Hi, The previous post was about my problems finishing the novella that I plan to use as a giveaway to start building an audience for my upcoming thriller, The Jagged Man. After I published If a Butterfly, I spent (wasted?) most of 2022 implementing a very time-consuming (but moderately successful) e-mail advertising campaign for both …
Hi, The previous post was about the next few novels or novel series I intend to work on this year and for several years after that. My main focus at the moment is on trying to finish my novella, Flood and Fire, but it hasn’t been as easy as I originally hoped it would be. …
Hi, The previous post, “What I’m Working On,” was about my plans for finishing and publishing my novella, Flood and Fire, and its sequel, The Jagged Man. If I can somehow manage to complete those two books and get them ready for publication this year, I will start working on Murder Between Friends, the first …
Hi, If you’ve been following this blog for a while you’ve noticed that I have been (in between all of the household and medical interruptions) trying to complete two particular tasks, finishing my novella, Flood and Fire, and re-editing its sequel, The Jagged Man. Sadly, I haven’t made much progress on either of them. Flood …
Hi, New Year’s Resolutions (NYRs). I wonder why we choose the start of a new year to resolve to accomplish something we have probably have been meaning to do for some time, but didn’t manage to get it done earlier. If the task was important, why didn’t we do it when we first thought about …
Hi, [Medical and Literary Updates: I’m still finding it difficult to focus for long periods of time, which makes the writing more difficult, of course. Some of it’s mental fuzziness, although most of that disappeared after I stopped taking pain medication, The rest of it is because of my daily routine now. One of the …
Hi, [Medical and Literary Updates: I’m finding it difficult to focus for long periods of time, which makes the writing more difficult, of course. Some of it’s mental fuzziness, although most of that disappeared after I stopped taking pain medication, The rest of it is because of my daily routine now. One of the things …
June 27, 2025 (Mostly A Reposting of Newsletter #22) Hi, [Medical and Literary Updates: The healing is still ongoing. Some days, when the therapist is here, I will do more than I should and I regret it the next day. I have another couple of weeks of PT left, three days a week, and my …
Hi, Medical and Literary Updates: I guess I have a lot to report. The writing has stalled somewhat. I was on pain pills (Tramadol, about the only pain medication I can take), so I was a bit fuzzy-brained and sleepy most of the first couple of weeks. I’m using less Tramadol now, so that’s getting …
Hi, Literary Update (not much to add): My novella is a little over 40,000 words now. I hope to have the first draft of it finished fairly soon. [Note (11-7-2025): I was apparently kidding myself. For reasons I will cover later in the year, I still haven’t finished it.] I’ve already spotted a few structural …