Category Archives: Inspiration

BayCon – go there!

Posted on May 26, 2019 by L. Jacob

Road trip! No, not really. BayCon is going on in sunny SoCal, and my publisher and two of the authors in Paper Angel Press are going to be there. Go visit! Writing non-fiction is a little harder than I thought. … Continue reading →

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Switching gears

Posted on May 12, 2019 by L. Jacob

While waiting for the slooooowwwww download of CoX, I’m writing a new book. I’ve stopped writing Blood From a Stone. I kept getting stuck, following the outline I had created for myself. I found out that I was forcing things … Continue reading →

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Posted on April 21, 2019 by L. Jacob

Next Saturday, I will be appearing at the Providence Book Festival in the Renaissance Hotel. It’s a fancy joint, so I might have to dress up. and I have to pay an insane amount to park. Oh well; at least … Continue reading →

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Editing

Posted on March 10, 2019 by L. Jacob

I will admit, I did some writing when I was in the hospital. When I got home, I typed it up and sent it to my editor. Not my best work. The stories that I had done before the hospital … Continue reading →

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Tree

Posted on February 6, 2019 by L. Jacob

In the Lenormand card deck, the tree is the card of health. When it comes up in a reading, you have to look at the cards around it to see whether health is good or bad. The Tree came up … Continue reading →

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Buckling down

Posted on January 27, 2019 by L. Jacob

With Air in the can, I’m supposed to concentrate on Grimaulkin Collected. The key here is “supposed to”. I will admit that this week I hardly wrote much, mostly because I was recovering from surgery. I had expected to write … Continue reading →

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The Erotic Formula

Posted on January 13, 2019 by L. Jacob

I’ve read a few gay erotica books, two by the same author, and found out that she follows this formula. Introduce the two men as forbidden fruit to each other. They find out they’re gay. One has an issue being … Continue reading →

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Where’s the beef?

Posted on December 30, 2018 by L. Jacob

I started to revise Yellowtree using class notes I had from a few years ago when I did the rewrite for Grimaulkin, around 2012. Using these notes, I realized a few things. There’s no conflict. There’s no antagonist. There’s no … Continue reading →

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Air completed (V1)

Posted on December 23, 2018 by L. Jacob

Due to surprise complications at work (basically, IT decided my department wasn’t a priority), I had some free time to finish writing Air. The editor said that I seemed to have more fun writing these. I wouldn’t say it was … Continue reading →

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Flotsam

Posted on September 30, 2018 by L. Jacob

Next weekend is Autumnfest, so I’ll be there for three days with Paper Angel Press stuff, in addition to my own stuff. I have a podcast ready at Dark Mystic Quill, and it’s about history in writing. I’m still working … Continue reading →

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