Now that the first twelve chapters of “The Elect Stories” have been released for a bit, it seems like a fine time to talk about where the tale goes from here. After all, some of you who have finished reading these 12 have been asking for a while about...
A friend of mine who has diligently purchased every installment of “The Elect Stories” upon its release recently made a confession: he hasn’t actually started reading them yet, but he enjoys collecting them. Fair enough. You don’t even have to open them to see that Todd’s covers are super...
When I moved from Boston to Los Angeles in 1996, the plot of what would become “The Elect Stories” was already (more or less) fully formed. While many of the characters and most of the world-building details have changed over time, the plot was already clear to me from...
“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.” That’s Steven King’s advice to aspiring writers from his excellent book, “On Writing.” I...
I’ve always thought it would be fun to publish serialized adventure stories like they did in the old pulp magazines. That’s how some of my favorite authors, like Fritz Leiber, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Robert E. Howard, first spun their yarns. We’re talkin’ old school. The idea of publishing...
I enjoy working with other writers as a coach, editor or general sounding board. It’s something that I do quite a lot with my consulting service. As with any coach, I apparently have some favorite aphorisms that come up more often than others. One that comes up a lot...
The first chapter of “The Elect Stories” has been available for just a couple of days, but already I have been answering questions about my writing or, more particularly, one word of my writing. One word used repeatedly. “Why so many f-bombs?” Yes, Timriel, one of our protagonists, has...
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