One of my goals for 2021 is to get better about documenting my past accomplishments and successes, as I am historically AWFUL about doing so. This really hit home when I was taking a look back at 2020 in order to align my publishing goals for 2021. I was in a planning workshop for authors, and in this workshop, they asked how many books we'd sold in 2020, and how much revenue we'd made from those books. And I realized... I HAD NO IDEA. I published my first book in 2015. And yet I have ... View Post
Beneath the Christmas Star: a Lucky Logan prequel flash fiction
(Timeline: This story takes place after the prequel LUCKY LOGAN, but long before the events of BARGAIN AT BRAVEBANK.) He wanted it more than anything he’d ever wanted in his life. The realization struck Logan Delano just as he’d finished shuttin’ up the barn for the night, and he’d turned around back toward the house, boots crunchin’ in the snow, shoulders hunched against the bitter cold, and he’d suddenly caught sight of the Christmas Star. It shone clear and bright in the black of ... View Post
Writing Prompt Wednesday: “Observations on an autumn afternoon”, a poem.
The leaves of a treewhose name I do not knowCling trembling stillamid other branches bare and brownAnd spot the ground beneath my feetblood red against the mudand shining rosy goldin the autumn sunDipping so low alreadyat not-quite-four in the afternoonMeanwhile an old gnarled hedge--see her name I do know-- squats nearbyits branches reaching farand ... View Post
Sometimes I forget things while writing a novel… and then I just roll with it.
Something I've been having a lot of fun with while sticking to the Writing Into the Dark process is the unpredictability of a novel's events. Even as the author... most times, I haven't a clue what's going to happen next. Sometimes that really freaks me out, yes. But as long as I stay in the characters' heads, as long as I can still feel/hear/see them... I just wait and watch. I let them figure it out. Then I write down whatever it is they happen to do. And frankly, so often I'm so ... View Post
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Friday Factoid: Most Outlaws Did Not Have Long Careers…
Friday Factoid is a blog feature where I’ll be sharing a little bit of background behind something from one of my books: ideas, characters, environments, pieces of research, you name it, it’s all fair game for the Friday Factoids! If you have a specific question, feel free to leave it in the comments or email me at jrfrontera@gmail.com! What will be featured this week? Read on to find out… About the rather short careers of most outlaws! If there's one thing much of our western fiction ... View Post
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