Not long now, folks! My next book, the third (and final?) book in my co-written Starship Ass series, will go live on Amazon on Thursday, November 14th! That's only days away! Ah! It's hard to believe that just a few months ago (at the end of May) was the release of Book 1, and also my first full-length novel publication. Less than six months later, and I'll have three full-length novels out there! Holy crap! :P I also wrote a whole 'nother novel in that time (and a flash fiction ... View Post
The NaNoWriMo 2019 Grand Experiment, Day 1: Writing Into the Dark = lower word count but better world-building!
Well, day 1 of NaNoWriMo is in the books. (Ha ha, puns.) As is my yearly tradition when participating in NaNo, I took the day off work to devote the entire day to writing, hoping to accumulate a large chunk of words and get a head start on the challenge. (Especially since the back half of the month is always pretty crazy.) For the first time since 1990-something, I'm trying a totally different process to write my next novels. I started writing up a whole post about this process, and how it ... View Post
There’s a giant herd of buffalo 15 minutes from my house and I had no idea…
HOW exactly do you miss a giant herd of buffalo near your house? I have no idea. But we've been living in this same house for ten + years now (omg really!?) and I didn't know they were there. There is also a giant herd of elk in the same area. And a "town" straight out of 1855. Which is incredibly relevant to my life right now, considering I'm working on a steampunk western series modeled after the mid-to-late 1800s. SO imagine my surprise and indignation (indignation because ... View Post
What We’ll Do for a Duck…
As you may or may not know... I have pet ducks. I say PET ducks, because no way and no-how are we going to eat them. (Except for in case of the Apocalypse and/or the Zombie Apocalypse. But even then, we'd likely hatch some new ducklings for the express purpose of eating, and raise them with the intent of eating, and not, you know, name them and stuff, so that the guilt of eating them is somewhat lessened. The main point being... we're NOT going to eat our adorable ducks unless ABSOLUTELY ... View Post
Friday Factoid: Gangs of the Old West Actually Had Mostly Boring Names
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 boring names of gangs in the old west, and how that influenced my writing! Well, ... View Post
Writing “into the Dark” for NaNoWriMo 2019: The Set-Up
So as I mentioned in my last post, I'm not entirely starting with a blank canvas for my NaNoWriMo project. I'm not sure if that officially still makes it a "pantsed" novel or not, but I'm not here to argue semantics, so we'll just roll with it! Let me first say that this writing process, what Dean Wesley Smith calls "writing into the dark", is actually my natural writing process. When I sat down to write my first novel at 14 (in 1996), this is what I did. It worked for two novels. And ... View Post
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