

What Choice Have I Got?
Photo Copyright William R. Cares This will not be a post for the faint of heart. Let me be clear about that from the beginning. I have...


Up From the Ashes
You may have heard that I and my manuscript were recently dropped by my agent. I discovered that my book had been roundly rejected by a...


Out on Submission : A half year and counting...
My fantasy manuscript has been out on submission for six months now. That's 182.5 days, or 4,380 hours. More than two seasons have passed...
Not what I was expecting...
Since my last post in August I have started physical therapy for a shoulder issue. This has literally been an impingement on my plans. I...
Straight talkin' (to myself)
You know that feeling when you get a delightful surprise? When something wonderful happens that you had been waiting for for a VERY long...
An excerpt from my Work in Progress (WIP)
PROLOGUE “I was not there when I died, but she remembers everything. These words are my words, though I never spoke them. The one who saw...
An Open Letter to Ursula K. Le Guin
How to begin?... Dear Ms. Le Guin? Dear Friend? Dear Master? Dear Teacher? Dear Intrepid Traveler? Dear Guide to the Sacred Worlds of...
Limbo is NOT just a dance! Or, why waiting is so hard.
I am beginning to feel like all that excitement about getting an agent was some sort of a dream. In just one week I went from no...
My Epic Quest for a published book: My "winning" query letter, or what he read to open the
I am offering this letter to the web to help aspiring writers to write a more effective query letter: Dear (insert agent's name here), In...
My Epic Quest for a published book: OMG! I Have an Agent!
As you may know, if you have been following the whirlwind last 7 seven days, I have been blogging about my quest for the fabled "Big...