I can't believe it's September already and the kiddos start back to school today! Between work life, home life and the writers' guild, I...

I submitted a poem for an anthology and it got accepted!

I sincerely apologize for not posting anything all summer. Life just got in the way after I tore apart the chapter I was about to post. I...

81 is the old 70!

As most of you know, I've been looking for an alternative to Patreon for some time. I've been watching Ream Stories from the sideline...

If you are a regular visitor, you may have noticed there is a Log In link in the top menu. Why? Patreon has been doing some weird shit and, like many other creators, I have been considering closing my Patreon account for a while now. Relax! I'm not going to close my Patreon account, but everything on Patreon will soon be in the member section here. I've setup weekly, monthly and yearly subscriptions, with the yearly subscription being roughly what you would typically pay thro

If you followed me on any of the free sites I was posting my story to, you've no doubt noticed I haven't logged on in a while. Aliens and...

With this blog post I'm going to discuss domain names, since EVERYBODY that ever wants to promote themselves, should have one! Your...

Just like the last two years, I'm doing NaNoWriMo again. November is officially National Novel Writing Month and I love the challenge of...

I’ve been hanging out on several discord servers lately and they’re kind of neat. I’m not sure exactly what I’m going to do with my own...

The president of the Diamond Valley Writers' Guild recently resigned, so the Vice President ascended to the position and they held an...

Today I hit the 500,000 word milestone for my Aliens & Cowboys series. The story is nearing the end, then it’ll be editing the third...

I participated in this year’s NaNoWriMo again. I just love the challenge, unfortunately, all other writing has to take a back seat ...

My apologies for my absence, today is the one year anniversary of my mom’s passing, but the past few months of camping season have been...

Effective August 1, 2022, Dawn Patrol Publishing is the new home for HostingHero, providing all the same website and domain services as ...

The other day I joined a discord channel and you have to create your own profile. Within minutes of joining, one of the moderators...

I found a new writers' guild kind of by accident today. This guy named Howard posted an ad for an upcoming meeting featuring Fauzia Burke...

Since Aliens and Cowboys is finally coming to an end (I think?) I’ve just been struggling with writing the ending. I know what I want the...

To further my writing (and maybe figure out what the hell I’m doing) I enrolled myself in Creative Writing Level 1 and Level 2 through...

After the success of Witches and Werewolves that I wrote for the NaNoWriMo 2021 contest, I’ve decided maybe I’ll try it once again, only...

Witches & Werewolves is a story I wrote during NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). It was more or less just to prove to my creative...

Just to let everyone know, I am doing OK. I just haven’t done much writing in the past couple of weeks. My family went for a last campout...

Every writer gets writer’s block from time to time, so my solution to getting around writer’s block is to keep writing, but switch...

Traditional nomenclature is usually spoken as “Cowboys and…” Originally did call my story Cowboys and Aliens, but the story grew into a...

Well, it’s actually been more than a year, but it’s close enough, as I realized I hadn’t posted anything since my 6 month update. Plus...

It’s been six months since I started publishing my story Cowboys and Aliens to various websites, all of Book One (The Cowboy and the...

The first 4 chapters of my story have been on StoriesOnLine for a week now and I’m totally stoked! Over 10,000 downloads so far! Over 300...

Well, yesterday I decided to actually start publishing some of my story to StoriesOnline.net . I can honestly say that last night I didn’t sleep very well, I was so nervous for taking an idea that I started back in grade 9 or 10 (some 30+ years ago) and actually publishing it for everybody to see. There it was 4am in the morning and I still hadn’t seen any email notifications for comments, votes or anything. Well, it turned out those all ended up in my junk mail folder! I ch

Growing Up I was born May 31, 1969 in Susanville, California . Although born in the USA, my family moved to Canada in 1971, where I was raised in a little town called Meeting Creek in rural Central Alberta. I started telling stories at a young age, which was handy when we drove from Alberta to California to visit relatives in the summer. Back in the 70s & 80s, there wasn’t much in the way of entertainment on road trips, so my family would see the name of a town, river or