The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
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Friday briefs
Awful: Some nutjob went insane at a theater and murdered twelve people at the premiere of Dark Knight Rises. Countdown to blaming it on the Tea Party or Republicans or NRA in 3, 2, 1…. Oh, well then it must … Continue reading
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Thump. Thump. Thump.
That sound you hear is the sound of me banging my head on my desk over my inability to find a good cover designer for a reasonable price who will be able to start on August 3rd and turn my … Continue reading
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Thursday briefs
Chuck Schumer, defending Big Business against the little guy: Only he’s with the publishers and Apple who colluded to set higher prices on ebooks. He’s getting slammed at Ars Technica, even though its Apple editor wrote a fairly favorable(to Apple) … Continue reading
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Any good cover designers out there?
I am striking out to date in finding a cover designer for my novel. I have the cover art, but need someone for the type and back cover design. Does anyone out there know anyone with experience in book cover … Continue reading
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The state of the novel
Well, the novel is currently with my copy editor. I just purchased a new theme for the new writing blog that will go live in a few weeks. The cover art gets closer and closer to done. I’m lining up … Continue reading
The novel update
I’m in the editing phase now. Next week I send the manuscript to my copy editor, then out to beta readers. Things are going well. I got thumbnail sketches for the cover art last week and picked a scene, so … Continue reading
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Writing and reading link roundup
What E-publishing means to a country boy: If you didn’t grow up where I did, you may not understand what this means, but it’s worth hearing. I know a lot of people with e-readers who are reading voraciously, who had … Continue reading
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I am officially a novelist
The novel is complete. I did it. I want to jump up and down and shout and then set off fireworks outside. But my neighbors probably wouldn’t like the last, so I won’t. I am, however, going to go downstairs … Continue reading
Another weekend writing
Another weekend trying to finish the novel. Over 3100 words and Chapter 13 is finally finished. There are four more unfinished chapters in various stages of incompleteness. I’m sure I can get two of them done this weekend, and I’m … Continue reading
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A writing weekend
I spent many hours writing this weekend, especially since I don’t have a car and couldn’t really go anywhere. (Although I went shopping with a neighbor on Saturday and out to a friend’s for dinner on Monday, so carless does … Continue reading
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Another book report?
In case you were wondering, I’m now past 64,000 words and on my way towards completing the novel on deadline. Well, unless I wind up adding another chapter near the end. It may be necessary. Five thousand words last weekend, … Continue reading
The perils of writing
Here I am, writing away, expecting to have a pretty uneventful day. I’m filling in the corners, or at least, that’s what I thought I was doing. But suddenly, instead of filling in a corner, I’ve written my hero into … Continue reading
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Writing update
The novel continues apace. I’m past 57,000 words and coming into the home stretch. I’m at the point now where it isn’t word count so much as filling in the spots that I leaped over while writing earlier. I finally … Continue reading
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Nanoprinting: An Israeli breakthrough
Apparently, Israel is about to knock Germany out of the lead in commercial digital printing. With nanotech. Landa NanoInk is comprised of pigment particles a fraction of the size of a human hair. Powerful absorbers of light, these tiny particles … Continue reading
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Working seven days a week again
Years ago, back when I found myself deeply in debt and unable to find a decent-paying full-time job, I signed up with temporary agencies and worked three jobs, seven days a week, until I found better and better (and better-paying) … Continue reading
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