Monthly Archives: January 2007

So, the ice storm of 2007 has been a bust so far. I’m not complainin’. It did get cold, but no rain, so no ice, so no closures and everything is running pretty much normal. I made it to court … Continue reading →

Tomorrow will be winter in southeast Texas. The day before yesterday it was 75°. Yesterday it was in the sixties. Tonight it will plummet to the low thirties and upper twenties. It has been raining pretty much nonstop since last … Continue reading →

My goal for the weekend is to finish this revision pass on Ghost Inn. I’ll e-mail the manuscript to my agent when I’m finished, but I’ll also print it out and send it to him in hardcopy, as I get … Continue reading →

I’m nearly 2/3 of the way through editing Ghost Inn. The chapter I’m at now is a fairly crucial one, as it represents a change in motivation for a couple of major characters and I want to make sure it … Continue reading →

My original plan was idealistic. I’d work on revisions of Ghost Inn while concurrently attempting to write something new. Didn’t work. I found that I was only able to concentrate on the revisions, because I really want to get this … Continue reading →

I bought myself an erasable whiteboard yesterday. I have no idea why I didn’t think of doing this before. Until now, I’ve always used a bunch of small notepads to list upcoming deadlines and even unscheduled projects to keep them … Continue reading →

The first response to a short story submission I had this year is…an acceptance letter. Dark Wisdom will publish my 1000-word story “Therapy” some time this year. Before issue 15, the editor tells me. Given its relative brevity, the editor … Continue reading →

This is almost like one of those year-end missives about what I’ve been up to in 2006—except it’s a missive about what I’ve been up to at the end of 2006, since I haven’t posted in a couple of weeks. … Continue reading →