The Tech Gods Have…

Newsletter 038 – May 12, 2023 Hi, This newsletter was originally going to be about some of my new publishing and image-editing software, but my experience over the past week or so caused me to switch topics. I had an issue crop up when I installed one of them, so that’s what this newsletter is …

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Can You Make It as a Writer?

Picture of Michael at a NaNoWriMo event

This is a question I’ve often asked myself, and I would imagine most writers who have looked seriously at their craft have also wondered, “Do I have what it takes?” I’m going to hand the microphone (metaphorically) over to one of the most successful screenwriters of all time, Terry Rossio. He wrote, co-wrote, or headed …

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The Jagged Man is Finally Out

Picture of Michael at a NaNoWriMo event

[Originally posted on my former blog, Michael Runs the Gamut] I had tweeted about it on Twitter, and posted about it on the Jagged Man website. [2021 Note: The Jagged Man website is currently dead. It will likely be resuscitated when a second edition of the book goes on sale. Sometime in 2023?] Although I …

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Being a Self-Publishing Virgin is Scary

Picture of Michael at a NaNoWriMo event

[Originally posted on my former blog, Michael Runs the Gamut] For the past several years I’ve submitted queries (although not nearly often enough), and pitched my novels at conferences, with no success. Okay, I lied at least a couple of times in that first sentence. In 2002, I participated in NaNoWriMo for the first time, …

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