The submission package for The Renegade’s Door has been in Tor’s in-box for 39 days, according to my delivery confirmation. I don’t expect to hear back from the acquisition editors for some time yet. According to their online guidelines, my submission would only be 20-30% of the way through the slush pile cue by now. [...]
Spring is definitely in the air here in northern California. And this time of year I always start to feel an old, familiar itch: the desire to get seriously lost in the woods, right and proper. During a recent conversation about my plans for a trek into the Orestimba Wilderness, a friend raised one eyebrow [...]
It’s official. I have once again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory. It’s been just over a week since my second round interview with a local geothermal technology company. Today I contacted the recruiter for an update, only to find that the company has decided to go with another candidate. What was the deciding [...]
If you’re one of my regular visitors, you know that I completed my first National Novel Writing Month last November, and submitted The Renegade’s Door to my first potential publisher in April after four months of revision. If you’re just tuning in for the first time… welcome to the insanity . Renegade is out in [...]
I finished my first foray into Henry Coe State Park in mid April. It was a short trip into the Blue Ridge Zone, hence the name of the article. I used this trip as prep work for the longer trek I planned for late April (more on that trip in a subsequent post). After taking [...]
