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Draft 2 of GET CUPID is Finished

It’s taken two and a half months longer than I wanted it to take, but the second draft of GET CUPID is now finished and sitting in the inboxes of my agents. Why did it take so much longer for me to write this book? Part of it has to do with length. The first draft was 100,000 words. The second draft added another 9,000 to that. TARNHELM ended up being 83,000 words or so, even in final draft form. So this book is a third longer than my last one. That means it’s longer to write, and longer to […]

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Revising: Breaking Through Inertia

Well, it took a month or two longer than I had wanted it to, but I’m finally to the point that I’m starting the second draft of GET CUPID. (A title that has grown on me, which I can never tell if that’s a good thing or not. You get used to a title, and it’s hard to tell if it’s good or not.) Anyway. One of the problems of being a part-time writer instead of a full-time writer is that I write in stages for the most part. There’s the plotting stage, where all I’m doing is plotting the

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What’s Your Favorite Con/Heist Flick?

I was going to write an in-depth post about how great my signing went last night, but I’ve felt like I’ve been hammering Vodnik a bit too hard lately, and I wanted to hold off on that and go in a different direction for today’s post. (Although I will say that the reading went really well. After all the wondering which section from the book I should read, I ended up just going with the first chapter. Original, I know. Thanks to all who came, and to the Farmington Public Library and Devaney Doak & Garrett for their help!) In

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Drive to Bangor

Spent the day in Bangor today for a work meeting. It was quite the beautiful drive–the leaves are changing, the sun was out, and there wasn’t much traffic. (Note–“not much traffic” in Maine equates to “no traffic” other places.) Nothing like driving on a pleasant day, my trusty iPod by my side, and a GPS in front of me to help if I get lost. Very nice. I haven’t given an update on writing progress in a while, so here’s a quick rundown. I’ve been working on a new book–one that I’m planning as the first of a seven part

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Writing Update

I realized I haven’t given a good update on where I am writing wise in a while. Not too terribly much has changed, I’m afraid. I have yet to hear back on the screenplay for Ichabod, or on the copy of Pawn of the Dead that’s been at the agent’s for a while. (Four months and change waiting so far on Ichabod, six and change on Pawn–but I’m a patient fellow.) In the meantime, I had been flitting from project to project, not really staying with any one long enough to make real headway–just wasn’t feeling it. I’m happy to

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