FIVE YEARS IN: Part Three "Writers Prefer to Explode from Within"

FIVE YEARS IN: Part Three "Writers Prefer to Explode from Within"

The question then becomes: How much abuse am I willing to take in order to have a publisher or an agent? How much of my self-esteem is up for grabs in order to crack the publishing marketplace?

Is this a writing culture thing?

Is this “just the way it is?”

Is this – God help me – normal?

FIVE YEARS IN: Part Two "The Teeny Tiny Oak Gets Run Over by a Bulldozer"

FIVE YEARS IN: Part Two "The Teeny Tiny Oak Gets Run Over by a Bulldozer"

What had seemed awesome was suddenly not awesome. What seemed like a cool, gracious, supportive online community became contentious, battering, hateful.

I wanted to step away. I wanted to, maybe, forget the whole thing and go back to screenwriting. Better the sharks you know, I figured.

Instead, I wrote.

A Change of Plans -- JournalStone Editions of Behold the Void, Sacculina & Fragile Dreams to go OOP - BTV Reissue Announced

A Change of Plans -- JournalStone Editions of Behold the Void, Sacculina & Fragile Dreams to go OOP - BTV Reissue Announced

It’s with a strained but buoyant heart I write this post.

The last few years have been nothing short of amazing. It’s been thrilling to produce new work, to see it published, and to watch with a sense of awe as readers gravitated to my books – supporting me and my stories in a bigger way than I would have, or could have, ever imagined possible…