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Vice President, Pikes Peak Writers
As most of you may know by now, I’m the new vice president of the Pikes Peak Writers. This has been in the works for a little over a month, which is one of the reasons I chose to not run again as president of the CSFWG. Things went as I had hoped because it [...]
Fare Thee Well, CSFWG
Yesterday morning the annual elections for the Colorado Springs Fiction Writers Group were held. Until that time, I’d been a volunteer/leader of the organization for five years. The first year was as Saturday Officer (called Saturday VP at the time), and the past four years was as president of the organization. When the elections for [...]
An Interview with Mike Reid and Me Over at SF Signal
Patrick Hester shot us an email a few days ago and asked if he could interview Mike and me over the process that was involved with the development of the CSFWG‘s anthology entitled, “An Uncommon Collection.” Mike was game to do it and so was I. After exchanging some emails over the course of a [...]
An Uncommon Collection is Available!
What a great day for the CSFWG! After almost two years of work, sweat, tears, and maybe a little blood, we’ve finally managed to publish an anthology! You can now find “An Uncommon Collection” on Amazon in paperback and ebook versions! Inside, you’ll find fifteen fantastic stories! Here’s what the table of contents looks like: If [...]
An Uncommon Collection: Update
The CSFWG anthology, An Uncommon Collection, is nearing completion! I received the physical proof from CreateSpace last night. I immediately opened the package and tore through the book. I looked for missing headers, additional headers that didn’t need to be there, font issues, cover askew, etc.. I didn’t see a single thing wrong! Yay! I’m [...]
An Uncommon Collection: Cover
At the CSFWG, we’ve been working on putting out an anthology of members’ works. It’s been a long road and has involved tons of work thus far. Thanks to Kimberly Evans’s photography and Mike Reid’s layout skills, we have a cover ready! The anthology itself will be coming out near the end of November (exact date [...]
CSFWG YouTube Channel
I just finished launched a YouTube channel for the Colorado Springs Fiction Writers Group. The “only” thing up there is a series of videos that weigh in at 2 1/2 hours long. The topic matter is the Hero’s Journey. If you’re not familiar with this story structure, then you may want to check out the [...]
I Hate Getting Out Of My Car
For those of you that don’t know, I’ve have a long drive (about 90 minutes with good traffic) to get from the garage in my house to the parking garage near work. I fill this time with podcasts like EscapePod, PodCastle and PseudoPod. However, they don’t nearly come close to filling up my drive time [...]
Presidency
No, this is not a political post. I’ll never do that in this forum. Henry Snider, the long-time President of the Colorado Springs Fiction Writer’s Group has stepped down from his post. The announcement was made a year ago that this would happen, and I volunteered to attempt to fill his sizable shoes. Hank is [...]
I Showed My Shorts to Writer’s Digest!
I took the plunge, and entered my first writing contest this afternoon. I entered the annual short fiction contest hosted by Writer’s Digest. This was the second-most nerve wracking action in my writing experience. What could be more world shaking than entering the first contest? Well… The first time I submitted a piece of my [...]