Year: 2012

I’ve been subjected to this sentiment throughout my life: “Horror, science fiction, mysteries, and the like, are fine for beach reading, but they’re not literature.” Then a few years ago, I stumbled…

To celebrate the most terrifying month of the year, a selected commenter to this blog entry will receive a free copy of The Alpha And The Omega!

While I was reading Ender’s Game (as chronicled in my previous post), a friend informed me that the author, Orson Scott Card, was an active opponent of same-sex marriage.  Though I’m not…

When I was originally working on my “first novel” (mentioned in my blog post below), I was in a couple of writing groups.  Submitting my book’s first few chapters to the groups…

In 2003, I began writing my first novel.  Out of all my story ideas, it was the one I felt most passionate about. No, it wasn’t The Alpha And The Omega. Unlike…

I originally came up with The Alpha And The Omega in the 1990s.  Back then, the time was ripe for an apocalyptic thriller.  It had been 2,000 years since Jesus walked the…

I recently joked with a friend that I should have made Christ and the Devil hunky shirtless teenagers in my novel, to cash in on the latest young-adult-paranormal-romance craze.  (“I’m on Team…

In case you haven’t heard of Amanda Hocking, she is the self-publishing phenom, who at the age of 26, sold more than a million Kindle ebooks.  (As a 40-something author who’s only…

About a month back, I entered The Alpha And The Omega in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest.  Today, Amazon announced the novels that would proceed to the second round of judging.…