Writing/Editing Update, December Edition

And just like that another month—and another challenging year—are gone, and good riddance! Bouncing back from the coronavirus misadventure of November, during December I tried to get caught up and get various projects back on track, with mixed success. Of course, the busy holiday season makes it tricky to get extra work done. Deadlines for …

Writing/Editing Update, November Edition

Oof. It's been a month. The first weekend of November my wife thought she was coming down with a cold. That Monday I felt something coming on as well. By that evening, I told my wife, "I've either got the flu or covid." It turned out to be the latter. We both had the plague: …

Writing/Editing Update, October Edition

Per my previous writing/editing update, I've spruced up my testimonial page with some more current authors and books, and have just a couple more testimonials to add as they come in. For now I'm aiming for six fiction authors and six nonfiction authors. Even though I'm currently doing predominantly fiction, I still like to show the …

Writing/Editing Update, September Edition

Yikes, I'm getting to this post late! Had a couple busy weeks of copyediting and an out-of-town weekend that really threw me off. And as I type this, me mum is visiting for a week, so taking care of all my various projects has been challenging. For one thing, I noticed my testimonial page on …

Writing/Editing Update, August Edition

Well, that month went by fast. I'm happy to report that my efforts to properly schedule my work so that I don't go insane to make deadlines has continued to be successful. I'm working hard to ensure the trend continues. I've had September booked full for a couple weeks already, and October is almost full; …

Writing/Editing Update, July Edition

Every month I vow to post at least once in between these monthly writing/editing updates, and once more I haven't accomplished that minimal goal. Perhaps I shouldn't try to maintain multiple websites, a nearly always-behind podcast, and a social media presence while juggling full-time freelance editing with multiple personal writing projects . . . but …

Writing/Editing Update, June Edition

It's a holiday weekend, and I'm managing to get a day or two off. Part of the problem is I forget to schedule holidays. When I pick up a freelance gig that takes place over a holiday, I almost always forget to take that into account when I put together a work plan in my …

Writing/Editing Update, May Edition

Oof and blurgh. I often talk about being busy, the way most people do. You know, you ask someone, "How's work?" And the answer is frequently, "Oh, crazy. I can barely keep up. And Bill in accounting replaced all the flash drives with packs of Juicy Fruit gum. Again." Okay, maybe not that last part, …

Writing/Editing Update, April Edition

April was another full month on the copyediting front, but I still managed to edit and post a new episode of Generations Geek, the podcast I do with my daughter, in which we interviewed Erin Macdonald, the science consultant for the Star Trek TV series. In pandemic news, my wife, daughter, and I got our …

“In the Time of the Martians”: An Excerpt

Before I get to the excerpt, a little backstory on how "In the Time of the Martians" came about. I entered the world of media tie-in writing in 2004, when my Star Trek story "Full Circle" was published in Strange New Worlds VII. Media tie-in writing is, of course, writing based on characters and stories from …