My partner shared a Wired.com article with me today about the strong role genre fiction is playing in the e-publishing world. This doesn’t really surprise me; in Hollywood you know that there are many genre subcultures with supernormal appetites for
Rough Plans
So the novel is going through a couple of editorial steps, which will take a couple of months. Lord knows, even with all the eyeballs on it we’ll probably still miss some punctuation thing in every single chapter. Got to
Family History – the Beginning of News
This is my first time through the whole book-writing/publishing process, but in the weeks ahead you should start to see a trickle of announcements/updates both here and on the website my partner is having built to promote the book. We
Birth Announcement
Nicholas Thurkettle is pleased to announce that, on May 1st, 2013, at 1:48pm, he became the proud father of a healthy baby novel – 422 manuscript pages long and weighing in at 92,427 words. He will allow the novel to
This Finishing Kick Has Left Me Woozy in the Head
I’m drafting the last chapter of the novel now. Actually, there’s an epilogue after, but I finished that awhile back. Next Wednesday is my due date; and I am still confident that I’ll make it. I’m writing in a weirdly-unconscious
Some truth
I’ve never been good at laying on a beach. Laying on a beach is like graduate-level sitting around; and I’m not even good at basic sitting around. That said – when I finish the first draft of this novel, I
Only way to circle the square
This has been the most lunchpail-y month I can remember when it comes to writing. I have my daily quota to hit on the novel, and parallel deadlines on a couple of screenplay re-writes, and for the last few weeks
Factory Whistle Blowing
It is rare that I have too much of my creative life penciled in for far in advance – the typical cycle of a stage play is about as far as it extends, and acting almost never takes up a
Read and enjoy
The on-line hub Subtle Fiction published my short story “The Staring Man” today. It was accepted so long ago I almost forgot it was happening. But now you can enjoy a strange evening in the company of Maurice, the night
Today’s reading
The new issue of A Few Lines magazine has officially dropped, featuring art, poetry, and my short story “How to Be Depressed in the Sunshine”. The draft they published is significantly-upgraded from the first draft; it was rejected a lot