As I'll be teaching at the Cascade Writers Workshop in a few weeks and will be critiquing a handful of manuscripts, I won't have time for free notes this month. So sorry about that. I'll make sure to have the contest up for August,…
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Unfortunately, I won't be doing a free critique this month due to some exciting stuff that I'll be announcing in a week or two. I'm going to make up for it by doing two next month. Sorry all!…
I'm incredibly thrilled to announce that I'll be an instructor at this year's Cascade Writers Workshop in Bremerton, Washington. I was a participant last year, so this is especially exciting for me. A number of my friends will be attending and instructing, so I&…
It's interesting re-reading William Gibson's Neuromancer after almost 40 years. So many of the things that made me drop my jaw back then feel cliched and overdone due to the huge influence of the novel in the intervening years. Every time Case talks about the Matrix…
We have a winner! Congrats to our winner, and if you are interested in a critique from me and didn't win, don't worry—I'll have another giveaway next month.…
I'm sometimes asked if writing screenplays has helped my novel or prose writing, and the answer is it has. It has improved my dialogue, but even more than that it has improved my ability to structure the narrative of a novel. As a result, I do a lot…
The road from short story to novel has been long and winding for Wedding Day, but we have reached our destination. After wonderful feedback from beta readers, the final revisions are done. Now to send it out to agents and perhaps a publisher or two. We shall see. Next up…