Dan's Sci-fi & Fantasy Blog

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...

Howdy, I’ve had one hell of a great writing weekend. The Willamette Writers Conference over the weekend was perhaps the best one I’ve...

Howdy, Well, I’m going to be a busy bee this weekend. Willamette Writers Conference. This won’t be my first rodeo, but I haven’t been to...

Howdy, It wasn’t that long ago I said I had officially started my new WIP. Well, there’s some good news bad news on that. I had started...

Howdy, You’d have to be living totally off the grid not to have caught wind of all the hoopla surrounding the 50th anniversary of the...

Howdy, Lately, I’ve made some excellent progress on improving my novel’s synopsis. No secret. Just revise, revise, and revise some more....

Howdy, I had an excellent start to July in my writerly world. My latest sci-fi short story The Wall was published last week over at...

Great June so far for having short stories accepted and published. My sci-fi short story Sabotage went live the other day over at Altered...

Just found out I’ve had another story accepted, this time my sci-fi short story Sabotage at Altered Reality Magazine. June is turning out...