Middle Grade Ninja: NINJA STUFF: Author, Year One (Part One – Fortune and Glory)
This is to be the last post of the year, Esteemed Reader, as I’m shutting down for the holidays. We’ll start up again sometime in January with new guest posts and interviews with writers and publishing professionals and I might even review a book or two or finish that chapter-by-chapter retrospective of Harry Potter and […]
Middle Grade Ninja: NINJA STUFF: Author, Year Nine (2022)
Nine of these yearly posts in and I’m still writing them!?! Nine years of proactively publishing books and pursuing a dream of being author I first had 33 years ago when I discovered Beverly Cleary. Usually, I strive for a more hopeful tone with these posts because I’m a mostly optimistic person–the world we live […]
Middle Grade Ninja: NINJA STUFF: Author, Year Four (2017)
Another year in the rearview, Esteemed Reader. Time, you wicked thing, you move too fast. Seems like I just wrote 2016’s annual year-in-review post for this series in which I chronicle my writer’s journey. I’m aware this is a trick of perspective. Every year that passes is a comparatively smaller fraction of my overall life and […]
Middle Grade Ninja: NINJA STUFF: Author, Year Five (2018)
Well, the years start coming and they don’t stop coming and I’m so old that I still quote Smashmouth. That song has graced our eardrums for 20 years this year and Shrek has graced our eyeballs for 18 years. Do you remember which theater you were in when you first saw that movie? Yeah? Are you […]
Middle Grade Ninja: NINJA STUFF: Author, Year Eight (2021)
Here we are, Esteemed Reader, another year of our life in the rearview. For me, 2021 was one of the better ones, and not JUST by comparison to 2020, although that was part of it. I can honestly say I’ve been a happier person in 2021 than I was for the four years before it. […]
Middle Grade Ninja: NINJA STUFF: An Appropriate Relationship Between Author and Blogger (Part Two)
Last Time on Ninja Stuff: I talked about how authors should better appreciate bloggers for all the hard, usually unpaid work they do to promote books. I stated that I think a writer who requests a blogger to feature them should have the courtesy to promote that post should a blogger agree to do them […]
Middle Grade Ninja: NINJA STUFF: An Appropriate Relationship Between Author and Blogger (Part One)
Greetings and salutations, Esteemed Reader. I hope this post finds you well. It’s Writing Day, which is how it is I have time to both produce my daily word count for All Right Now (soon to be available) and write this post. The YA Cannibals are all here and for the first time, so is […]
Middle Grade Ninja: NINJA STUFF: All Finished Now and Revolution
Greetings, Esteemed Reader. Sorry to have been away for so long. This has been one of my hardest years for blogging because I honestly just haven’t had time. I see the blog sitting here forlorn and un-updated and it makes me sad, but my rule has always been that fiction writing comes before blogging and […]
Middle Grade Ninja: The Ninja is a Hopeless Nerd
Most of you Esteemed Readers can ignore this post. But I love me some Batman and this is my blog, so I’ll post what I like. If you like Batman too, watch this video and prepare to geek out big time. If not, check back in the next day or two and I’ll have the Book […]
Middle Grade Ninja: Ninja Emergency
Hello there, Esteemed Reader! So good to see you, especially just now. As you know, today was to be my glorious return to regular posting, but I’m afraid I’m going to have to put that off at least another week. It’s too bad. I’ve got a whole host of great interviews lined up for you […]