I like my comfort zone. And I tend to stay there a lot, writing what I know and enjoy. I’m busy with something familiar and easy all the time. It feels safe. Almost a year ago I looked at the stack of nearly finished manuscripts I’d accumulated over the past ten years and knew I […]
Steampunk Holmes
13 Classics Re-Imagined: Noble Beast Roars Again
It was back in April and May of 2012 that I wrote a couple of blog posts about the Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus multi-channel publishing project from Noble Beast, which was seeking financial backing through Kickstarter. You may remember that campaign was a huge success. Noble Beast creator, Richard Monson-Haefel, just completed delivery […]
Revisiting Goals: A Chance to Start Over
The mid-year mark came and went, almost without notice. But I caught it sneaking past from the corner of my eye, and realized it’s time to revisit my goals. I know you’re thinking I’m really overdoing it with the goals theme. But it’s important to your writing career to know where you stand. I’ll go […]
Day Fifteen – Serve Your Fellow Writers; Serve the World
This is my favorite of the 15 Habits of Great Writers. Writing is my gift. I’m grateful every day for the ability to put words together in a way that entertains, inspires and motivates people. My writing provides the opportunity to serve other writers, my community, and the planet through sharing causes of interest to […]
Re-Imagining Characters: Finding Familiar Faces in New Places
It was exciting to watch the Steampunk Holmes: Legacy of the Nautilus Kickstarter counter climb from around 57% funding to 147% in the last 50 hours of the drive. With the additional monies, Richard Monson-Haefel hopes to bring the second book of the series, Steampunk Holmes: Frankenstein (working title) to readers a year earlier than […]
Helping Shape a New Concept for Books: Final Hours of the Steampunk Holmes Kickstarter Campaign
How do you best absorb information? Are you a hands-on person, needing to disassemble an engine on the workbench in order to understand how it works? Do you reach greater understanding when you hear the mechanic describe the flow of fuel through the injector to the engine? Or, do you want to see the directions […]
Kickstart a Writer’s Dream: You Can Be Steampunk Holmes' Angel
What if the book you are currently reading was fully interactive? What if you could touch a scene in your book, and see it come to life as a movie? Or examine a detailed drawing of the equipment and weapons in use? What if your book spoke with an English accent? What if a map of old London […]