The Necromancer’s Lair
It’s been a long time since I announced a new publication. But that’s what I’m doing today. 🙂 I wrote The Necromancer’s Tower as my 4th Quarter entry to this year’s Writers of the Future contest.  That is, in itself, …
Author: Michael Kingswood
A Look Ahead
So I’ve been thinking about the new year to come.  Can’t imagine why, right?  🙂  In doing so, I went back and read Dean‘s posts from way back in 2008 about setting goals for the new year.  In reading this …
#NaNoWriMo Update – or – Why It’s Not Bad To Come Up Short
Well, it’s 22:19 on the 28th. Â I’m just about to hit 30,000 words for the month. Not bad. But…not good enough for NaNoWriMo. Â Of course, I’ve got some more writing in me tonight, so I’ll probably get to 31,000 or …
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Silence Like A Cancer Grows…
Yeah, I’m feeling a little bit saucy. Â Hence the play on Simon and Garfunkel in the title of this post. It’s been a while since I last posted anything. Â And a lot’s happened in the interim. Â So why haven’t I …
Deadline – Met
I pushed submit on my 4th quarter Writers of the Future story this evening, about an hour and a half ago. Â So I just barely met the deadline, which was midnight tonight. Â And the word limit of 17,000 words, too. …
Boring…
Lately I’ve noticed something. Â Maybe some of y’all out there can relate to it. The interwebs are FREAKING BORING! Seriously. I suppose this partially harkens back to the phenomenon I talked about a couple posts ago, but it’s more than …
Another one joins the brood
Big event last night. The better half gave birth to our fourth (and last) child at 2317 Pacific time. 🙂 Kiran Tanuki is a pretty big boy – 8lbs 5.4oz, 21 inches long. His first name is Sanskrit, meaning “ray …
It’s a Ghost Town out there…
It’s funny how things change. This time last year, I followed a bunch of Indie writers who were blogging all the time, about what they were writing, how they were doing, how awesome or scary or whatever the new world …
Oh, SNAP!
It’s been a mixed couple of days. First…the good news.  🙂 Yesterday evening, I approved the print proof of Glimmer Vale.  Y’all know how nice the cover art is, but check out how beautiful the printed version is!     Pretty …
Burning Up
Yeah, that’s right, baby.  I’m on FIRE! Metaphorically speaking, of course. 🙂 On Friday, I pushed publish on another title: another collection of five stories.  But instead of shorts, I combined all of my novelettes and my one novella into …