Tales of the Whethermen

Sorry for the couple-week-long drought. Spring Break took a toll (daughter at home all week and I still had to meet work deadlines) and then last week followed that up with a bunch of work-related things I needed to complete. New fiction should be along by early in the week if not this weekend.

Deadlines have kept me from all my fiction writing this past week as we work to close the April issue of the magazine that pays my bills until someone discovers how much they need to give me a multiple-book publishing deal. However, in between work I haven’t been entirely idle. As you’ve likely noticed if […]

My fiction has a tendency to expand beyond my original intentions, particularly when I do lengthy multi-part series. Inevitably, as I go along, I find the need to add characters and scenes that had not occurred to me early in the process. Or I find that writing certain scenes out takes many more words than […]

So, partly just a random post to break things up between chapters (the next chapter of “The Gathering Storm” will likely be up before the weekend), but also because I’d like to find out if anyone has any desires/wishes/etc. in terms of any characters to tackle in one of my next stand-alone short stories. Anyone […]

As I continue to write new Tales of the Whethermen stories, it becomes increasingly hard to remember how everything fits together, and increases the chances that I will write something that is totally out of sequence with everything else, thus messing up continuity. So, I went through the effort over the past few days to […]

So, here’s a chance for you to directly influence or inspire me here. I have a list of half-formed (and sometimes less than that) ideas that have spawned many short stories here, as well as some specific scenes or recurring themes in the saga of “The Gathering Storm.” Many of these notes and ideas I’ve […]

I’ve let a lot of notes pile up about the Whethermen universe, so in addition to getting new chapters out for “The Gathering Storm” and miscellaneous one-off stories, I’ll be doing a lot of updating of the info pages for this blog, adding characters, bios, background info, history, etc. Prepare to be overwhelmed with everything […]

Tried this via Twitter without much success, but since a fair number of people have passed through to check out the latest piece of fiction, let me see if I can persuade you to comment here on something for me while I work on the next chapter of “The Gathering Storm.” While I write this […]

I apologize for the long pause in writing. It is NOT because the blog has died or my interest has waned; only that I had to deal with some serious shit that if not dealt with would mean the collapse of my life all around me. Plus, when not trying to save my daily existence […]

New chapter of “The Gathering Storm” is almost done. In fact, it will probably be too long for one posting. That technically means that I should probably post part of it now, but I want to finish one or two more scenes just to make sure I break it in a good spot. Since it’s […]