NIWA Blog Tour Guest Author: SUZANNE HAGELIN Time for writing is limited. We can’t let ourselves be distracted every few minutes with all those side tangents… questions nagging at the back of our minds. What is the word for that thing? Do they really talk like this? Are there mountains in that area? How far […]
So, You Want to Be an Author? Prepare to Be a Parent. So let’s talk briefly about why you want to be an author. While I’ll bet you lust after Andy Warhol’s fifteen minutes of fame, what really drives you is the images in your head. You have a story or world, unique to you, […]
I am part of a group of authors who decided we need to mix up our blogs a bit. We agreed to do guest posting on each other’s social media. Once a week we will be hitting topics of writing, organization, genres, marketing, resources for authors, and what makes the writing community special. We will […]
HOME! To see the entire road trip visit www.tanstaaflpress.com/tgrt/ The total trip, counting side trips and assorted nonsense was 7108 miles. <Beginning Odo> <End Odo> My initial plan for the total driving portion of the trip was 6600 miles plus maybe an additional 10% for misc. That would make about 7300 miles. I planned to […]
3/17 Weed, CA to Castle Rock, WA (HOME) – 410 mi To see the entire road trip visit www.tanstaaflpress.com/tgrt/ Don’t ask me why, but I woke up in Weed at 4AM and couldn’t shake a sense of foreboding. I think I worried about possible border closures and travel bans. Adding to that was my overriding […]
3/17 Barstow, CA to Weed, CA – 635 mi To see the entire road trip visit www.tanstaaflpress.com/tgrt/ Yes it is really named Weed, CA. For those who don’t know, this used to be the illegal capital of marijuana prior to legalization. Its remote local made it difficult to find pot farms back in the day. […]
3/15 Albuquerque, NM to Barstow, CA – 675 mi To see the entire road trip visit www.tanstaaflpress.com/tgrt/ So for those followers of the blog, I apologize for my long delay in this post. I didn’t realize that I still was more ill than I thought (no, not C19, just a good, old-fashioned head cold). I […]
3/14 OKC to Albuquerque – 543 miles. To see the entire road trip visit www.tanstaaflpress.com/tgrt/ I’ve spent the better part of a year planning and organizing for this road trip. It was planned to facilitate TANSTAAFL Press’ breakout year. It is hard to see it as anything but an abysmal failure, something that is gnawing […]
3/13 Dallas to OKC – 195 miles. To see the entire road trip visit www.tanstaaflpress.com/tgrt/ I didn’t blog about my trip to Dallas. Only one thing of note came up, I received my first ever “General Delivery” package. I needed some more cat toys and my wife made them and shipped them to me. I […]
3/10 Monument, CO to Amarillo, TX – 400 miles To see the entire road trip visit www.tanstaaflpress.com/tgrt/ Well, I planned to visit with ADB today. As such I got up early and made haste. I wanted to get to Amarillo before close of business. My hope was a quick tour and then dinner with old […]