Dan's Scifi & Fantasy Blog

Howdy, I've encountered on the Internet and heard on the news scads of comments that boil down to this: I never guessed I'd be here five years ago. Every tim...

Howdy, I continue to be happy with having my YA WIP looked at by a professional editor. There are two significant advantages to having this done. 1. In my e...

Howdy, Now that I'm a soon to be published novelist, I've discovered something. I need to be serious about my platform. Whatever that is, exactly...??? I know...

Howdy, A few months ago, I decided to take the plunge and hire an editor to take a look at my YA WIP. I did this for several reasons. This being before Solar...

Howdy, Social distancing measures are extended in my neck of the woods. I think that's a good thing, overall. Social distance for another month or catch the ...

Howdy, If you heard some hollering last week, that was me. I received the most awesome news that Solarflame, my debut fantasy novel, has been picked up for p...

Howdy, More fantastic news. I have short story that will be published this month over at Swords and Sorcery Magazine. This is another tale that started off a...

Howdy, Just a quick note of positivity. The last couple of weeks have been pretty fantastic for me on the acceptance front. I just had a flash story called S...

Howdy, Hopefully, with everything going on in the world, you've found time to read and study published works. I've been reading steadily, but no more than us...

Howdy, Hopefully, quarantining isn’t draining your creative energy. Personally, I’m lucky. The creative juices continue to flow unabated. On the downside, de...

Howdy, I hope this post finds you in good spirits, despite the global pandemic. The other day, my sanity took a blow. The governor of my fine state announced...

Howdy, Does the plague outbreak seem like something writers have been training for their entire lives? Long hours of self-isolation…etc., etc. Maybe not. Sti...

Howdy, OK. I finally decide to take the plunge and have an editor look at one of my manuscripts (the YA fantasy to be specific). A good deal available throug...

Howdy, My YA WIP is now complete. It's been through several rounds of editing, so hopefully, it's just down to the spit shine to make it sparkle. The manuscr...

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 past few days, though...

Howdy, I write this during my final hours of single fatherhood. In the wee hours of tomorrow morning, my wife will return from a mini-vacation she took with ...

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 like knockout 50,000...

Lately, I've been devouring YA. I’ve read some exceptional YA over the past month or so. This is great since my current WIP is a YA fantasy. Tool of War by P...

Howdy, Another November rolls around, another month of NaNoWriMo. Several people from my writing group are participating this year. I’m not in the sense that...

Howdy, After reading On Writing by Stephen King and discovering the master storyteller doesn’t plan (most of the time, anyway), I started thinking about the ...