The Travails of Being an Old Fart, Part 1
This being sick stuff really sucks. It’s robbing me of days I can never get back. I’m almost 58 years old, and this is the very first...
Andy Solomon Delivers with a Deft Hand
I started reading this book because my daughter was in one of his classes, and I wanted to know exactly who would be shaping her emerging...
Magic men and dashboard speakers
I woke up this morning with “Magic Man” in my head. The song, not a dude. You get it? Anyway, I got to thinking, as I lay there trying...
The Next Best Thing to Being There
I first read Death’s Head when it came out in installments, with breaks of several months between the four releases, and I enjoyed it so...
Progress report
It's about time I let people in on what's been going on. A Pebble Tossed: The leaner, meaner version of Pebble, about 75% of its original...
And now for the good news
First off, what a cool cover! Simple, elegant, evocative, and very representative of the book. Finn. Wow. What an incredible feat Jon...
If you can't say something nice about somebody ...
I'm about to publish two book reviews, a good one and a bad one. I'll start with the bad news. I wrote this one a month or so ago, and...
Words you should never use in your writing
Noticed this post the other day on Diana Urban's website. A very interesting article that includes some good rules of thumb. I don't...
Pebble Revision Round 1: Complete!
I managed to cut Pebble down from 127,000 words to 117,00 without too much pain. I simply cut out the whole Kate/Brian subplot, which...
Revising Pebble
For the first time in quite a while, I went back to reread some of A Pebble Tossed yesterday. You'll never guess what I learned. I...
