Category: Novel
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That Sinking Feeling
photo by Jim Digritz The downstairs neighbor woke me up with a text. Is your sink clogged? Not that I’m aware of, I reply. Kitchen sink? Yup. So I check. I drag out of bed and run it for a couple of minutes. Seems fine, I text back. I wait, hoping in vain, knowing what’s…
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Akio’s Journal – April 13th
I found another one of Akio’s journal entries from just a few weeks before the events in Headless. It’s kind of personal, but at this point, he’s probably okay with me sharing it. Considering all he’s been through, I’m sure a little maudlin complaining about a past girlfriend is one of the least of his…
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Let the Beheadings Commence
You might think this is a post about a new American policy toward immigration, but no… HEADLESS HAS AN OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE. It will be here very, very soon. Am I nervous? Hell, yes. But extremely excited too. It’s going to be released on that second most terrible day this year when the world…
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Akio’s Journal ~ April 4th
Akio Tsukino at his journal. Everyone thinks I’m stupid. Maybe I am. I try to cover it up with wisecracks and goofing around. But that just makes it worse. Maybe if I was deadly serious all the time. Like Masami. Maybe if I could just focus on my work and tune everyone else out like…
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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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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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