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  • IWSG March 2026

    This month’s question is about book launches. Right now, I’m focusing more on getting books out there, first. Then I’ll start some marketing stuff when I’ve got a few titles out there. I’m a one-body shop, so it gets a little challenging to coordinate all the things. Right now, I’m finalizing my first fantasy book…

  • Progress! February 2026

    Formating is done for the first fantasy book! After four or five catastrophic failures that were mostly user error, it is done! Sort of. I’ve begun proofreading. A new form of irritation. I thought I’d caught all of my fabulously obvious mistakes in this last struggle to format. I was so tragically wrong. As of…

  • IWSG February 2026

    February 4 question – Many writers have written about the experience of rereading their work years later. Have you reread any of your early works? What was that experience like for you? Most of my experience has been “put the patient on the donor list, but we’re burning most of it.” Even now, as I…

  • January 2026 Word: Vastidity

    I cannot promise how, where or when these words were used, if ever. I simply find them delightful, and want to share. VASTIDITY Vastness. Shakespeare, Measure for Measure I can’t say this out loud unless I say it very slowly, carefully annunciating every syllable. I think that’s why I actually don’t like this word that…

  • IWSG December 2025

    December 3 question – As a writer, what was one of the coolest/best gifts you ever received? Ummm….from someone else? Space pens. They’re awesome. They’re just awesome. Now you can get different color inks, too. But my favoritist gifty was one I bought for myself when I was 14. It’s a storyteller ring with this…

  • Progress Report November 2026

    We have discovered that a large portion of the problems I’m having formatting my manuscripts is because my laptop is old, and Scribus is apparently a memory hog. Notice I said “a large portion of the problems.” The rest of the problems seem to be my ability to copy paste cut and format in a…