m proud of the following story despite the fact it has been rejected nine times. I think part of…
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General Updates
I’m going to keep things a little short as sweet this week, mostly because there’s a lot going on around the house, and in my effort to keep up something’s gotta give! Cosmo First and foremost, the reason for the general hectic-ness of my life at the moment: we’re adopting a new dog into the…
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Creative Writing Wizard’s Indie Release Radar
I’m going to do something a little different this week. Instead of ramble on about some topic or other, I want to share a project one of my social media mutuals (dare I say, a “social media friend?”) has embarked on. The Creative Writing Wizard, aka Glen Weatherhead, has begun putting together a list of…
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Why I Chose What I’m Writing Next
So, a few weeks ago I wrote a little about the next novel I’m going to work on: a sci-fi set during World War I, inspired by the claim Manfred von Richthofen–better known as the Red Baron–shot down a flying saucer over Belgium. You can find that brief introduction here. But why that? Why not…
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Hope, Fear, & the Future
I know, I know. Last week I got a little political, and I don’t usually do that here. But I’ve got some bad news; I’m going to do it again–but only a little. And as I have been reminded lately, if “reading is political” (which it surely is), then writing is too. The thing I…
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Election Day Jitters
I finished Nathan Ballingrud’s The Strange this weekend and was all set to write a review of it today. But today is also Election Day in the US, and for the life of me, I cannot drag my brain away from it. As a dual citizen of the US and Canada, I sent in my…
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