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It’s the Steps, Baby
Photo by Randall Honold on Unsplash The other evening I was a little annoyed. I had planned to clean my apartment (including the dishes), answer all my emails, balance my checkbook, finish one of the novels I’m reading, finish writing my current novel, write ten more novels, run a marathon, climb Mount Everest, be the first human on…
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Invisibility Potion
Do you ever feel like someone slipped an invisibility potion into your morning cereal? I think it’s happened to me this week. Texts have gone ignored, emails unanswered, phone calls unreturned. Maybe it’s more like an unimportance potion, where anything coming from you just doesn’t feel relevant. An irrelevancy potion. Every artist’s deepest fear. The…
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Peek not Peak
[Photo by JJ Ying on Unsplash] or pique. In my recent newsletter to my adoring fans, part of the subject line read, “and a first peak at the sequel!” Ugh. I am the kind of guy who rereads emails ten times to make sure every comma is in place and there are no misspellings or other egregious errors.…
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Books I Read in 2017
[Photo by Savannah Walters on Unsplash] I love reading. It is such a part of who I am that it seems silly to even mention it. But apparently there are a lot of people out there who don’t. That always surprises me, though at this point in life, it probably shouldn’t. I read a fair amount in 2017, and…
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Headless audiobook available now!
[Photo by Jason Rosewell on Unsplash] Now you can listen to the dulcet tones of yours truly reading Akio and Masami’s thrilling adventure, Headless (Actual photo of me recording above). It was just released on Audible and will be on iTunes and Amazon very soon! GET A FREE CODE for the Audible version! Here’s a sample from Chapter Two:…
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Writer Battle and…Cookies!
The year is almost over. Again. They seem to be somewhat rapid fire lately. As I write this, I am craving cookies. I’ve been craving cookies all day. There are no cookies in my house. I am also riding the stationary bike as I write this. I know! Ridiculous! But this is something that I’ve…
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October Update
Photo by Andrea Boldizsar on Unsplash. I haven’t written much about the sequel to Headless here. In fact, I think the only thing I’ve mentioned is that I am writing one. I actually haven’t told ANYONE what it’s about yet. Not even my wife. Not even my brother. Both of whom I share just about everything with. I…
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Now
Photo by Steve Halama on Unsplash Just a quick update today. I have added a Now page to my site. This is a simple page where I can put what I’m working on and thinking about right now. It also has my current reading list. The idea is Derek Siver‘s and he has a site dedicated to it…
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Social Muckery: A Lesson in Tweeting
OR Tossing Random Thoughts into the Void Photo by Ian Baldwin on Unsplash I had a talk with my boss the other day at my “real job.” He asked what the point of Twitter was. He just didn’t get it and thought it was a waste of time. I found myself trying to defend it, trying to come…
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How to Review a Book on Amazon
OR How to Not Be a Moron Photo by Brad C. Wilcox It still baffles me how utterly clueless people are sometimes. I was just looking at a book on Amazon, and there was a one-star review that said, “I thought I was ordering a paperback.” That’s all it said. Because this person was too…
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