Wall of Flame Challenge

Imagine going into a Chinese restaurant. Now imagine that they have a sign saying that if you do this certain little challenge, you get the meal for free, your picture on the wall, and a fifty dollar gift certificate.  Your picture goes on the Wall of Flames… Sounds neat, huh?    LIES!!! I’m a sucker [...]

How to Write a Story That Rocks Workshop – The Video

So… how do you write stuff?  Good question.  Watch this: http://johndbrown.com/2010/02/how-to-write-a-story-that-rocks/ Or you can go direct to Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8B94E8B54E235F72 A big thanks to Stephen Nelson for recording this and putting it together. At LTUE, author John Brown and I did a 2 hour seminar called “How to Write a Story That Rocks”.  This was the [...]

Starting to click, writing update

My final revised version of Monster Hunter Vendetta is pretty much done. I’m just going to wait until this weekend so that I can look at it one last time with a good solid time block, and then it is off to Toni.  She had me make a few small changes, all of which were [...]

Pwned

Okay, this post is by request of publishing mastermind, Toni Weiskopf, who has been doing the final edit of my next book.  In MHV I have a creature who is hopelessly addicted to the internet use the word “Pwn” or “Pwned”.  Is Pwn too obscure to use in a contemporary action fantasy monster-killing novel?  Would [...]

LTUE Report

I got home from LTUE today and I am bushed. Three days of writers talking about writing, mixed in with writer’s schmoozing, book signings, and more panels, jeez, no wonder my brain is fried. My first LTUE was last year, and I was a “participating guest”. This year I was a “special guest”, which basically [...]

LTUE Schedule for next weekend

If you like writing, want to be a writer, or just like to listen to writers babble, you need to go down to BYU next weekend.  LTUE is awesome and it is free. That’s hard to argue with. Last year I was a guest, this year I’m a “Special” Guest.  I think that means that [...]

We’re moving

A personal update, we just accepted an offer on our house and will be moving.  I’m not going to post on the internet to where exactly we’re moving, but it is a small town up in the mountains.  I can’t quite shoot off my back porch there as there will still be neighbors, but I [...]

Come and see me at Authorpalooza today in Sandy

Today is the Authorpalooza mega-book-signing at the Sandy Barnes & Noble from 1-3.  I’ll be there along with 30 other authors.  So if you’re in the area, drop by and say hi. We accepted an offer on the house today, so I should really be out house shopping, but that’s how much I love you [...]

Cover art for MHV

Commentary from our friends in Europe:

I just got this posted to the HK mega-thread.  Author : Blubby Comment: You guys are funny. “Fanboys” and people who are afraid that they cant buy guns as Civilians complaining about marketing of HK? Guys, what you do think whos doing the “marketing” for america? Not german people do that! That is the american [...]