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Being a writer, I don’t often have “typical” days.  And that’s been typical lately. On Saturday, we went to see Vertical Horizon in concert in the SkySox stadium in Colorado Springs.  I first met Matt Scannell, the front man for Vertical Horizon, last November backstage at the Rush “Clockwork Angels” concert in Anaheim, through our […]

Anyone who knows my work or reads this blog is familiar with how much I write.  I work on several novel projects at once (and maybe a short story or two), at various stages of completion.  This summer, though, thanks to prior commitments and moving publication schedules, I found myself in a collision course of […]

After finishing and delivering three novels in two months, I was going stir crazy.  I wanted to get out, go hiking, get exercise, challenge myself. I’ve already climbed every one of the Fourteeners (54 peaks in Colorado over 14,000 ft in elevation). In sixteen years of living in Colorado I’ve climbed at least one 14er […]

A few months ago I wrote a post called “The Series Death Spiral and Other Unfortunate Realities of Publishing,” about how chain bookstores can kill a series by ordering to the net.  (You can read that post here.) One of my readers responded with, “That’s why I indie publish my own books, because then I’m […]