It’s been months since I updated this blog but its time I change that. Since I last wrote I have continued to settle into life in Houston. While I don’t want to go into too much detail here, when I moved I was leaving behind a situation which had become unhealthy for me. While I’d [...]
Tonight I wrote my first introduction for a book. It’s for an upcoming rerelease of one of my favorite short story collections by a favorite author of mine. I was really honored to be asked to do this, although it’s also a little surreal that he thought an introduction by me was worth having in [...]
Today I penned my first blurb for a book, at the request of M. Christian. It should appear on an upcoming book of his science fiction and horror. While I was of course very flattered to be asked, it is also a little bit surreal — a bit like being recognized from my blogging on [...]
Today, Reesa, Steve and I spent nearly all of our productive hours creating a map of a city on another world. It was a fairly grueling 12+ hour process, even with breaks to take in an episode of Dexter and eat. The first draft results are impressive, and preliminary photos have been shared with our [...]
I’ve been putting a lot of hours into the big “secret” project lately, and it’s been interesting — I’m wearing a lot of hats right now, and I am not sure which of them count as ‘writing.’ I’m a (hopefully not the sole) webdesigner on various project sites, including a fair amount of hacking at [...]
The latest entry in the artist business model series is now available. This entry covers the DMAIC model, a useful tool for evaluating new projects or for figuring out how to improve existing ones. Read about it on Words Words Words.
It’s been a busy and exciting week. I spent a long extended weekend in the Austin area with my girlfriend Tea and her network. It was a wonderfully loving, blissful, creative and fun weekend. She’s just gotten great news that her sculptures have been accepted by a Houston gallery, with a Halloween-ish opening. I’ll be [...]