Sometimes, when I am tired, I make myself a little concotion I call “wake-up juice”. In the vein of Coke Blak, it is a combination of 30% cold coffee and 70% Diet Coke. No additional sweetner. Extra caffeine and none of the sugar! But if I’m feeling REALLY crazy, I toss in a shot of Kaluha. It’s [...]
Have Yourself a Nerdy Little Christmas
Thanks to Deanna Hoak for this little bit of holiday cheer:
Thanksgiving is Over
Which means I’m out of excuses not to work. Rats. Dani and I have been together for 7 years now, and married for three, but our families remain unintegrated. This means two of every major holiday, including Christmas, and an endless tug-of-war over who gets the ACTUAL holiday, and who we have to spend the [...]
Subway Writing
I wrote The Painted Man, the first book in my soon-to-be-published fantasy series, on my phone. I have an HP Ipaq 6515 Pocket PC, which runs Windows Mobile 3.1. It’s a little outdated now, but it was the shiz-nit when I bought it a couple years ago. I used to read a lot on the [...]
My New Life
The last couple of weeks have been interesting, as I try to adjust to the complete change in lifestyle that has come with quitting my job to write full time. My last “official” day was Oct. 31, and then I packed up and went to the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs for four days. Then I [...]