Unstoppable Mindset Podcast with Michael Hingson
I’ve mentioned Mike Hingson on this blog before and am still serializing my interview of him. He’s a very generous and insightful guy. Generous for asking me to be on his podcast and then agreeing to be interviewed by me later. His podcast episode with me is now live at the usual outlets. It was…Read More
Book Review: Tooth and Nail by Jessica Raney
I picked this book up at an Indie Book Fair on a hot, sweaty day. It was at Copperfield’s Books in Houston. I like to support the other authors, and Raney recommended this as a starter. It sat in the stack on my nightstand, patiently awaiting its turn. Other books in the stack had disappointed….Read More
Imposter Syndrome
They say it represents “all Canadians” who have worked in the Space Program. But it’s really Chris Hadfield. I struggle a bit with Imposter Syndrome – the feeling that I don’t really deserve the success I’ve had, and that I’m not as smart as some other people believe. It started when I was 29 and…Read More
The Importance of Submission
Don’t get your perverted hopes up. This post is not about *that* kind of submission. Nor is it about Mixed Martial Arts. It’s about that tiny little button you must click in order to complete your book’s acceptance by Amazon. Submit. I blew it. For the last week, I’ve been cursing Amazon and their tardiness…Read More
Book Review: Grain Brain by David Perlmutter, MD
A few years ago, my mom died of Alzheimer’s. Her brother had passed from the same cause a couple of years prior to that, and my mom was already to the point that she didn’t really understand that her brother had died. My grandfather also suffered from the same disease. Since then, I’ve participated in…Read More
10 Questions With Amani Jesu
I’ve stalked you on Amazon since reading Eliana-Who-Sees-Us. You have a very interesting background. One of the things I promise readers is that I won’t ask authors the stock questions, so here goes! I know I saw The Key to Rebecca as a made-for-TV movie, and maybe there were glimpses of belly dancers in other…Read More
Book Review: They Cancelled the DJ by Freddy Cruz
This book is not my normal Sci-fi offering. I met Freddy Cruz through an event my former publicist set up. I discovered that Freddy has done a lot of voice work in radio and was expanding into audio books. That piqued my interest since I was looking to push SPARK into audio. We chatted a…Read More
SPARK Second Edition: Cover Reveal
The journey to this point has been a bit longer than I anticipated. I ran this as a competition through 99designs and was very pleased with the results. One major lesson learned for the next time will be to make the competition “private” so that artists can’t see each other’s work. Some artists were very…Read More
Book Review: Eliana-Who-Sees-Us by Amani Jesu
For Eliana, life’s big adventures are about to begin. She’s 18 and about to move to Chicago with her boyfriend. It’s Thanksgiving. He doesn’t show up for dinner. Then things go downhill. Instead of moving in with her boyfriend, Eliana moves in with a friend. A good friend. The kind of friend who has your…Read More
Thoughts on Duty
I came across a line that resonated with me in a poem by Anne Angel: Commitment. (Contained in the book pictured to the right.) “It’s knowing your duty and doing your job and dulling your pain and stumbling on. It’s making a mess and maybe a difference, it’s trying to be more or to stir…Read More