So I told you in this post that fiction writers have to research too.  What I didn’t tell you was that as part of my research, Andrew and a couple other co-workers invited me to the range with them on Saturday so that I could shoot their weapons and really understand what I’m writing about.  So, Saturday afternoon around 11am, I headed to Warrenton, Virginia to the range.  My coworkers were already there, except Andrew and his girlfriend who got [Click Comments To Continue]

While Abandon is all about setting the character relationships, attitudes, and history, Savior is all about fighting zombies.  (Seriously, I’m only 20K in and I’ve already got three fights – this book is going to be action packed.)  One of the things that I’ve been having a little bit of trouble with is the whole, getting the weapons right thing.  You know, what kind of guns do they have?  In Abandon I just made a mention that they had weaponry  [Click Comments To Continue]

Before I get into what happened with me and A.H.Helmi (sorry for the name change – he’s constantly making me write not his real name in here), let me explain a little about me.  I play video games (my current obsession, Sim City 5), I love music, I write.  I design websites, I love to drive fast, and I like to spend money.  I’m an immediate gratification kind of person, but I try not to rely on others to provide me that gratification.  I have [Click Comments To Continue]

For zombie aficionado’s like myself, there is no better book on the genre than Max Brookes’ World War Z.  It is written like a UN report on the zombie apocalypse after it happens – an oral history of sorts.  There are interviews from people all over the world and explains it from it’s initial outbreak (in China) to the efforts of the world to cope after the zombies are contained. So when I heard that Brad Pitt had won a bidding war with [Click Comments To Continue]

Last night I watched The Walking Dead with my roommates, and I had a chat session on Ryan’s page with other people watching the Walking Dead.  (Ryan used to run CDP.net, which I miss… oh god do I miss it.)  Anyways, it was pretty interesting at the end because at the very end the following happens: Rick, after killing a bajillion zombies and stabbing into a really fat one, is sitting against a wall, looking pretty tormented over the death of [Click Comments To Continue]

I’ve joined a blog hop called The Next Big Thing Blog Hop.  Basically, every Wednesday, a couple new indie authors are invited to join into this and it’s a way for us to network and share a little about ourselves with you.  I hope you’ll join me on this journey as we blog hop our way through some new reads. Special thanks to Daniel Alexander, who was a featured author in week 20 for asking me to participate.  You can check him out at the [Click Comments To Continue]

Tonight is my 10 year reunion from Herndon High School.   It’s doesn’t feel like 10 years have gone by since high school but I guess they have.  When I was a little kid you always saw on TV these 10 year reunion shows and movies where they are showing off what they’ve done since high school.  I feel like they lied to me.  Maybe it’s because of the advent of facebook, but there’s no one that I cared about in high school that I don’t have on my [Click Comments To Continue]

I have reached a milestone I thought I would never reach.  I have become one of the people I constantly bitch about.  I am apathetic.  This isn’t just a temporary thing either – I can feel it settling over me like a warm blanket and I cling to it like it’s the only thing that will keep me sane. It started a month or so back with politics.  I got tired of talking about it.  Both the candidates sucked and I didn’t see the point discussing [Click Comments To Continue]

I’ve had a bad couple weeks.  Like, a really bad couple of weeks.  So I’m hanging out in my room, chatting with Eurymakos on gchat about my future and things I am thinking about, and I hear this knock at my door. It’s Katina. She’s telling me to go outside. My response is like, “Just open the door!” and I hear her say, “No, you have to come here!” So I get up out of bed, in my pajamas and go to the open door. I’m kinda annoyed, what [Click Comments To Continue]

The greatest thing ever happened on Monday.  (Well there were two greatest things ever, but I’m only blogging about one of them.)  You see, I was stuck down at the client site and Eurymakos sent me a text that said, “I have Lil Mitt”. You may remember a couple weeks ago when Brandon managed to fish a plush version of Mitt Romney out of the claw machine.  Then, he offered it up to people to see if they could come up with the best ideas of what [Click Comments To Continue]