Happy Birthday to Insatia

Happy Birthday to my wife insatia!!!

We're going to the Ballard Cupcake Royal at 3PM today in Seattle to celebrate!!!!

If you are free, come on down!!!!

Happy Birthday to Insatia

Happy Birthday to my wife insatia!!!

We're going to the Ballard Cupcake Royal at 3PM today in Seattle to celebrate!!!!

If you are free, come on down!!!!

Weekend Roundup

Last weekend, I attended NWRE. It was awesome. Most of the weekend will be chronicled in the next Tales of the Miscreant Monkey Crew article.

However, there was a special occurrence that I wanted to discuss here. I was asked by the NWRE staff to assist with a writer's panel. I have thus far avoided writer's panels when invited as I've always felt "like an egg" to quote Stranger in a Strange Land.

The panel seemed to go very well and those that attended seemed to appreciate what I had to say. The other guests were Jason Carl (who wrote a lot of the Mind's Eye Theater material for White Wolf) and novelist Ree Soesbee. I am not too proud to admit that I learned a great deal from my fellow panelists.

This weekend, I needed a break. Four days of wild parties, hard-core gaming, and late nights wore on my constitution. This week at work I felt exhausted. I went to bed early all week.

Friday, I watched Stargate Universe and then napped. I've really started to enjoy this series. It is everything that Star Trek Voyager could have been.

I woke early on Saturday and then visited the Half-Price Books Warehouse Sale. I secured a number of paperbacks and history books that I have been craving. And then I had lunch with Mario.

I returned home and spent the next six hours writing. I managed to make some progress on my magical pirate story titled "The Elixir of Tears."

And then, completely by surprise, I started my next novel I had been having trouble figuring out to tell the story in the universe I've been working on for almost a year and a half. Once I decided that I could simply split the novel into books ala The Lord of the Rings, everything else fell into place.

And so, I'm very glad that I've finally started my Mystical Rome novel. I think the title might be The Soothsayer's Stratagem. I'm not certain if that works or not.

Weekend Roundup

Last weekend, I attended NWRE. It was awesome. Most of the weekend will be chronicled in the next Tales of the Miscreant Monkey Crew article.

However, there was a special occurrence that I wanted to discuss here. I was asked by the NWRE staff to assist with a writer's panel. I have thus far avoided writer's panels when invited as I've always felt "like an egg" to quote Stranger in a Strange Land.

The panel seemed to go very well and those that attended seemed to appreciate what I had to say. The other guests were Jason Carl (who wrote a lot of the Mind's Eye Theater material for White Wolf) and novelist Ree Soesbee. I am not too proud to admit that I learned a great deal from my fellow panelists.

This weekend, I needed a break. Four days of wild parties, hard-core gaming, and late nights wore on my constitution. This week at work I felt exhausted. I went to bed early all week.

Friday, I watched Stargate Universe and then napped. I've really started to enjoy this series. It is everything that Star Trek Voyager could have been.

I woke early on Saturday and then visited the Half-Price Books Warehouse Sale. I secured a number of paperbacks and history books that I have been craving. And then I had lunch with Mario.

I returned home and spent the next six hours writing. I managed to make some progress on my magical pirate story titled "The Elixir of Tears."

And then, completely by surprise, I started my next novel I had been having trouble figuring out to tell the story in the universe I've been working on for almost a year and a half. Once I decided that I could simply split the novel into books ala The Lord of the Rings, everything else fell into place.

And so, I'm very glad that I've finally started my Mystical Rome novel. I think the title might be The Soothsayer's Stratagem. I'm not certain if that works or not.