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As the year draws to a close…
Well, I look back and see that I haven't been a diligent about posting here as I should have. Sorry. I'll try to do better in 2015. It's been a good year, writing-wise. Sales of 1635: Music and Murder and 1636: The Devil's Opera, which were both published around...
Goal Setting: Another Perspective
"There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, and every single one of them is right!" — Rudyard Kipling, winner of the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature, first native English-speaker to attain that prize. The above is taken from a poem entitled 'In the...
Sometimes It’s Hard
Kinda like tonight, for instance. I'm working on the scene I started last night, which features the unsane aliens. It's not hard to describe the actions. But getting my head in a place where I can sort of understand the motivations of the aliens is a strain. And...
Manage Your Business
The Fictorians and our guest bloggers have spent the month of March covering a number of legal topics and issues with which we feel every writer should have some familiarity. If we didn't cover a topic you're interested in, drop us a line and we'll see if we can...
And to round off the evening, a Fictorians blurb
The Fictorians writing blog dedicated March 2014 to blogs about various legal issues of which writers ought to be aware. Lots of good topics, including taxes, contracts, copyrights, and other such legal stuff. We pulled in a number of guest posters, including M....
Something I forgot to mention…
Back last year, second quarter, maybe, I wrote a nice long 1632-verse novella involving my characters Byron and Gotthilf. It came in at a bit over 33,000 words. The final title was Hide Trouble From Mine Eyes. The original game plan was for it to be combined with...
Latest News on 1636: The Devil’s Opera
The book seems to be selling well in both paper and e-formats. [sounds of unseemly celebration in the background]. For those of you who like audiobooks, 1636: The Devil's Opera is now available in audio format. Check it out...
Apologies and Mea Culpas
I have been absent from here for (counts on fingers) about four months. No real excuse, other than I was dealing with a lot of stress in my day job and in other Real Life (tm) situations that just pretty much suppressed my writing, both non-fiction and fiction....
Record Keeping, Part Two: . . . But Necessary
Okay, now for a couple of specific issues: Tax Records (U.S. version) It is a commonly held belief that the IRS requires you to keep your tax records for seven years. Actually, according to the records manager of a company I used to work for, that's not quite the...