Category Archives: writing

Apple, Editing, and More Story Ideas

Posted on 2013/06/15 by lfrank

Been another busy week and while I wasn’t as productive as I wanted to be I still feel good about it. Beta-readers got a full copy of A Painful Blessing sent to them this morning, so I expect to get … Continue reading →

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1st Draft – A Lesson in Power

Posted on 2013/05/12 by lfrank

Finished the first draft of my new short story, A Lesson in Power today with 6652 words, which I packaged up and sent it out to my beta-readers for mauling, uh, I mean feedback. So that’s now two short stories … Continue reading →

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Back to Work and Busy Again

Posted on 2013/04/24 by lfrank

Two months ago I started working again at another Austin tech company with a bunch of former coworkers, so much so its just like old home’s week. They have a new software product coming out at the end of this … Continue reading →

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Writers Beware the Predatory Scum of Author Solutions

Posted on 2012/11/29 by lfrank

David Gaughran has written an excellent post called Simon & Schuster Joins Forces With Author Solutions To Rip Off Writers that describes the shady tactics used to trick unwary authors into paying them (sometimes) enormous sums of money just to see their … Continue reading →

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The End of Days

Posted on 2012/04/08 by lfrank

Awoke yesterday with the idea for a short story based on the end of the solar system, when all the hydrogen in the Sun is burned out and it expands into a red giant that might engulf the Earth. Not … Continue reading →

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