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Release notes, process, and the odd dispatch from the desk.

• August 7, 2014

  Spinning My Wheels

  I’ve got a handful of people reading My Last Days right now. Not to tell me that I missed a comma or a closing quote or the like, but to tell me what they think of the story. I read through it twice when I finished the first draft and I’m not fully sure that

  Final Draft · First Draft · Sample Chapters

• August 4, 2014

  Did You Just Throw a Gun Off The Bridge?

  A friend of mine and I liked to drive around together after work, just seeing where we'd end up. One night, we ended up at Hampton Beach and stopped on a bridge to look at the water. The cops pulled us over, thinking we threw a gun over the side.

  Legal Matters · Short Stories · Teenage Years

• July 29, 2014

  My Last Days First Draft is Complete

  It seems like it flew by once I started working on, it really did. Once A Sour Chord was published and for sale, I started hitting My Last Days again. And hit it hard I did. The total word count is just over 92k, and the story seems to all warrant such a word count.

  First Draft · Sample Chapters

• July 21, 2014

  The End is Near!

  Perhaps that’s not the best title for a blog post, but it’s true. The end is, in fact, near. The end of the first draft of My Last Days, that is. If all goes according to plan, I should finish this week and start my first round of edits either this weekend or early next

  First Draft · Sample Chapters

• July 20, 2014

  When I Was a Kid, We Had a Plane

  My dad had his pilot's license as a kid and we spent our weekends flying places. This is the story of how that all came about.

  Childhood · Short Stories

• July 7, 2014

  A Real Website is Important

  Over the past year and a half, since I started this journey, I’ve been to countless websites, blogs, Facebook pages, GoodReads profiles, Amazon Author pages and a zillion other services for authors. What’s the most surprising to me is how few authors have real websites, on their own domain. As someone who works a day

  Sales · Website

• June 23, 2014

  Back to Work on My Last Days

  Now that A Sour Chord is fully done and for sale in the various market places, I’ve decided to put off all of the other real-world tasks that I have to complete and get back to work on My Last Days. Last week I started re-reading everything I’d written so far, so I can be

  Final Draft · First Draft · Sales · Sample Chapters

• June 9, 2014

  Published Author: Three Weeks Later

  I clicked the “Publish” button across all three of the major publishing platforms three weeks ago today, at least what I thought was the three major platforms. It was quickly requested to be published to Google Play, which I hadn’t even thought about, as my sister has an Android device now. And I figured I’d

  Final Draft