That Marketing Thing

I'm not a new author.  I've had two books published by a traditional publisher.  I was a great hit, locally.  Sold lots of books around the area.  Didn't sell many books anywhere else though. My publisher, though he tried hard, just wasn't able to market my books as well as they needed.  He was a …

Pray for Rain

I'm putting together a group of poems for a new book and ran across this one.  It was printed in Upcountry eMagazine a couple years ago.  Thought I'd share: Pray for Rain Bone white breasts,your milk has dried.Where will your children feed?The corn has curledlike pineapple sticks;     There will be no     bread for supper. Our …

Writing a Novel is like Driving at Night

Well, now that the agent edits are done on another work, I'm back at work on the second Sentient.  I was calling it The Ancients, but the further I got into it, the less it fit.  Now it's tentatively titled, Sentient: Insurrection.  We'll see if it grows into this title. I'm finally getting a sense …