25 Tuesday Jun 2013
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After all, why not?
The thunder of responses in my in-box has been precedented (i.e., no comments whatsoever) and, as such, I am compelled to let you all know that yet another chapter of my non-magnum opus 1980s Santa Cruz mystery novel is now ready for your reading pleasure on Wattpad. Because I can, that’s why!
22 Saturday Jun 2013
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It’s amazing how many banana slug pictures you can find on the Internet these days, yeah?
Chapter 6, “In Which a Party Is Held, And Tosh Gleans Some Information” of my 1980s Santa Cruz mystery novel is now up for your reading pleasure on Wattpad. So if you have Wattpad on your smartphone or table, why not take a look? Or just surf over there and check it out? But whatever you do with this information, know this: I’ll keep putting out these chapters every couple of days or so until the story is done. So there!
20 Thursday Jun 2013
Image courtesy of Random Ruckus
Chapter 5 of my 1980s Santa Cruz-based mystery novel “A Study with Slugs”, “Canvassing the Crazies”–in which our intrepid investigators use Surf City’s population of ubiquitous, somewhat-unhinged homeless people to their advantage–is now available for your reading pleasure on WattPad. Read it and weep. Or laugh. Or get pissed off. Or be abjectly puzzled. Whatever. But read it, in any case!
17 Monday Jun 2013
Image of banana slug invaders from space courtesy of Pxleyes.com
In keeping with my personal vow to publish a chapter of my 1980’s Santa Cruz Holmesesque mystery novel “A Study with Slugs” on Wattpad every day or two, I have posted Chapter 4, “What the Elves Had to Tell”. Give it a read and, if you are so inclined, tell me your opinion about it below!
14 Friday Jun 2013
A banana slug in a tea-cozy? Heck if I know!
Despite the roaring lack of encouragement, I continue to plod on, publishing a chapter of my novel every other day or so. The latest chapter is available at WattPad; please surf on over and check it out. And if you happen to read it, hey, it would be wonderful if you left comments there on WattPad, or here, or just IM’d me and told me what a talentless idiot I am and how I should give it up.
And maybe if my friend Becky sees the above photo, she’ll tell us–from deep in her bag of knitting knowledge–what the heck it is.
12 Wednesday Jun 2013
Two slugs; second chapter; get it?
For those of you who are interested–don’t all speak up at once!–Chapter 2 of my mystery novel “A Study with Slugs” (until such a time as someone suggests a better title) is now available for your reading pleasure and/or derision on Wattpad; please surf on over and give it a read. And leave comments, or I’m never going to improve as a writer, dammit!
10 Monday Jun 2013
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I misdoubt that there is a crowd of thousands out there, waiting for me to make my mystery novel, written last November and now fully edited, available to the world. Heck, I doubt it’s even dozens of people. There are some good friends who have told me that they won’t read it, in fact. (“I don’t really like mysteries,” one told me, e.g.)
Be that as it may: It is coming soon. I am waiting on my illustrator to generate some cover art for me, and I want to present you all–my teeny, tiny readership–with as polished a product as possible. I will be making it available in both ePub and Mobi format, so you can read it on most any device out there.
But while you wait, in the unlikely even that you want to get a look at it sooner, I have started posting the book, one chapter at a time, on Wattpad. I don’t know at what rate I will post chapters; once every day or two is my guess. But if you want to take a look, please feel free to surf on over and read it there. I will follow up with updated pointers here, too. Just cuz I’m narcissistic.
21 Tuesday May 2013
Yup, that be me
Hi there; I’m Doug, and this be my blog.
I’ve had blogs before. You can see my first stab at blogging starting in 2007 at blogspot.com. After that, I gave Open Salon a try for a while, and posted there pretty regularly (particularly while I was working at Juniper and, thus, in Mt. View a lot and so away from my family and with a bit more free time). Most recently I have been belaboring people with my opinions on Facebook.
And all of those were fine. And I plan to use this blog space for boring you with my opinions in the future. But that’s not why I grabbed this .com domain. My plan is to create a place where I can make my fiction available–available for comment and for download.
Whether or not I can, at some point in the future, find a way to make money with my fiction I have no idea. But in the meantime I am writing, and wanting to share (or inflict, depending on your point of view) my stuff. This offers me a means of doing so. Look for my first novel to be posted hopefully soon (in DRM-free ePub format). Other stories hopefully to follow.
So welcome, and I hope you enjoy.
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