Wartooth Writer

So earlier today I hurt my back helping a friend change a tire. That's what happens sometimes. As soon as I can get some pain management sometime tomorrow I hope, I'll be back. For now, goodnight, today has to wait.

I see a lot of us talk about isolation, isolation and isolation when trying to focus and write productively. For myself, I make use of the alone time to work sure, but I don't get my best work done sitting in a dark room someplace listening to bossa nova jams and sipping wine with a dim lamp and a creeky chair. This might not work for you, but maybe if you don't like what you're putting down in isolation, my approach might help. So I have a few trusted friends, contributors, lets call them beta readers. Trusted to keep details confidential and avid consumers of work like my own (though I'm genre breaking and paving my own way). Yesterday was a beautiful day out so instead of isolation, I set out with this trusted friend, my paramour, my muse really and enjoyed a leisurely meal in a favorite restaurant with good light and a serving staff that appreciates I'm going to sit at my table for hours. Over appetizers and while pondering a main course, drinks and desserts I...

We manage ourselves, not time. Commitments seem to be without mercy when you're trying to get some good work writing done. I looked at my calendar Monday it looked pretty wide open. The next thing I know, a friend calls for a ride, at the event I drop him off at, another asks for yet another favor. Sure I say, I'm free that day. Until my lawyer calls and needs to have a sit that gets moved from the morning to the night. The change curtailed a pleasurable leisurely morning with my paramour. I thought to get some contract project work done, and behold I managed to accomplish that. I made it to my writers guild meetup and picked up another task there. More legal appointments. Then a new project demand. I haven't written anything I wanted yet this week. I'm watching the clock - it says its time for a nap, then dinner before a grueling six hour trek into DC beltway traffic and back. I look at my calendar for next week - it looks pretty wide open too, but I nonetheless wo...

Hello everyone, as you may have seen my latest work is available on amazon. Find it HERE. it looks like this:   I think it's beautiful, special thanks to my cover artist Nikos Pastais who provided use of the mesmerizing image for free. Writing the book was agony, I've it says on the amazon page section 'from the author', but it was also a great learning experience. What I'm learning is the writing was the easy part. As a self-published author I'm having to learn the business end, something I neglected when writing Sigrunn's Saga . It's not that I didn't believe in the Saga, I just had a lot of other things happening at the time. Just getting it as far as I did was a monumental achievement. One day it'll be know as a good early work for me. I still may be aggressively marketing it when I release the second edition with bonus material from the upcoming sequel. But back to the new book. Between paying a professional editor, budgeting for...

Hello everyone, this is the first post of the new blog. We're consolidating the previous blogs here and will move the old blog content into the archive section. We're changing focus, moving from a single book focus to discussion of the complete bibliography, works in progress and the process in general. While we will still discuss Sigrunn and the rest of the Wartooth Clan, expect to see Nameless, Eric and Debt talked about here as well. There are new heroes, villains and monsters to be on the look out for. We have a monster mystery in the making, something akin to Jaws. Besides the sequel to "Salem's Son", working title "Harvester of Tomorrow" we have a second edition of Ox and Scorpio in the works. Sigrunn is getting a sequel and getting a re-imaging beginning with Ingwie in the first person. The project I'm most excited about though is pitching Harvester of Tomorrow (HoT) starring Eric (of "Salem's Son") and Debt, my cosmic 'rea...