First of all, welcome to the new subscribers from the Liminal Fiction ebook list! I send this newsletter out once a month, sometime around the end of the month/first part of the next month. This newsletter is late in part because of...events, in part...

Hi everyone! The newsletter is running a bit late this time because, well...three trips for routine medical stuff over three weeks. One of those trips wasn't routine because I finally am getting my second cataract dealt with, except for the actual sc...

Yep, I got the trilogy finished and uploaded. Due to a glitch on the part of me, the publishing schedule is all out of whack. Instead of scheduling Crucible for prerelease on September 10th as originally planned, I released it on Draft2Digital and pu...

 Sometimes you just can’t keep a good character down. Mike Martiniere sandbagged me when I wrote the first Martiniere Legacy books, appearing as the five-year-old clone of Philip Martiniere in Realization. He kept nagging at me until I wrote his...

It's been fiery and smoky for most of July. Fortunately it hasn't been too horrific but still...between smoke, heat, and water drop planes, I'm ready for the summer to be DONE. There's been several days where the steady flights have been reminiscent...

One of the drawbacks of how my brain functions is that complex organizational schemes only last for a short period of time, generally. Some things remain relatively intact—my use of the 8 ½” x 11” Moleskine weekly planner, for one, which is just an e...

 There’s been a lot of quiet progress on the equine front. Mocha and Marker moved to summer pasture in May. Mocha immediately began establishing her rule not just over Marker but the neighboring gelding, Blue. In past years, when it’s been just...

Well. A lot of stuff happened in June, culminating in the big group trail ride this pic comes from. Mr. Marker Boi did himself proud as part of the Ranch Rodeo Trail Ride. It was a big event with around 50-ish horses/mules and riders from little kids...

Over the past few days I’ve been working my way through nearly a thousand pages of manuscript to whip The Cost of Power into some sort of continuity shape. After running all three books through a line edit, my next step was to sit down with paper and...

It’s amazing how inspired I can get from reorganizing my office. Starting the process always begins with me reaching a point of frustration, because whatever structure I have been using suddenly just doesn’t work. Brain fog tiptoes in and I end up fe...