This past weekend my wife and I attended the When Words Collide writer's festival here in Calgary, Alberta. (Website is already starting to show the details for next year!) I'll admit to not having a lot of experience with conventions. I've attended exactly two in my entire life - ShevaCon 2005 and World Fantasy Con 2008 when it was here in Calgary. That said, I found that the WWC Festival was extremely well put together - there was none of the confusion over space, badges, panels or ... Read more »
General Writing
Starship’s Mage Episode 3 now on iTunes
And our final major retailer snuck in a few weeks late, but still unforgotten! Starship's Mage Episode 3 is now available on iTunes to round out the set! Happy reading! ... Read more »
Reflections on a Half-Complete Experiment
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. The whole Starship’s Mage project began sometime in fall of last year. It was, from the beginning, an experiment in two things: structure and self-publishing. Now that I’m sitting at the half-way point, with three of five Episodes published, I figure it’s a good time to look back at why we got here and how it’s succeeding so far. 1) Structure. My ... Read more »
Starship’s Mage Episode 3 Released!
Since all of the editing was already done, I didn't see a reason to wait a day to release Starship's Mage: Episode 3 after my cover artist got me the cover. The crew of the Blue Jay saved Ship’s Mage Damien Montgomery from a horrific punishment on the orders of a Hand of the Mage King of Mars. Wanted as criminals, they seek sanctuary in the UnArcana worlds. When the Captain is offered a contract by the secret enemies of the Mage King, Damien must ask himself: how far can a Mage trust ... Read more »
Editing, Revised Editions, and a release date!
This blog post was published on and may be out of date. Visit starshipsmage.com for current information on the Starship's Mage universe. It is a general strike against independently published authors (a crowd I am slowly coming to realize I'm part of) that the editing quality of the e-books we release is not the same as the editing quality of a professional purchased and edited novel. This is one of the reasons e-books from traditionally published authors still cost more than indie books: ... Read more »
Writing Process Blog Hop!
So Kate Larking, a fellow Calgarian writer and friend of mine from university, tagged me in the latest writing blog hop on writing processes. My responses was, more or less, "yay, a blog post I don't have to come up with the idea for!" (You can see why these things are successful with writers, as we all try and keep our blogs fresh to drive readers to our books.) These are also important questions to answer, and ones that give insight into the writer answering them, so off we go! 1. ... Read more »