Title changes are usually wrenching, but they also offer much relief after you finalize your decision. In my case I try to decide what an ideal reader would make of my novel title. If I see that the title is … Continue reading →
The Martian Marauders, the first novel in my Jack Commer science fiction series, is now available in a paperback edition as well as the original eBook version from Double Dragon Publishing. If you go to The Martian Marauders page at … Continue reading →
I can’t remember, nor does a Google search tell me, which of the great science fiction writers said, more or less: “Keep the manuscripts in motion until they are bought.” I think it was Heinlein but it doesn’t really matter. … Continue reading →
The Martian Marauders, the first of three novels in my Jack Commer science fiction series, has just been published by Double Dragon Publishing as an eBook, in a variety of formats including EPUB (for most eReaders including Nook), PDF, Mobi … Continue reading →
Several years back I began compiling a timeline of what writing projects I was working on. It’s always interesting to see how much builds up over time, and it’s easy to keep up with–just note the start and stop dates. … Continue reading →
No one wants to take the author’s word for it that his or her writing is good–not the slush pile reader, not the editor, not the editorial board, not the marketing staff, not the sales force, not the average reader … Continue reading →
Come on, really–what DOES it mean? Sending query letters to literary agents was one of my more useless wastes of time and energy, but one submission–and it might have been the last one to an agent, a couple years ago–brought … Continue reading →
I finally returned to this novel and finished it last month. After an initial two drafts I’d finished what I thought was a final manuscript of The Soul Institute in December 1999, and I was proud of the result. Yet, … Continue reading →
Following is a list of my novels and novellas with terse little elevator pitch summaries and some notes as to their fates. If there are novel title links, they lead to their detailed info pages on the mothership, www.sortmind.com. Just … Continue reading →
I never thought much about my stint as editor of the Wiess Crack until I began to see it as another piece of lost energy I wanted to reclaim from the beginning of my writing life. In the small enclosed … Continue reading →
