And no, this post isn’t about that, so the three quarters of you who were Googling with your office door closed can move along now, nothing to see here. This post is about a different form of self-flagellation. I’ve recently started using Twitter for both the social networking aspects and the networking opportunities it brings to my writing career. Twitter, [...]
Click on the book to the right. Do it now. Run, don’t walk. Pati Nagle has a new book out. I’ve been lucky enough to work with Pati in the past, and met her at the Oregon Coast Professional Fiction Writer’s workshop and I can tell you from first hand experience that she’s a helluva writer. My copy is [...]
As I’m terrifically busy today, I thought I’d post a flash piece today that originally appeared in Shadowed Realms Magazine, issue #7. Hope you all enjoy! Triad in the Key of Lies by Joseph Paul Haines The first time she visited, the weather was nothing like the day we met. The late autumn winds hummed a dirge through the trees just outside [...]
Sometimes, nothing I can say will make someone look more stupid than their own words already have. As such, I present you with: an Idiots Guide to Copyright Law!
Yeah, it happens. You get a certain number of words into your work-in-progress and come to a stunning realization that requires you to set aside the pages you’ve written and start over from scratch. As I was writing, I realized that the emotional content, while relevant, lacked a certain . . . something. For the life of me, I couldn’t [...]
It’s only fair after all. If the cell company is going to use complex calculations to generate your bill, why shouldn’t you do the same to pay it? Adds a whole new meaning to the word, “Payback,” doesn’t it? Gotta love it.
After a gentle prodding from a good friend (yeah, I hear ya’ Netta) I’ve updated my bio and bibilography pages of this site. You can find the links next to the picture of that funny-lookin’ guy at the top of this page. I’ll be updating my links page next, so if you’d like me include your site, please shoot me [...]
Another thousand words in today on the work-in-progress, which goes by a variety of names depending on my mood. Last week got bogged down in life, but I’m back at it. Going to finish this book by May if it kills me. (Which it won’t, I just felt like being melodramatic.) And here’s a lesson for all the writers out [...]
The last blog post you saw was an update from my Twitter account. When I activated the Twitter feed here, it had the option to create a daily digest of my tweets (the little messages you create on Twitter) and post them as a blog entry. How cool! How technologically savvy! How hip and all sorts’a wonderful am I! How [...]
