I'm a writer. There, I've admitted it. I wonder if there's a 12-Step program for folks like me...

Most of this blog will be about writing for a living. Or maybe about trying to earn a living as a writer. Or maybe about trying to have a life while you write.

And maybe I'll be able to avoid the driving temptation to write about politics. But I'm not very good around temptation, so all I can promise is that I'll try to avoid writing about politics.

But I will write about the software I use, and the software I try out, and what I think about it. I actually spent lots of years in software testing - as a tester and as a manager of testing departments. I actually started work in software development in 1971, so I have a bit of experience with computers to back up what I have to say on this subject.

Friday, January 6, 2012

I’ve spent the last few weeks organizing my thoughts

 

And now I find that I have several left over that don’t relate to anything I’m working on now. Mostly,  they have to do with my life; unfortunately, I don’t really have a life worth mentioning, so I’ll just toss those particular thoughts into some dark and dreary corner of my brain and let them run free for a while longer.

Who needs a life, anyway. I’m a writer. I just make stuff up as I go along.

But I’ve got a solid handle on the ending for “Lonesome Cove”, my fourth novel, so I’ll get to work on it Monday morning and hope to have it wrapped up in two weeks. It’s pretty much finished – I’m lacking around a hundred pages, and then I can ship it off to my editors for a final clean-up.

It will go on sale in Kindle format first, probably some time near the first of March, with any luck. By the way, I’ve dropped the prices on the first three novels to $3.00 to encourage sales, and “Lonesome Cove” will carry the same price when it does appear.

I hope to be able to post an image of the cover art for the novel in another week or so.

Here’s a link to the downloads page on my web site where you can get a PDF file with the first three chapters of “Lonesome Cove” if you’ve a mind to see what the fuss is all about. It’s got the Mafia, Miami street gangs and stolen gold all wrapped up together in one not-so-neat little package…

http://garyshowalter.com/FreeDownloads.aspx

Just scroll down to the bottom of the page to find the download link for “Lonesome Cove”. You’re of course welcome to any of the the others, if you’ve a mind.

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