This week's trip was to the White Pines Forrest State Park in Oregon, Illinois -- I swear, Illinois has a city named after every state. According to my mother, I went there 48 years ago for a camping trip. Considering I was only two, I don't remember much. On this trip, I spent 3.5 hours… Continue reading White Pines Forrest and a quick stop at Lowden
The rest of my year will be planned for maximum effect. Sundays will consist of grocery shopping and writing. WRITING I will reedit and redesign my books. The great thing is that it consists of either editing or reformatting the manuscript. Editing takes brainpower, while reformatting is a passionless task. Whichever one I feel like… Continue reading The Plan
I have begun my editing project in earnest. Currently working on Chapter 10, I have put some spit and polish on the book's rough spots. There have been two major themes. 1. Solidifying what Rowan knows at various points and conveying them to the readers and 2. not being such a goddamn pussy about the… Continue reading Goodnight Irene 2.0
At some point, I'm going to do some light editing on my old books (including an additional chapter at the end of The 5 False Suicides and a floor map for Goodnight Irene) and redo all my covers. My first books are embarassingly large. The new ones will all be 5x8, the smallest I can… Continue reading Possible Future Project.
I've put the writing of my book on hold. And that's okay. I published two books in a one-year span--It's About Impossible Crime and The Architecture of Murder. (Some might argue this is cheating because it's basically nine short stories, I would argue that both collections are the longest books I've published.) I don't have… Continue reading No Writing to Report
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