Category Archives: Fiction writing

Until US Tax Day (April 18th), I've lowered the price of the Kindle edition of A Flight of Storks and Angels to $2.99. http://www.amazon.com/Flight-Storks-Angels-ebook/dp/B004IEAER8/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text&qid=1300241020&sr=8-3 Enjoy!  

Found a very interesting blog entry called "MARKETING YOUR LITERARY NOVEL THROUGH INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING" by Christopher Meeks.

I spend more time on Facebook than I do on my own blog. Today, I'll see if I can share blog postings with my account on Facebook. If a success, expect more substantive content here soon! Robert    

I'm pleased to announce that the novel once known variously as Ice Ghoul Daze and Deadolescence (as in Dead plus Adolescence) has at last found its perfect publisher in Portland's Eraserhead Press and is now called Slaughterhouse High: A Tale … Continue reading →

It is a given of literary criticism that conflict is the basis of all story. The more conflict, the more engaged readers are, and the moire likely they will stay with you until the last page, full of fear and … Continue reading →

I have a confession to make. The enabling of that fucker Bush and the whole criminal crew has, for six years, put a crimp in my writing–or, rather, my lack of writing. Astounding, my love for this country when it’s … Continue reading →

Susie Bright excerpts this chapter from her book about writing erotica. Her opener: If you write an erotic story — or any story, for that matter — and never publish it, you will have done a very good thing. If … Continue reading →

Here in northern Colorado, a cold rain has fallen pretty much steadily for the last twenty-four hours.  It teeters on snow without quite getting there yet, but perhaps tonight, the weather gurus say. I chanced this morning upon this story … Continue reading →

If you’re at all in tune with the literary agent scene, you know Donald Maass‘s name. Through the good folks at Free Expressions, Don offers weekend and week-long workshops in writing the breakout novel. With lodging and meals included, these … Continue reading →

Writers are just like you and me.  They hate being pigeonholed. Take me, for example.  As the holder of a Ph.D. in English literature, I’m very widely read.  And I regard my work as literary fiction, which I’ve heard defined … Continue reading →