A couple weeks ago, I suggested people query their first novel , even though it would probably get rejected. I said this because I think ...

(I've been using my temporary insanity tag a lot lately. That's what querying will do to you, I guess.) So here are statistics on ...

I don't know about you, but when I read these stories, I'm always more interested in how long and difficult the journey was (it enco...

As of this morning (last night for you in the Americas), the first draft of Post-Apocalyptic Dragon-Riding Ninjas (with Mechs!) is finished...

A couple weeks ago, blog reader Lexi left this comment : I'm interested in why you guys aren't self-publishing. It needn't...

When I started writing Travelers , it was just to prove to myself that I could do it, I could finish a novel. Sometime during that process, ...

If you look at the status of my works in progress on the sidebar, you'll notice two things. First , I have changed Travelers ' statu...

Tony Jay is an English actor, best known for his voice acting in various cartoons and video games. He's played many roles, but it was a...

My previous postmortem was for the process of writing Travelers. It occurred to me there were lessons I learned in querying it as well. Al...

On Saturday I talked about what went right while writing Travelers . Today I have some things that went wrong. Not Enough Planning This is c...

In the gaming and business worlds (two of my past lives), we would do postmortems at the end of a project to determine what went right, what...

When I was writing Travelers , I usually only had a couple of documents open: the manuscript and an outline. I'd open other files as nee...

Under extreme duress , I've added the followers widget to my sidebar. Two of you have already noticed it. Feel free to make use of it, a...

A few months ago, I mused aloud on whether Travelers was too secular for the Christian market. Last weekend I found some interesting infor...

I've been looking at the Query Shark and the query project for good examples of what I was talking about the other day , and though I ...

Just got back from our visit to the States. Got 2 more rejections on Travelers queries. In October I plan to send out another transport of ...

I apologize for the lack of posts. We've been visiting the States, and I've gotten very little writing done, let alone blogging. It...

UPDATE (Feb 23, 2010): The first chapter of Travelers is no longer available online as it no longer represents my best work (far from it, i...

Microsoft Word is a lesson in feature creep . To be fair, I still use the version they made in 2002, but I've never known a company to ...

Writing a query letter is a skill. It's one I don't have yet, and I'm not as committed to acquiring that skill as I am to the s...