Prolific

May 16, 2009 | Writing

Except here, I guess. The last six months have been a testament to devoted work. The Roman novel is not yet finished, but it's going to be massive anyway, and I'm in the home stretch. Meanwhile, with my partners at Shanghai Low, I've worked to complete...

Myth Conceptions

May 1, 2009 | Books - Shakespeare - Writing

Next week, over at the Shanghai Low blog THE PENNY DREADFUL, we begin serializing HER MAJESTY'S WILL. It's an experiment on my part, as I close in on the end of the Roman novel and work on a silly pirate thing, to see if I can write a serial novel a la...

And the secret project takes a hit.

Apr 10, 2009 | Writing

For a year, Jan and I have been working on a proposal for a very cool book. Just yesterday I mentioned it in my post about the serial novel. Because of its ties to another entity, we needed a lot of permissions to go ahead with it. Well, we just found out that our...

VARNISHED FACES – Afterword

Jan 28, 2009 | Cut Scenes - Shakespeare - Writing

For those keeping score, VARNISHED FACES falls between chapters 27 and 28 in THE MASTER OF VERONA, at the very beginning of the Fourth Act, entitled The Exiles. There are several reasons why this story pleases me. It fills in a few deficiencies in MV. We...

Resolution

Jan 2, 2009 | Writing

I vow that, after I finish the colossus that is COLOSSUS, I will write a short novel. If only to prove that I can.