Don’t Call It a Comeback

Don’t Call It a Comeback

  • Posted by mark
  • On October 16, 2016
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It’s been brought to my attention that I haven’t blogged in a year. Whoops. I’ve actually had a few people inform me that they’ve read THE FOURTH CHANNEL more than once, and a surprising number say they read it on a regular basis. They’re blowing my mind a little bit. To all of you who […]
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I Quit

  • Posted by mark
  • On September 21, 2015
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i_quit_by_lovehurt123-d5go0i8 I quit. I mean that in the past tense, of course. I had quit writing the Kari Hunter book for a few months. I thought about my next steps for a long while, and then told my writing group that the Kari Hunter series was dead. That book and I had tortured each other long enough. The book was wrong in many ways. I felt like every time I tried to fix it I somehow made it worse.
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The Three-Book Bucket List

  • Posted by mark
  • On January 24, 2015
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I want to write other books. Don’t get me wrong---I love the Kari Hunter series and the world I’ve built. I want to build out this world fully, in more ways than one. At present, I have plans to keep writing Kari books until it’s no longer fun for us all. Then we’ll consider other options. Until then, I have no plans to stop. But that doesn’t mean I don’t dream of writing other books. In fact, I have a secret “bucket list” of books that I want to write someday. Hey, it’s a new year---if there’s a better time to share this list, I don’t know when it is!
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I’m Still Standing (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!)

  • Posted by mark
  • On January 1, 2015
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drums Last week, I read a blog post by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, an established writer whose list of works and accolades is as long as my bucket list. Since writing is her full-time occupation, she’s kept herself informed about the comings and goings of the publishing world for self-published authors and traditionally published authors alike. Apparently, in 2014, authors did more goings than comings. According to Rusch, authors have been disappearing from the publishing landscape.
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