Writerly Linkee-poo

So, as someone who is writing the first novel they’ll complete (I think I can, I think I can) this article on This Is Your Job speaks well to me. (grokked form Jay Lake)
The Writer’s Digest (of which I no longer subscribe, sorry guys) with 7 Biggest Myths of Publishing. What she said (especially #7 [...]

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Rejection to Linkages

OSC Intergalactic Medicine show sends word they’re passing on my humorous flash fantasy “Prince Wanted.” The letter is short and sweet, but I’m not sure it’s a form (I’ll have to check older rejections from them). So, sometime this weekend it’s back to duotrope (and now that I think about it, it’s been quite a [...]

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Everything I needed to know I learned in 6 years of college (except for everything I needed to know). – On the Spot!

One thing our visual design instructors instilled in us was the ability to be creative on demand. Design (graphic, information, way-finding, etc) is a business. You don’t have time to wait for the Muse to come in, she has to be on the clock. You might get a new client at 8am and have to [...]

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Not Even Published and Already an Orphan

Well, it’s official, my editor has resigned her position to move to a new publisher, three weeks before my debut novel’s publication date: http://quartetpress.com/
Either I’ve been deserted like a bride at the altar, or I’m developing an industry network across multiple publishers in preparation for launching a powerhouse career in the next big genre.
Snort.
Either way, [...]

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Null_Pointer Shamless Plug

Hitting the market first in digital formats, Null_Pointer debuts this week on the internet. You can now read the first book in this new mystery series about a programmer sleuth named Joshua Jones on the Kindle and in various formats on Smashwords.
The paperback version is due some time in September, but you can [...]

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I learned everything I needed to know in 6 years of college (except everything I needed to know) – Critiques

As I said, I have a BFA. That means a large whopping percent of my college career was spent in art classes. And while the other disciplines in the school had critiques less often (maybe twice a week), for the graphic design program we were critiqued on our output every single class. If you took [...]

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I learned everything I needed to know in 6 years of college (except everything else I needed to know) – What price art.

This one is going to piss off a few people. To start off you need to know that I hold a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Akron Meyer’s School of Art. I have a lot of Art History floating around in my cerebellum, including a bunch that most people have never seen [...]

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