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The Dragon Kings Of OklahomaReleasing September 3rd, 2024$2.99 for Kindle only They were just two good ol’ boys putting out a fire in the Ouachita mountains. They didn’t expect to find a mother dragon sitting on her brood… Daisy Collins was born in Oklahoma and he’s gonna die in Oklahoma. But a busted hip means […]
A long time ago, I put out this post to announce that we had gotten a new dog. That was when I was blogging a lot. I posted a lot of pictures of her, my sweet girl. I’m no longer blogging. But since she started out in whatever public eye I had, it… feels wrong […]
So! I’ve written an urban fantasy novel set in modern rural Oklahoma – and while I’ve done a lot of research (including visiting several towns), I could use a beta reader who’s lived there to ensure I don’t get anything too wrong. (Bonus points if you have extensive experience with functional opioid addicts.) In addition, […]
When I was a teenager in the 1980s, I idolized New York’s shock jocks – those vaguely-liberal, outrage-inducing dudebros who thought it was brave to make fun of everybody. So when I wrote my first essays in the late 1980s, I emulated Howard Stern and his buddies – writing proto-edgelord columns about personal dysfunction. Come […]
Back in November, I mentioned that I’d written the rough first draft of a massive generational fantasy novel – 311,000 words. In case you don’t do writer-speak, that’s literally bigger than all three books in the entire Flex trilogy stacked atop each other. And since I’ve taken three months to do minor edits, clarifying the […]
Worldbuilders does some really great sci-fi related charity work, and so I’m happily volunteering my time to help em out. You can help them out by donating! Basically, every $10 you donate gets you a chance to win a critique from a pretty stellar group of authors, and somehow also I am included. The list […]
I know I’ve been absent from blogging and social media as of late, for good reasons, and I’ll explain that sooner or later (with a necessary apology appended, don’t argue, I know when and what I need to apologize for). But I’m firing up this dusty blog to mark one special occasion: I have finished […]
So in addition to my usual SAD, I’ve been staying with my Mom while she’s been getting a biopsy and waiting for news on progress on her multiple myeloma. She’s been in chemo treatments (thankfully light ones, but still poison) for eight months now, and we didn’t know how things had gone. As it turns […]
We were alone in a car in a parking lot, talking and occasionally kissing. I was still very new to this. My adolescent years had been a seething hell of isolation, spending three long years without a single friend to call my name, and I had come to terms with the fact that not only […]
A Floor Is Making Me Happy.We are now in the stage of our van-to-camper conversion that we are installing vinyl floor panels! And this is magical. All the stuff we’ve done up until now has been substrate work – insulation, boards to attach other boards to, waterproofing. Last night we laid down the first four […]