Calendar updates

By John Brown | May 23, 2015 - 4:33 pm |May 23, 2015 News - updates on books, events, appearances, etc.

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I’ve added a number of entries to the calendar, including three conferences I plan on attending. I know I’ll be presenting at the first two. The title and description of the League of Utah Writers presentation are: TITLE: The Secret to Getting Story Ideas DESCRIPTION: How to stop generating great story ideas by accident and start →

Awful Intent Update: Chapter 26

By John Brown | May 19, 2015 - 10:26 pm |May 19, 2015 News - updates on books, events, appearances, etc.

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I have now moved from the struggle into the resolution. It’s all down hill from here. I expect the novel to be 70-80k words. The shortest novel I’ve written yet. But I always seem to add on most of my revisions. I hope to keep it shorter, but we’ll see. Now you may ask, hey, how →

Awful Intent Update: Chapter 23

By John Brown | May 8, 2015 - 11:00 pm |May 8, 2015 News - updates on books, events, appearances, etc.

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You’ll notice that the progress meter for Awful Intent is slowly rising. I just finished the first draft of chapter 23. The meter says I’m almost 75% of the way done. But I’m thinking I might need an extra six chapters to finish this tale. We’ll see. The number of chapters I estimate I’ll have →

Awful Intent update: Chapter 20

By John Brown | April 11, 2015 - 4:30 pm |April 11, 2015 News - updates on books, events, appearances, etc.

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Just finished chapter 20. It’s been a rough month for writing, but I believe life has settled down a bit, and I should be able to get the time in that I need. I hate giving targets publicly because the last time I did that I just missed and missed and missed. So we’ll stay →

Awful Intent Update: finished 17

By John Brown | March 21, 2015 - 4:21 pm |March 21, 2015 News - updates on books, events, appearances, etc.

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I just finished chapter 17. Our hero and the pretty but no-nonsense Sheriff Hood are now in majorly deep doo-doo. Which is all exactly what we need for a cracking good story. Wish I could share more (grin).