Today was the original deadline day, but my editor is on vacation, so my new deadline is anytime before the morning of June 24 ( Read more... )

Less than one month until deadline! On that day the book must be delivered to the publisher -- photos, stories, source notes, bibliography, glossary, front and back matter, and intros. ALL of it ( Read more... )

"I stepped out of Mississippi when I was ten years old
With a suit cut sharp as a razor and a heart made of gold
I had a guitar hanging just about waist high
And I'm gonna play this thing until the day I die."

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I really should update this more than once a month or whatever ( Read more... )

"Okay, rule #1 as a horse-hauler: Don't flush your keys down the toilet at the truck stop! Fish them out! But don't flush."

Thanks, I'll remember that.

Guys, I've been running a little bit lately, and that's because I will have a book out in Spring 2016 ( Read more... )

I'm always in favor of good news, but I won't report on what exactly this news is until I get some stuff signed. But once that's done, you will certainly hear about it!  :)

In the meantime, I'm still writing stories and scanning in family pics and generally trying to keep up with kids and housework and weeds. (Actually I gave up on the weeds -- my ( Read more... )

The editor wrote back yesterday: I have some minor revisions to do on the sample chapter, and then the full proposal is going to the editorial board on July 22. Yikes ( Read more... )

I'm heading back to Hamline to be a grad assistant, so I'll be hitting the road here in a few days. Excited and nervous, both. I like to see my writing buds, but I do hate to leave my little family. The best damn family there ever was and I don't know how we could have come up with a better one without using supernatural powers. It's going to be ( Read more... )

Well, this morning I was a little late getting around, so I hurried out to the chicken pen to feed the hens. So I get the scratch and the feed and pour some in one dish, then went to hunt for the other dish. But I found a big gardner snake lying across the chicken yard, perfectly still. Its head is somewhere in the mess of bird netting I left in a ( Read more... )