I'm not huge into product endorsement unless I use the products. Last year I bought a recliner from La-Z-Boy on Black Friday. It was like cheap as hell. It's now damn near the centerpiece of this room. It's my reading chair. It's my eating chair whilst watching tv. It's my movie chair. When I was dog sitting for some pups, it was enjoyed by them as well. (Sasquatch is way too big.) If they didn't go bankrupt and can pull... Read More
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When I was working at an oil company as a teenager, I thought it was the height of folly to have your business based upon the luck of finding an oil pocket. That's all it was. This nothing little oil company stumbled around Alaska and found the motherlode and became a top 5 global player. What became Atlantic Richfield, then Arco, and then BP Arco. We had pictures of the old skyscraper (Richfield Tower) in downtown LA. There were these... Read More
Doing well on Spell Talker. I've said many times I would make more $$$ if I wrote faster. That's the paradigm of self-publishing: crank out books and wallpaper the internet. But I just can't do it. As I sit around and let stories marinate in my subconscious, I always come up with hooks that, IMHO, make the product vastly better. There's a lot of happy accidents in writing if you have the time to allow for accidents. I had mentioned... Read More
Being a creative is a pretty hard life. I'd guess about three times a week, I look around and tell myself, "I'm living the dream." Because I have a strong suspicion, based on vast amounts of historical data, that I won't be able to maintain this lifestyle forever and I'll look back on these years fondly. I'm a member of SFWA. When people ask what it is, I generally say it's a Sci-Fi/Fantasy writing group that has George R. R.... Read More