After quite a few months of focusing on my real job, and going 0 for 4 with agents on my manuscript, I decided to solicit feedback on my audiobook from listeners I hired on Upwork. I never did this the first time, because my beta “readers” were actually readers…of the...
( NOTE: This post pertains to “The Range: Cry of the Desert” — the first installment in the fantasy series I’m writing. ) As I work through this “second edition” of the book, I’m realizing a few things. First, it’s much...
First, I’m glad to report that the first volume’s Kickstarter campaign has been funded at 147%! This is huge, and it’s going to help me defray some of the enormous costs of self-funding the editing, beta-reading, and illustration solicitations...
It all comes down to the doing. Not the talking, nor the planning, nor the dreaming, but the doing. I can see the appeal of being a “pantser”, someone like Stephen King who sits and writes and just churns out reams of text. And he’s a master at that....
I’m trying something new. In the interest of being open about the writing process, I thought I’d post a segment of the story I’m writing–target release date is January 1, 2021–with no narrative context before or after this point in the...
