Check me out on Wattpad!

So I signed up recently for a site called Wattpad, which is basically like Deviantart for writers.  Once you have a profile, you can post stories or chapters or excerpts, and other members can read your stuff, comment on it, or vote it up.  It’s designed especially for smartphones, so if you have one, that’s… Continue reading Check me out on Wattpad!

Trope Tuesday: Schrödinger’s Gun

The world of a fictional universe isn’t fixed beyond what the author has revealed to the reader. This is what happens when Schrödinger’s cat gets hold of Chekhov’s gun.  There are a whole lot of interesting and potentially useful plot points lying around, but the writers are pantsing it as they go, playing a game… Continue reading Trope Tuesday: Schrödinger’s Gun

Thoughts on serials and ebook pricing

I’m going to do something potentially dangerous and discuss pricing strategies in a rather candid way.  I may risk turning off some of my potential readers, especially the ones who don’t like shorter works, but I want to be as open and transparent as I can, since I figure it’s only fair, especially to someone… Continue reading Thoughts on serials and ebook pricing

Trope Tuesday: Planetville (aka Adventure Planets)

Adventure towns…IN SPAAACE!!! Seriously, that’s the best way to describe it.  In Westerns and TV serials, the heroes travel from town to town, with a new adventure in each place.  Well, in science fiction, we don’t hop towns, we hop planets.  Why?  Because we can. Unfortunately, since planets and towns are actually pretty different kinds… Continue reading Trope Tuesday: Planetville (aka Adventure Planets)

Star Wanderers: four novelettes or a novel in four parts?

So my plans to publish Star Wanderers have run into a little snag…Part II was rejected for distribution to iTunes, Sony, and other retailers, with an order to unpublish both parts and republish them as one work.  The order probably came because of this clause in the Smashwords Terms of Service: 9d. You further warrant… Continue reading Star Wanderers: four novelettes or a novel in four parts?

Star Wanderers: Part I is now available!

That’s right–the first part of my novel Star Wanderers is now available on Kindle and Smashwords for $2.99!  Barnes & Noble, iTunes, and Kobo editions should be coming out shortly (though I’m waiting for Kobo to launch their direct publishing platform, which may take a while). This is the first part of a four part novel, but… Continue reading Star Wanderers: Part I is now available!

Yesterday’s Gone: Episode One by Sean Platt & David Wright

Imagine you wake up tomorrow, and find out that everyone around you has vanished.  Well…not everyone.  But the ones who are still around claim to see strange things that you can’t see.  And then, you get an eerie feeling of a presence…something dangerous, something coming at you right now.  And then, things get really weird… Yesterday’s… Continue reading Yesterday’s Gone: Episode One by Sean Platt & David Wright

Trope Tuesday postponed again

Sorry, but no Trope Tuesday post this week.  Long story short, more internet problems–I’m blogging right now from the McDonald’s on Tch’avtch’avadze Street.  Since my battery’s running out, this is going to have to be a quick post. I suppose I should ask, though: what tropes do you want me to cover in the future?… Continue reading Trope Tuesday postponed again