Category: Writing
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The Cobalt Fist
I’m hip deep in re-outlining my epic, seven book series I’m temporarily calling The Cobalt Fist. I’m having so much fun it’s actually eating into the time I should be spending on finishing my current WIP, Shallow Trenches/Open Skies. But, alas, The Cobalt Fist is my favorite sandbox to play…
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April Anticipation Brought May Flowers
Back at the beginning of April, I wrote a blog post titled Writing News & April Anticipation. And now that it’s May a lot of that anticipation has paid off, so I thought it was time for a follow up! Contest & Awards Laramie Awards I won’t bury the lead,…
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Artemis II & Science Fiction
As a life-long enthusiast of science fiction, science fact, and space exploration as a concept, I have always sort of (and perhaps naively) took it for granted that we would one day go back to the moon. It felt like an inevitability to me. Yet, now that it’s finally happening…
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Writing News & April Anticipation
I’m just going to say it: April has the potential to be a very big month for my (still relatively early) writing career. Let’s get the things I’m anticipating out of the way, first. Contest & Awards NYC Midnight Short Story Challenge I am writing this on Monday, April 6th,…
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My Writing Routine
I first spoke on this topic nearly a year and a half ago, and in that time, quite a bit has changed–while a lot hasn’t–so I thought I might revisit it. I’ll start by saying this isn’t actually my daily routine. I do freelance marketing writing for a living and…
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What is the “Delilah-verse?”
To be blunt, the “Delilah-verse” is the shared universe most of my stories take place in (not necessarily all, but if there is nothing in the story to contradict the larger rules, even if there is also nothing explicitly tying it to other stories, I consider it a part of…
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A Memory for Stories: How I Came to Writing Later in Life
It all started, as it so often does, with reading. From a young age, I was an avid reader, and always reading years above my age group. I routinely scored high on reading comprehension, and I seemed to remember a higher percentage of what I read than others, especially when…
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What You’ll Find in My Writing
With Gas Giant Gambit out now, as well as several of my short stories, including the sci-fi/noir “The Stuff Legends are Made of” in RARE, and my followup novel Shallow Trenches/Open Skies well into its initial draft, (not to mention a larger audience as of late) perhaps it’s time to…
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Writing Journey: 2025 in Review
It’s the week of Christmas, and let’s face it, one of the most chaotic times of the year–second, perhaps, only to next week, in the limbo that is the time between Christmas and the New Year. All that is to say, I very likely will be taking next week off,…
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The 5 Year Plan
With 2025 drawing to a close, I thought I would share with you my five year writing career plan, and in doing so, commit it to the world so it’s no longer just something in my head I say I’m going to do. The Status Quo The current status quo…
