If you feel a bit lost or anxious about how to teach narrative for the new core, especially stories, I think I can help. I’m an educator in the private sector and an award-winning novelist and short story writer. I’ve been teaching authors in various venues how to write for the last five years. I’ve been on
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It took me 33 hours, but I just finished reading through SERVANT and marking the manuscript up with the line edits I need to make. Holy smokes, folks, but it’s going to be a bigger edit than I originally thought. I knew I wanted to resequence chapters 1-8 back to the way I originally intended them. I
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After discussions with my agent and a few others, I’ve decided NOT to shop BAD PENNY to New York publishers. In fact, I’ve decided I’m not going to be shopping anything to NY for the next 12 – 18 months. My agent was certainly willing to take the property out, but given the average expected
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I finished draft three of BAD PENNY last week and have updated the progress bars. I’ve given the book to my agent, but because there are some contract terms that I’m unwilling to sign going forward, I need to make sure she’s comfortable representing me on it. I don’t want her doing a lot of work and bringing
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Curse of a Dark God, book 2 of the Dark God series, can now be published! That’s the short version. Here’s the long version that will probably not be what you expect. A little over nine months ago I initiated a contract termination with my publisher Tor Books. A few days ago Tor reverted the
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