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Watch the trailer Middlegrade fantasy book. The book trailer for IN THE WINDOW ROOM, which is the first book in a four-part book series called The Histories of Earth. Buy the series on Amazon:...
View ArticleYelling at trees (episode 3): Serial Story
Yelling at trees is a serial story that is written from the perspective of a fictitious amateur female blogger, Kelsey Whitney, and is published through Instagram, Twitter, Goodreads, and this blog....
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Increments: Sometimes it might be easy to fall into the trap of measuring ourselves against the visible successes of others. You might see social media personalities with amazing skills, quick wit, an...
View ArticleLooking for early readers
I’m looking for early, beta readers for “Mountain of Shadows,” the second book in the City of Words series. Did you love the first book? Then read the second book, early, for free. You’ll be sent a...
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The second book in the City of Words series is finished. I’m calling it “Mountain of Shadows.” Now starts the months of editing, artwork, reediting, planning, continued editing, crying (for joy) when...
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View ArticleKeep going
Keep going: Writing is just finding the next best word… and then keeping that going until the story is complete. It’s the kind of process that fits best into an 80s movie, training montage, with a...
View ArticleAugmented Reality: Thoughts on Pokemon Go
Augmented Reality: I remember, clearly, the very first day that Facebook introduced their news feed function — I was in college, and as I was walking back from the University library I remember...
View ArticleGlow Sticks
Glow Sticks: Human genetic mapping has told us that we are all related, all descended from the same parents. In fact, the DNA that makes up for differences in physical appearance is so minimal (just...
View ArticleTruly Alive
Truly alive: The two-dimensional is by definition flat. You cannot hug a picture. You cannot walk into a painting and live your life there. What you need is the third-dimensional characteristic of...
View ArticleThoughts on Voting Day
I found this quotation in Saint Augustine’s, The City of God (written in 411 A.D.), talking about the gradual decline of Roman morality and of Roman society, which led to its eventual downfall; and I...
View ArticleComing back to life
Coming back to life: A few weeks ago, I posted a photo of this tree, with all bare branches and dead-looking, but now it’s leaves are grown and it’s full again. And it made me think of the idea of...
View ArticleWealth
My thought for the day is actually a borrowed thought from Sir Thomas More taken from his book, Utopia–about the nearly perfect, imaginary civilization of Utopia. The broader quote reads like this “For...
View ArticleChocolate Carrots
No one is ever really in danger of gorging themselves on lima beans. That’s not really how we function, as people. We go for the sweets, the things that entice, and call out to us. At the risk of...
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Whenever we travel to Florida my wife and I like to visit the city of Celebration: the astonishingly preplanned, Disney-built town near the Magic Kingdom. It’s what some might call endearing, or...
View ArticleTwo Giveaways
I’m currently hosting two giveaway through Goodreads. Enter to win. The Road to Jericho .goodreadsGiveawayWidget { color: #555; font-family: georgia, serif; font-weight: normal; text-align: left;...
View ArticleCity of Words – Chapter 1 preview
Preview of City of Words, by Steven J. Carroll. Buy it: Paperback eBook The pain is immediate. My eyes shoot open, but they are blocked. It’s happening again, and all my ears can hear is the...
View ArticleHow Star Wars: The Force Awakens should have ended – 3 alternate endings
Caution: Major Spoilers! Seriously. They’ve killed Star Wars — You remember that scene in Return of the Jedi in which Jabba the Hutt (translated through C-3Po) is talking about the sarlacc in the...
View ArticleBook vlog Review for CITY OF WORDS
So excited to receive a great review by Angie’s Epic Reads vlog: “If you enjoyed the Maze Runner series, I think you will really like this book… even if you did not enjoy the Maze Runner series, you...
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