I realized on Tuesday, in the middle of a conversation with a friend, that I have two speeds: superachiever and yawn, why bother. I took 4 AP classes my senior year in high school, on top of a ton of family obligations. I decided last year to run a 5k, from ground zero, with asthma […]
Talk Nerdy to Me: Jason Brick Talks RPGs
Note from Alex: Please welcome Jason Brick to the blog for today’s Talk Nerdy to Me post. Jason talks about one of the favorite geek past times: the ever-popular Role Playing Game. Take it away, Jason! About a month into our relationship, the woman who would become my wife called me her “Boyfriend of […]
The Right Kind of Talking
Over the last few weeks, as an experiment, I’ve been talking to a writing coach, specifically, Cathy Yardley of Rock Your Writing. I started out just wanting some accountability, you know, I will get this thing done by next week. Then next week comes and she asks me, “Did you get this thing done this […]
A Great Week
It’s been a great week. I finished revision on the Mindspace novella on Friday and sent it to my editor! I will pause while you rejoice with me 🙂 I got Jesse Feldman, my old editor from Penguin who is now a freelance editor, to agree to edit both the novella and Book 5! So […]
Exhaustion & Updates
So I’m coming up on the halfway mark for this whole gestating-a-human-being thing, and I’m learning (slowly and painfully) that I can’t do quite as much creative work as I would like to do at any given time. Pregnancy is exhausting, for one. Bone-crushingly exhausting. I literally spent ten minutes this afternoon fantasizing about taking […]
Returning to Odyssey
I was fortunate enough to be asked to return last week to teach at the Odyssey Writing Workshop, my alma mater, four years after I graduated in 2011. It was an incredible experience to see the workshop from the other side of the table, to interact with the students, and to see student critiques. The […]
Talk Nerdy to Me: James Knapp Talks Text-Based Video Games
Hi All, Please welcome James Knapp to the blog. He’s here to talk about the nerdiest of nerdy video games… the text based ones 🙂 Oh, and he has a new book out called Alice in No Man’s Land – with a giveaway! So check out his site for details. Thanks for joining us for Fun […]
Talk Nerdy To Me: Featuring Eric R Asher
Before we had “Revenge of the Fallen”, “Dark of the Moon”, and “Age of Extinction”… they were simply “More Than Meets The Eye”… TRANSFORMERS by Eric R Asher When they killed Optimus Prime in the 1986 Transformers movie? Quite possibly the most traumatic moment of my childhood. It all started back in 1984. My parents […]
Reader Question: Why Hasn’t Adam “Fixed” His Addiction?
I had a reader contact me today with a question I’ve been asked a few times now, why Adam doesn’t just “fix” his addiction or have it “fixed” by the Guild Structure people. This is a good question! And I love that my readers are thinking deeply about the world and the rules of the […]
Talk Nerdy To Me: Featuring Jennifer Estep
Today’s “Nerdy” guest has a passion that I feel many of us share, to some degree. In some tiny (or maybe NOT so tiny) nook or cranny of our homes/offices/attics… we’ve got them, we love them… and today, author Jennifer Estep is going to share hers with us. I’ve always loved superheroes. The action, the adventure, […]
