Dan's Sci-fi & Fantasy Blog

Howdy, The new year of reading is a bit more eclectic for me than usual, considering my typical fare is fantasy, science-fiction, and...

Howdy, 2020 is starting out right for me writing-wise. Just last week, I was totally pumped to learn my sci-fi horror Second Date was...

Howdy, So, that darn query letter, eh? Well, I'm pretty pleased at the moment. Since revamping my query letter a few weeks back and...

Howdy, Time to make those New Year writing resolutions! First, I'll look back on my resolutions from 2019. Finish the Arduous Edit -...

Howdy, Exciting news! This morning I finished the rough draft of my current WIP, a YA fantasy. This is really amazing, I knocked out this...

Howdy, Lately, I've been enthralled by my current WIP. It is still going well. I continue to be super pleased with my progress. For the...

Howdy, I write this during my final hours of single fatherhood. In the wee hours of tomorrow morning, my wife will return from a...

Howdy, How did your NaNoWriMo go? Mine went swimmingly, thank you very much. As I've mentioned before, I didn't try to do anything crazy...

Howdy, Happy Turkey Day Eve! Is there anything worse than trying to market your manuscript to agents and editors, etc.? Probably not....

Howdy, As NaNoWriMo passes its midpoint, I continue to be pleased with my progress on my YA WIP. So far in November, I’ve knocked out 8...

Howdy, All the wild news from the impeachment hearings to the latest school shooting has reminded me of a sci-fi short story called War...

Howdy, Another November rolls around, another month of NaNoWriMo. Several people from my writing group are participating this year. I’m...

Howdy, Just in time for Halloween, Second Date, my first horror short story, is out in the Isolation Anthology from Fantasia Divinity...

Howdy, I'm super pleased with my writing progress this September. I wrote approximately 20,000 words. 20,000! That's quite a bit for me....

Howdy, Right now, it feels like I have tons of iron in the writing fire. My new YA WIP proceeds at breakneck speed, which is totally...

Howdy, Well, it feels like it’s been a few weeks since I’ve written a post. I guess it has been, my last blog entry was on August 25th....

Howdy, Planning for my new novel-length WIP is going great with a capital G. I mean really fantastic. Fast, smooth, no hiccups. That...

Howdy, This is the first of a little bit more in-depth writeup of my time at the Willamette Writers Conference. I’ll start off with...

Howdy, Received some nice news today. I just had my sci-fi short story, The Trial, published over at Ansible. Pretty exciting. As is...

Howdy, This is the first of what will likely be several posts about the Willamette Writers Conference. This year’s conference (2019) is...