Hello my friends and the occasional relative! Second October sale of ebook version of The Killer and The Dead starts later this week! Check it out! I have begun to assemble my collage of pieces that will become The Red Palace this week. Why, because I wrote a section that ended with the single biggest …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! First off, the first of two October sales of The Killer and The Dead starts tomorrow! (UK and US) 1st to 8th of October. Start off the spooky season with a serial killer facing down the undead and his own familial dysfunction! You know you want to. I …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Writing is about belief. Belief in yourself, that you have something worthwhile to say, and the ability to express it well enough that other minds, hearts, people, could be touched by the words you have put to paper. Your thoughts, your emotions, become glyphs to be viewed and …
Continue reading Riffing on belief in writing, and a confused relationship with whales.
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! This week, this week. I've exercised more, eaten more cleanly. (Not clean, might I add, but better!) Been in touch with family and friends. Worked. Practiced pool using shot specific cards, read Scottish fairy tales. Done my first experimental narration of The Gardener and The Goddess. Believe me …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Dio song as origin of this blog's title. I took an unannounced week off here, because I took a week off there, in work-land. I had high hopes for this week. My pool game continues to improve. I really need to start blogging about that so I can …
Continue reading It’s like broken glass, you get cut before you see it…
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! The Thief and The Demon hardback copy is HERE! A little late to the party, but a welcome guest nonetheless. I'm fixing the non-formatted blurb. I fixed the other two versions that also got crammed together when I changed their covers, but for some reason it did not …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Politics and Religion. Religion and politics. The advice is not to talk about it in polite company. So I wrote a book centered on faith and religion, and I’m writing a book about politics, power, and the self-serving nature of rulers. These are the choices of the writer …
Continue reading Religion and Politics and a Cover Upgrade! (Hardback coming soon!)
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I have had a good week. I hope you have had one too. Now, on the eve of returning to work, I wish I had more time off. Isn’t that always the way? Too much time spent looking at the screen upon which I now type. But, I …
Continue reading Imagined History, Anticipated Rewrites, and Optimism
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Do you, like me, sometimes wonder where the wonder went? Did it disappear in a puff of wonderment? When I decide to watch a random streaming flick, I often look for a ‘space’ movie. Something set out there, big enough to give that sense of wonder you would …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I’ve been doing some thinking recently. (Don’t we all? Don’t we all engage in thinking constantly? What does that phrase really mean, when you think about it?) I’ll start again. I have been engaging in a form of creative introspection recently. Life has been throwing distractions and stresses …
Continue reading What to write next? Time to trust the artistic gut
Roderick T. Macdonald 