Category: my life
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The Only Time I’ve Regretted Being a Book Lover
My house, being over twenty-years-old, needed new floors. The hardest aspect of this remodeling wasn’t replacing the carpet with wood. It wasn’t the dust. It wasn’t every room in the house in disarray. It wasn’t moving furniture around. It was boxing up all my books. And I have a ton of books–in almost every room.…
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Writing is my sanity
New floors being put in throughout whole house; house in disarray; writing is my sanity and salvation. View my Consortium SF Series at Amazon.
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Tri-athlete reader
Reading a print book exercises a different part of the brain than reading an ebook. I jokingly like to think of myself as a “tri-athlete reader” because I exercise different parts of my brain by reading print books, ebooks and audiobooks. View my Consortium SF Series at Amazon. My science fiction book OMNIORB is available…
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How I Use My Bullet Journal
My closest friends know my deepest secret: I use a bullet journal. I rave about it. I’m a little obsessed with it. I’ve been talking about it so much, I suspect they are planning a bullet journal intervention. However, if they saw how a bullet journal could change their lives, they would turn the…
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My reading plan for this year: read more “widely”
The biggest pet peeve I have with myself is how I don’t read widely enough. What I mean is, I don’t read across genres. I stick to the same kinds of books. At the end of each year, I look at the list of books I’ve read and I realize it’s two-thirds speculative fiction: science…
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The answer to the question
As a fiction writer, I have always wondered how to break into the publishing companies that announce on their manuscript submission guidelines: “We do not accept unsolicited manuscripts. We only look at manuscripts through an agent.” Then when trying to find an agent — a legitimate agent — the agents are only looking for established…
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Exposing “exposure” for what it is: an insult
As much as I love designing book covers, I don’t have time to do it for free. Last year I designed book covers for a couple of different small publishers. I figured out one publisher would not be paying enough for the time I put into the projects, so I told the publisher I quit.…
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Writing at the cafe
I’ve had some of my best writing sessions at a coffee shop, but I’ll be honest: sometimes I just hang out and surf the web. I’m procrastinating. I’m telling myself I’m waiting for inspiration but I confess I’ve gotten no writing done at some so-called writing sessions. Here’s an article that describes it from the…
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When I Used to Go Bookcrossing
Ten years ago this month, I joined a website club called Book Crossing. The idea behind this website: release books into the wild. Here’s how it’s done. Register a book on the website. Write the registration number and “http://www.bookcrossing.com” on the inside cover of the book. Leave it someone where someone can pick it up.…
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