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For those of you interested in entering writing contests, I’d like to offer up the Zebulon run by my friend Jeff Schmoyer.  The Zebulon Contest I’m planning on entering, so the best you’ll be able to get is 2nd place, but I’m sure that prize is very nice.  I haven’t looked at

At least to a degree.  I got a request for the first 50 pages of my novel this weekend from an agency in NYC.  How sweet is that? It’s the end of a convention weekend, I’m whacked, and I’m going to rest tonight.  But tomorrow I hope to write another entry with

View from the 12th floor of the Renaiscance Hotel.  Denver, and beyond that, the Rockies. Right now I can’t stop thinking about dinner!  My wife is supposed to arrive soon, we drove separately as she’s not attending the conference and wanted to be free to roam around without stopping me from doing

Conference time… Headed out to lunch at Red Robin with the wife, then traveling to Denver.  75.1 miles between my house and the Renaissance Hotel. If I have time, I’ll post about it from the conference, if not, I’ll see you all Monday and post about it then.

I’m one of the most disorganized people you will ever meet.  I don’t do paperwork well, I don’t do planning things well, really, I’m a mess. But creativity I have in overabundance. This week, due to the writers conference I’m leaving for Thursday morning, I have been unable to write a single

Hi all, I’m getting ready for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Conference, which has kept me hopping. I may have already mentioned that, but I’m running around like a headless chicken to be honest. My one page synopsis is complete, and I have a generic query letter. I am getting ready to

It’s been raining like nuts here in Colorado Springs. Amazingly my writing group showed up in pretty good numbers last night, but there was a lot of concern about road flooding and the like. I took some video on my iPhone, once I get things sorted out with that I’ll put up

It’s been a few days since I posted, I’ve been busy.  Last weekend my wife and I actually socialized with real people, and on Saturday we played Glow Golf at the Chapel Hills Mall in Colorado Springs.  It was delightful, as was the meal we had beforehand at Steak N Shake, which

I hope you all had one.  I did a bit of writing on Saturday, but really haven’t done much except… well, I haven’t done anything this weekend actually.  It was sort of nice, I suppose.

Ember (Refuge’s primary) orbits Oasis at about 70,000,000 kilometers. I realized today that Refuge’s seasons would be tied to the axial tilt and orbital duration of Ember, and completely unrelated to the speed with with Refuge orbits Ember. Oasis is .71 solar masses.Ember is 3,487 times the mass of the Earth. I