Category: Me!
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My Favorite Thing to Write: Genre Mashups with a Historical Bent
Wow. Yeah. That’s a mouthful. But as I look over the original projects I’ve got coming out over the next few months, as well as the projects I’m currently working on, this is undeniably true. I really love writing genre mashups that have a certain (if varying) historical element. Here’s…
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Goaltending: How Hockey Has Helped Me As A Writer
I struggle with blog topics nearly every week. And so, nearly every week, I scour Google for some new topic inspiration to get me started. And every week, I see the same suggestion to talk about hobbies outside of writing. But I have resisted writing on this topic since I…
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My Writing Career Bucket List
I’ve got my head so full of developmental edits for Gas Giant Gambit this week, I thought I’d do something simple for today’s blog. So, just for funsies, here are my top ten writing career bucket list items! In no particular order: That’s all for now! Back to the dev…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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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…
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My Next Project: Sci-Fi Set During The Great War
I’m currently working on one horror feature film screenplay we want to shoot next spring/summer. I’ve got another my production company is shopping around for funding, but it needs major rewrites. I’m also working on a horror adaptation web series we hope to start shooting in January. And finally, I’ve…
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