Monthly Archives: February 2014

My editor and I are about half way through the final editing of “Tropical Rage.” the third in the Jack Stevens and Amy Larkin Caribbean series. We are shooting for an Amazon publishing date in late April. If you have … Continue reading →

There was a time when writers just wrote. That’s the hard but fun part. Editing is the onerous and uninspired job that OTHER people used to do. No more. Those of us who write for, and publish on, Amazon are … Continue reading →

The greatest complaints I read in Amazon reviews of books are for “typos,” “misspelled words,” and “bad grammar.” There is just no excuse for misspelled words or bad grammar, but there is an explanation for it, I think. And that … Continue reading →

We are forging ahead on “Tropical Rage,” the third in the series of Jack Steven’s Adventures. My editor and I are working closely in hopes of making this first edition as error free as humanly possible. However, the very process … Continue reading →

I really do appreciate the four and five star reviews I get for my novels and stories on Amazon. I am grateful because someone took the time to write them. The nit-picking critical reviews, I don’t appreciate nor do I … Continue reading →

Working like a Busy Beaver, along with the editor to get “Tropical Rage” ready for ePublishing in the spring. This one is going to be as error free as we can possibly make it. Hope to have it on Amazon … Continue reading →

There are a lot of things I don’t understand. And since they don’t seem to bother anyone else it makes me think I’m crazy. For instance, my home is surrounded by 80 to 90 foot pines and hardwood trees. In … Continue reading →

You’ve seen those novels, haven’t you, that have alternate endings? You can choose the ending you like best. I’ve never quite understood that, but I can see the advantage of it to an author. For example, the biggest criticism of … Continue reading →

You know one of the hardest things about being a writer? Let me give you an example. You’ve spent a month writing a really great five or six page chapter. It has verisimilitude. The characters are “real,” they speak like … Continue reading →