After participating in SPSFC twice (#1 and #3) with Daros and Kenai, and lacking a book to enter this year, I decided to try my hand at judging. I’ll be part of the Peripheral Prospectors team this year, led by Athena over at OneReadingNurse.com. Our...

So, I’ve done NaNoWriMo for the past five years, and I’ve written a whole bunch during these Novembers, the majority of four books and a good chunk of Daros (my college was trying to illegitimately sack me during November 2020, so writing suffered th...

Here’s a recap of how it went for my first attempt at selling books and games at a convention. I was at Crash City Con 2024. The registration was easy, the hosts were kind and helpful, I met cool people, and it was overall a fun experience. In terms...

I landed a BookBub featured deal about a month ago for my mystery novel, What Grows From the Dead. I’ll abbreviate the book as WGFTD for ease in typing from here on out. BookBub featured deals are competitive – I’ve been applying for them for five ye...

This article on my writing process was posted as part of a blog tour for What Grows From the Dead. It was originally posted here. Writing past your headlights It’s late, and your trip’s been long and difficult. You’re off the main road, trying to fol...

This article on my writing process was posted as part of a blog tour for What Grows From the Dead. It was originally posted here. Writing to genre – challenges and shortcuts I’m here to talk about my mystery book, but I have been publishing books for...

Vampire Steve is a character in What Grows From the Dead. This was a character guest post as part of that book’s blog tour, originally posted here. Transcript of Taped Interview: Stephen Janewicz, session #2 Date: November 3, 10:45am Background on th...

Mindy is a character in What Grows From the Dead. This was a character guest post as part of that book’s blog tour, originally posted here. An essay about a family member? Are you kidding? That’s soooo sixth grade. No, I don’t think I’m special. No,...

The first stop on my book blog tour for What Grows From the Dead is up. Jane gave the book five (5!) kitties, which is enough to make everyone’s day better. For this blog, I also did an author piece on writing in different genres, if bloviation is yo...

To celebrate the tenth running of the SPFBO, in which my own The Glorious and Epic Tale of Lady Isovar is entered, I decided to read the first bits of each of the 300 entries and celebrate them in a silly way. Using the samples provided by Amazon (or...