Well, the book signing is in two days, and I think I’ve gotten most of the things I need together. I’m dragging my own copies of the books in to show people, and Ian made up a flyer that has the Lulu storefront on it plus synopses of each book. I’ve printed out about thirty or so business cards with the same web address and the titles of Two Minds Are Better Than One and The Continue reading
Category Archives: Books
Book titles
I stink with book titles. I really do. I mean, for years I simply referred to each of the separate books in the fantasy series as Book One, Book Two, Book Three… Well, you get the point, on up to Book Nine. Hell, mentally, I still refer to them by their number. I have a list of their titles around here somewhere, but other than the first three books, I couldn’t tell you the names of any Continue reading
EEEEEEEEEEK!!
The past week has been a busy one. Last Friday, Katie and the kids swung by the Jasper Public Library to look at my murals and chit-chat a bit while they were down pestering the parents. They were having a cookout at the parents’ later, but I worked until 5 and knew I’d be tired by the time I got home. Still, awesome to see them. I haven’t seen them since Rook’s graduation. Friday night Continue reading
Novelty
If you go to the Jasper Public Library website and type in either my name or “Two Minds Are Better Than One,” you’ll see that (currently as of the time of this posting) both books are checked out. Madness, says I. It’s hard to imagine other people reading my works despite having taken four or five creative writing classes in college where an entire room of people was reading my Continue reading
Romance novel
As much as I’m rather loathe to admit it, I’ve decided to write a romance novel. Actually, this idea had come to me some time ago, but back then, the idea was just as much about writing a social commentary on the state of the USA as writing about two people meeting and falling in love. Now, the story has evolved and has ventured slightly further away from the scathing stab Continue reading
FINALLY!
I finally finished the last chapter of Book Three! It took me forever. Seriously, writing fight scenes sucks ass. I really don’t think I want to write any more fight scenes ever, but I know that saying I won’t write any fight scenes ever is impossible. After all, I was thinking about having a magical duel in Book Six. Oh, there’s that and the army that attacks in Book Two. Go figure. At least Continue reading
Luckily, I have a big mouth
Most people either wouldn’t consider having a big mouth “lucky” unless they’ve also got a dirty mind. Regardless, what I mean by the title is that to a lot of people, it would seem that I’m biting off a lot more than I can chew when it comes to my book projects. So far, I have three completed books: Two Minds Are Better Than One (now in large print), Zombie Cookbook, Continue reading
Strange hobbies
Soon at the library, we’ll be hiring three new pages. One of those positions will be the position I’m vacating come May when I become full-time. I was thinking about how long it’ll take to train them and how their training might go more smoothly if they had some handy reference cheat-sheets to carry around so that they will feel more confident about their new jobs. Therefore, as librarianship Continue reading
Terrifying
In a terrifyingly short amount of time, I should be finished with Book Three. Scary. This is the novel that I started writing during NaNoWriMo and managed to get just over 100,000 words written during the month of November. I’m now up to 131,135 words and have only two and a half chapters to write. That basically tells you how much of it was completed during the event Continue reading
Rook, the Editor
Since Rook has been up at our place all week to spend his spring break enjoying high speed internet, he has been here since I got my copy of Two Minds Are Better Than One. Not long after opening the package and marveling at the wonder of having my own book in my hands (not like the thesis which was homework before it was a book), Rook grabbed the novel and started Continue reading