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Hero Poems: The Boy Scout

Moral and right A paragon of virtue Boring to the audience Booed more than the villain As if his goodness makes him bad Yet one is needed in the fold To be the balance For the brutal vigilantes And heroes … Continue reading

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Best Laid Plans Go Straight To Hell

I have no friggin’ clue what is going on.  The Compass Key is selling, but the Amazon ranking keeps dropping.  It’ll leap back onto the lists during slow periods and drop when it’s moving.  Typically I don’t pay attention, but … Continue reading

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W.I.P.- Monster ‘X’?

In one of the later volumes of ‘Legends of Windemere’, the readers are introduced to a new organization and wanderer type.  It showed up by accident because I couldn’t figure out why this guy and Luke kept fighting over monster … Continue reading

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Random Quotes from You

Confession: I don’t really get a lot of fan reactions beyond reviews and private emails telling me what I did wrong.  On the plus side, I still find out when some people reach the end of Prodigy of Rainbow Tower.  … Continue reading

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Meeting Your Characters: Cosplay

(Video taken off Youtube obviously.) This one might need a little more explanation and I’m only slightly aware of how to do that.  Mostly because I have no costume making skills and my one attempt was so bad that nobody … Continue reading

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Fan Art: Reader Interpretation

This might be more common for fantasy, science-fiction, and other action-based genres.  I have yet to hear about this being done for a romance book.  Anyway, if there’s something special about someone taking time to use their words to thank … Continue reading

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Joy of Fan Mail

Reviews are nice, but they come with a star rating, grade, or something.  This are great to have because they help with the book marketing and bring a smile to the author’s face . . . at least the good … Continue reading

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Rewards for an Author: Not by the Numbers

We all see posts by authors, myself included, about sales numbers, rankings, reviews, and other things that we accept with glee.  I know during a debut month, these things are very important.  They can make or break an author’s confidence.  … Continue reading

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Returning to Work Soon

The above is the closest to getting to a theater for the one weekend re-release.  No babysitter can be found and I don’t think bringing the 5-year-old to this movie would be a good idea.  For him and the other … Continue reading

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Influenced by Anime: Long Influence List

Last Saturday I mentioned some of the video games that inspired me.  Today I’m moving on to anime, which are Japanese cartoons. This is a longer list since I was introduced to anime around the same time I started creating … Continue reading

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