The one thing about writing (about any art, actually) is that you have to do it. You have to sit down and hammer it out and fill pages with words, canvases with paints, sketchbooks with sketches, air with notes. Every second you spend actively doing your art makes you exponentially better. The rest is just patience, fortitude and an unwavering belief in unseen ports in consistently stormy seas.

The book launch for Anchors No More was a success and I thank all of you who took the time to like posts and share pages and write reviews and buy books. Each one means a lot to me and I notice each and every little thing even if I do not take the time to acknowledge it sometimes.

I am working on three projects right now and

How are you doing on this fine day? Busy as ever I am sure.

Self publishing is an ongoing learning curve. Not only do contemporary writers have to be creative and productive on a steady and inspired level, they have to take the time and learn how to market, how to budget and hire some form of creative team that could include a graphic designer or two, formatting specialists and editing professionals.

Taking the entrepreneurial aspects of the title "self publisher" seriously is a vital piece of getting yourself seen and read in the over-saturated playground that is modern biblio-existence.

Good lord, have you ever had a baby? It's busy as hell.
So what have I been doing and not doing? Well...

1. I have been writing my butt off lately. It has been difficult to make time and I have been finding myself writing at odd hours and in odd places. But what can you do? Writers must write.

2. I have been chipping away at my next novel, a projected 110,000 word science fiction epic titled "Swill". It tells the story of a band of people struggling to survive a world overrun by drug addicted androids. It gets crazy up in those pages. Big action sequences, interesting speculative tech and history, and some sympathetic characters you want to see make it to the end (but of course only some do...)