I’m not done yet.
It’s both scary and exciting. I leave next Tuesday for New Jersey. The workshop starts September 10th; the novel has to be out the door before then. Tomorrow would be nice. Or Saturday. Heck, Monday.
Seeing the crit group’s reactions to the story?  When people are threatening you to give them more chapters, you [...]

On the Radiohead message board I used to frequent (and still visit when I have time), we used to have the best thread EVER. It was called “Blame Chris Martin”. How it worked was, whenever something was going horribly wrong in our lives — or if we were just slightly irritated about something — we [...]

I can’t think of no profound thoughts for today. My mind is filled with news from yesterday, so I’ll share that.
First, I’ve got not one but two new covers!

Dark Elves IV is by yours truly and continues my saga about the elves who live in the Dark Forest. Mostly men, and there’s actually some m/m [...]

Have you ever done something you know you are going to regret? Something you know is going to be a disaster, but you do it anyway? Well, that is exactly what I’m doing with my current WIP (work in progress). Not that I think it’s going to be a bad story, I [...]

You know you’re really into the revision when . . .
* the room mate wakes up to you handing her the latest thing you wrote (“Have you gone to bed yet?” she asks).
* you turn on the Food Network and start searching for the show two of your characters are on, and become confused when you [...]

Some of you may know I write screenplays as well as novels. To date, I’ve written 2 adaptations of 2 of my gay romances, one mainstream thriller, one medical thriller, one werewolf horror and one comedy pilot for a TV series.
The sci-fi screenplay is the original version of DETAILS OF THE HUNT. I wrote it [...]

Not REAL sex, of course. What kind of nutball would avoid that? No, I’m talking about The Big Important Sex Scene. As in, the writing of.
I always, ALWAYS flake out during those. No idea why. But give me a sex scene to write, and I develop a sudden, irresistible urge to go for a run, [...]

Lately, I’ve become fond of saying “I don’t write realism, I write escapism that’s mostly realistic”. I’m thinking of getting a banner done.
But I’m actually serious. The Dark Elves series is blatant fantasy, of course, and the Leashed series is fantasy, but I like to think that the characters in those series act in a [...]

I’m going to keep this short and sweet…It is DONE!
It was slow and painful, but finally, it is finished. I’ll start a new story next week along with my new workout.

Probably one of the questions writers hear most often from nonwriters.
Where do you get your ideas?
The answer is that for writers ideas are like air. They’re everywhere. All around us, in everything we see, hear, read and watch, there hides an idea or the kernel of a story just waiting for some unsuspecting writer to [...]