Marching alongside the Potomac River, from Washington DC to Cumberland, Maryland is one of my favorite places. The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (C&O) is 184.5 miles long, and operated at its full length from 1850 – 1924, primarily moving coal. Back in the days of the American Revolution, our founding fathers pondered how to best […]
My critique group and I a few weeks back were discussing technology and references that date novels, such as public pay phones versus common cell phone usage, or gas station attendants who pump customers’ gas. Should a writer leave the novel alone, as a snapshot in time, or should they issue a revised edition that […]
I love 1 star reviews. No, I don’t love getting them, I love reading them. I can’t help myself. I’ll go to browse some possible book selections, and I just have to see what those 1 star (and sometimes 2 star) comments are all about. Sometimes they give me insight into what went wrong in […]
I’m over at Indie Author Land, doing an interview about my Imp Series, and specifically A Demon Bound. Come on over!
The short story had decent prose, interesting plot, and a neat twist to the ending, but I just didn’t buy it. I mean, I paid money for the story, but I found the plot premise and, more importantly, the main characters’ motivations lacking. I hovered on the edge of suspended disbelief, but just couldn’t make […]