The Life Cycle of the Red Corpuscle

July 4, 2012

I found out how long my mountain-boosted pulmonary system lasted.  Ten days. During Taos Toolbox I spent two weeks at nearly 10,000 feet, which means my body was madly churning out red blood cells to carry all the extra oxygen I needed to survive. When I came home, I figured I’d be bringing a ton […]

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Advice on Titles?

July 1, 2012

Since it’s the bicentennial of the War of 1812, I’m going to see if I can get a little bounce off the anniversary and release my old sea stories as ebooks. Beginning with those set in the War of 1812, of course. (For those of you who don’t know, I had a career writing historical […]

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From Our Friends in Mockba

June 29, 2012

Hey, sometimes it’s just about the joy, y’know?  Start the weekend with some toe-tapping and finger poppin’, secure in the knowledge that Irving Berlin will be with us always in spirit. [via Sue Casper]

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O Rage! O Désespoir!

June 28, 2012

As most of you probably know,  I’ve kept a finger, sometimes a whole arm, in the game business, and there’s nothing I like more than a game based on a literary source.  (Particularly if the source is mine.) But of course the literary works chosen for games tend to be, well, full of large-scale violence […]

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Year One

June 27, 2012

It’s been roughly a year since I started making my backlist available in epub formats, so this seems a good time to shuffle through the records and come to some kind of conclusion. And the conclusion is this: Thank God for Amazon! Even if Amazon is yet another megalomaniacal Internet company bent on annihilating all […]

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TGIF

June 23, 2012

Taos Toolbox is finally over.  And, as when any class comes to an end, the happiest people are the teachers. And look!  David’s gone all entrepreneurial!

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Must Have Slipped My Mind

June 20, 2012

Did I forget to mention the Taos Toolbox Sacrifice Stone? My bad.

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As We Stagger Half-Blind Onto the Shores of Marathon

June 20, 2012

Only two days left at Taos Toolbox, and we are narrowing our focus down to the finish line.  Yet the participants have somehow retained enough brain cells to make amusing remarks, of which a selection follows. There aren’t enough vegetarians in fiction. I’ve been reading a lot of writing books looking for my soul. While […]

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Lovely Day in the Neighborhood

June 18, 2012

It’s been a relaxed weekend here at the Toolhouse, with the students playing tourist or working on their next week’s stories.  I’ve taken a couple hikes, though one of them resulted in my sliding down a rock face and scraping the bejesus out of my knee and shin.  It’s not bothering me much at present, […]

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Spamwall

June 15, 2012

A spambot has now targeted this blog.  (Fake Gucci bags, anyone?)  I’m spending an inordinate amount of time deleting spam. But the spambot is only hitting one topic.  Does anyone know how to turn off comments on a single topic in WordPress? I can turn off all comments.  I can turn off comments on pages, […]

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