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Posted onJuly 20, 2015My Life

Metrics of Success

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Have you ever sat down and tried to sketch out an exact scenario that would signify you’ve achieved your dreams? I did. About ten years…

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Posted onJuly 13, 2015My Life

My Baby Turned Loose Into the World

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Today is the day! It was October 4th, 2011, when I wrote the last word of The Deathsniffer’s Assistant. (The last word is “murder,” which…

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Posted onJuly 10, 2015My Life

What’s In A Name?

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I’m going to go a lot more personal today than I have in the past. There’s now a mere weekend between us and the release…

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Posted onJune 26, 2015My Writing

Seeing Your (Literary) Baby for the First Time

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“You’re not going to believe this,” one of my closest friends texted me to say a week ago. “There was a box from Amazon on…

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Posted onJune 17, 2015My Life

The Way That You Cheer and Scream For Me

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I’ve documented my shameful and yet devoted adoration of contemporary Pop Music. I love all music! Really I do. From trance to drum&bass, from country…

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Posted onJune 3, 2015My Writing

Schrodinger’s Manuscript

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I finished my first pass revisions of my second novel this weekend. That’s the first step in my editing process, when I just go through…

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Posted onApril 23, 2015A to Z Blogging Challenge

N: No More Castles, or, why I’ll never write medieval fantasy

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(Gosh, it’s amazing how quickly you can get behind on this challenge when you have a busy week, isn’t it? Here’s me rolling up my…

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Posted onApril 15, 2015A to Z Blogging Challenge

I: Inspiration, or, Where Did the World of My Book Come From?

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Today I’m just going to talk a bit about my own work. My first book, The Deathsniffer’s Assistant, offers a lot of things that I…

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Posted onApril 5, 2015A to Z Blogging Challenge

D: Dreaming of the Publishing World

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Am I the only one who’s just enamoured with publishing as an industry? I know, I know. It’s flawed. It’s a business. It turns art…

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Posted onApril 3, 2015A to Z Blogging Challenge

C: Clean Reader, or, the c-word and when I used it

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There’s been a lot of talk in the publishing community lately about a new app called “Clean Reader.” Clean Reader can be installed onto tablets…

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