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Blog postI am pleased to announce that CyberCon is back! The biggest online book fair ever is waiting in the wings, ready to explode once again starting on May 17th. The event this year is being hosted by a new group, OurWriteSide, that has plenty of veterans from the previous CyCons. For personal reasons, Angela had to drop out this year and left this institution to them.
This is my portion of the blog-hop, a traveling side-show where we humble ourselves before our fellow writers. It's our pleasur -
Blog postWow! Where have I been? There is so much to catch up on, so let's start with where I am.
The move is over. It's been over for some time now. Maybe that's why I haven't been adding to the blog...I'm not perpetually pissed-off any more. We left NC, leaving a few folks that became good friends behind. We also left perhaps the two biggest assholes on the planet, but that was a relief.
In NC, if you remember right, we were invited to stay with "friends". Right. Things went smoot -
Blog postSo, for this family, 2014 will officially be remembered as the most insane holiday ever. Gypsy and I are close to exhaustion, Alexa is going stir-crazy, Noob the wonder dog is close behind and the cats are even feeling it. Last night, Biggie kept cuddling with my daughter's Little Pony doll. In itself, this isn't overly-weird but the doll talks at the slightest touch. So all night I kept hearing "I love you Mommy" and the theme song of My Little Ponies. Let's explore the reasons why th
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Blog postSo, who has anything against free stuff? I know that I certainly don't. I live for giveaways, contests, try-me-outs and any other way to get free stuff. Which brings me to the reason for this particular blog. You see, there are more than 70 books waiting to be snatched up by some lucky people.
A great group called Indie Books Be Seen has come up with the idea of their first annual Secret Santa Indie Book Giveaway Contest. There are some fantastic books available, including The Last Ranger -
Blog postWell, today I have reached a milestone in my life. I have reached the ripe age of 60. To all of you folks that have also reached this milestone and made the statement "I don't feel 60", screw you! I want you to know, I feel 60! Physically that is. My friggin' knees hurt, my back hurts and yeah, there's a little dry skin!
The worst part to this is that mentally, my age ranges from 17 to about 24. This means I see stuff and I want to do it. That's when my support group comes in. My -
Blog postSo, part one of my move is finished and New York is just a bad memory. Wonderful people have accepted us here in North Carolina till we get straightened out, but North Carolina itself is not holding her arms open for us. She is however, holding her hands open for us to drop money in. It seems, nothing comes easy in NC.
North Carolina is a beautiful state. There's no mistaking that. Even though there is no tar on my heels or even on my soles for that matter, I can see the untapped potential -
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Blog postI read an interesting blog the other day about marketing. It seems, I have been promoting instead of marketing myself and my books. There's a difference.
The marketing guru says to find something that is consistent in each book and then apply it to yourself. Like "The writer who talks about love" or "The writer of battles". So I looked through my books and came up with a few. There's "The writer with hands", "The writer who writes stuff" and m -
Blog postWell, the much anticipated move is finally here. We're moving, lock, stock and barrel from the center of Long Island to Hialeah, Fl.
Maybe...
The move is supposed to happen at the end of August when our lease runs out. I say supposed to, because this is getting crazy. There are so many things to do. We've shopped around for ways to do this and have settled on getting a storage container to fill with all our worldly goods and then send off to sunny Hialeah. We all decided that the dri -
Blog postI've been following a discussion the last few days on one of my writer groups about naming characters. For my part, I want my readers to set my book down after reading it and feel as if they know my characters on a personal level. Kind of like they met them at the Harrison's pool party last month. I'm of the opinion that well thought out characters elevate the story by making it a bit more personal.
My characters have personalities and personality can only be full if you know certain event -
Blog postIn case anybody doesn't know, I happen to be Wiccan. Wiccan as in card-carrying, spell-casting witch. I take my faith seriously and I have often been involved in debates about the way my faith is portrayed. Basically, they all break down to "it's my life and I can do what I want" arguments. My point is and always has been, that at the current state of Wiccan acceptance, you have to look at the bigger picture and if it means sacrificing your "freedoms" a bit, isn't your faith
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Blog postOf all the legitimate things to be afraid of, like spiders, snakes and/or woodpeckers, my wife is afraid of clowns. I'm talking push-me-to-the-ground, run-off-screaming afraid. The real thing. She even has clown-sense. It's like Spider Man's Spidey-Sense but it works with clowns. We were in the mall once and she gripped my arm and in a squeaky voice said "There's a clown here!".
A few minutes later we turned a corner, and I shit you not, there she was. Red nose, big funny shoes a -
Blog postToday is my day. Father's Day. Today I rule supreme! That's right, today is my day. It is the one day set aside for Dad. Somewhere in history, June 19, 1910 to be exact, the very first Father's Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
First time Dads have a lot of expectations during the nine months of pregnancy. They have this whole per-conceived notion of how they will act and then...baby. All that shit you thought and said is out the window when you see that little bundle. The first t -
Blog postIn my younger days, one of the popular songs was from Crosby, Stills & Nash, entitled "Teach Your Children". It told the listener to teach their children well. Most of us from that generation did not succeed. Sure, our kids might be raised right, the thirty-somethings, but they seemed to have missed that very important lesson of "teach your children well".
Today at the local mall, they had a super-hero camp for the kids, with Spider Man as the guest hero. When -
Blog postToday is my wife's birthday. She's 35 today and is fine with that. A lot of people start to freak when they hit these little "milestones" in age. Truth be told, like the old saying goes, you're only as old as you feel.
For instance, when one of those favorite songs comes on the radio you'll move around. No matter what the age, you'll move. Especially if you're in a car, safe in that invisible cocoon of leather and steering wheel. Just a note though, those clear things all around -
Blog postLooking back on my life, the thing I notice is my inability to stay rooted. Even when I've stayed in one particular city, the urge to move all around is always there.
My home was, and in my heart, always will be South Philly. To me, there's nowhere like it in the world. It might as well be from another planet. We just do things different there. Whenever I tell people I'm from Philly, the reaction I get most is that look like the person just put something sour in their mouth.
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Blog postOnce I was asked, "Why do you write?". My first thought was that this was a rather odd question. Then it occurred to me that people who didn't write or create in any way might actually be curious. I managed to suppress the urge to answer "because it's there" and set about to try and explain why. This was my final answer:
What is best in life?To crush your enemies...to see them driven before you...to hear the lamentations of their women! Perfect if you are Conan. Not so
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The Stormrider: The Trials of the Clans ~ Book Two
May 30, 2014
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A New Dawn: The Trials of the Clans ~ Book Three
Jun 2, 2017
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