Drifting

It begins with the stars. Man spreads his wings and the stars are all that consumes. Blue fire–they taste the ashes and name them future as they step into the black expanse. It begins with the warmth. The floor is around and under and in them, and the soil even deeper still, and the taste [...]

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I wish upon an Indie

Author: a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc; the composer of a literary work. That wasn’t hard to define now was it? Ah, but these days the word is so much more complex, no? What sort of author are you, they ask. Genre? What does that tell us? No, sir, what I meant [...]

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Passing Fancy

It is a simmering summer in a sweltering land. I sit, somewhere between the fire and the horizon. There is no sound but the rustle of the page. Deep breaths. I am in the pages. The pages are in me. Drink them in. Names. Faces. Places. They wash over me and I am no longer [...]

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Relaxing the way to Creativity

Writers: booze is your friend. Well that got your attention, didn’t it? In truth, though, it may not be your friend, but definitely mine. Calm down, calm down. Please don’t call the parenting groups on me, and please don’t chalk this up to, “Oh dear, Galfie’s gone and gotten himself shnockered.” I am not about [...]

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Stop the Presses!

Stop the presses! Well…actually, no, crank that printer and keep the good times rolling: this little writer made the news today. The Hollow March and I took up joint space today in the pages of the Lansing City Pulse, in a full page article for which I’m eternally grateful. Catch the title of my upcoming [...]

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The Great Fantasy Extravaganza!

Just a matter of hours now until we bid old November its final farewell and roll out the rugs for sweet, icy December. You know, the season of giving. Also gravel—gravel that will probably demand a new windshield out of my car at some point. A windshield that will cost money…(see economic rant to come) [...]

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The Hollow March: Finalized Cover

Good cover art is one of the defining qualities of a novel. Without it, you simply lack that opening dose of eye-catching glory; that certain visual character that will (hopefully) draw the mind as surely as it draws the body near. Oh, money’s involved in there somewhere too, but we try not to think about [...]

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Sneak Peek: The Hollow March

Busy, busy, busy. It’s a busy month all around, I must say, and I’m not talking about National Novel Writing Month (though it’s certainly appropriate for this post). While many writers are out there right now scrambling toward 50,000 word goals, I’m caught dead in the midst of the marketing part of the publication program. [...]

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The Hollow March Begins

For two years, I have spoken here and there of a mysterious book in progress. Between bouts of poetry and short story fancies, I have penned, edited, and re-edited this work countless times, in my own attempts to reach that forever out of reach pinnacle of perfection we writers view as something akin to the [...]

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Winter is Coming

The day may still be a year away, but HBO’s upcoming adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s popular fantasy novel series A Song of Fire and Ice has never felt closer. Last week, a new teaser trailer (the first) was released, showing several scenes from the show and getting all trippy on us. It doesn’t reveal [...]

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