Category: Journal
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We Have to Talk
So…uh…Wordpress? Can I talk to you for a minute? Uh…yeah, it’s kinda serious. No, it won’t be pleasant, but we can’t ignore it any longer. We have to talk this out. So…um…I have a new website. I know, I know. This is hard to hear, but it’s this really cool, well-designed site to promote my new…
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Headless Bookmarks
We had some bookmarks printed to promote Headless. They look pretty great, I think. All thanks to that amazing mask illustration by Michelle Tolo and the great background textures by my web designer (not this site—more on that later). It’s a bit redder than the book cover will be, but I like it a lot.…
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More Google Maps Images of Headless Locations
I’ve been working on the final edits of Headless: clarifying the confusing, smoothing the rough bits, and changing some minor descriptive elements. I have some side stories in the works and will have those out soon on the Extras page. In the meantime, here are some more Google Maps photos from my research. I’m still blown…
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Flying Over Japan with Google Maps
The Chuo Expressway between Tokyo and Kofu I think I have a new favorite website. It’s Google Maps. You may already know about this function, but I didn’t, and was pleasantly impressed. I was using Street View to do some research for some of my edits of Headless, when I backed up one step further than…
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Feedback
Artwork by RobbyCobalt As someone who sang and played guitar in a few different rock bands, feedback often makes me think of that shrill squeal that rips through the PA when you point the microphone at the speakers, or when your guitar amplifier has started picking up alien radio signals. Sometimes there’s just no explaining…
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HEADLESS
Here, finally, is the ANNOUNCEMENT OF MY DEBUT NOVEL, complete with amazing cover art! The book is called Headless, as you can see, and I can’t express how happy I am with the cover. The artist is Michelle Tolo, and she perfectly captured the look of the demonic somen mask, which is featured in the story. This novel…
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Retiring the Bloody Banner
This is strangely a big deal to me. I really like my bloody keyboard banner, but I’ve decided to retire it in favor of one that shows a picture of me. Part of the reasoning is that I’m taking steps to make this a more professional author page, and well, that’s what professional author…
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Building
I’ve been building. Words were piled on top of words on top of words. Then I took some away and added more. Lots more. Then I took some more away. And so on. Then I sent them off to the OTHERS so they could dissect and dismember them. I willingly handed the words over…
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A Knife to the Muse’s Throat (My NaNo Win)
I did it. I am an official NaNoWriMo winner. I brought in over 50k words in 29 days. I put a knife to the Muse’s throat and filled my pen from her opened jugular. On the thirtieth day, I rested. At the end of week three, I was falling behind. In lieu of my…
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Words Lost and Words Found (NaNoWriMo Update — Week Two)
Photo by ariadna I have been writing every day—not that this is terribly unusual of late—but this time with the pressure of not getting my word count in for NaNoWriMo on top of it. It’s a silly, self-imposed trial of words, but I think there’s some great value to it. Just having committed to doing it…
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