Most people make resolutions in January, welcoming the new year with thoughts of how they’d like to be/act/change/etc. And I make those, for sure. But I also like to check in throughout the year, setting smaller goals and re-evaluating where I stand on the goals I have made already. So here are five of my [...]
Category Archive for ‘Writing’ 
Staying Motivated in the Midst
Right now I have a problem. It’s a problem most writers face in the course of their careers. It’s a problem of motivation. Writing is sort of a tough profession. Yes, you get to do what you love and then people tell you they actually like it, which is very edifying. But it’s also exhausting, [...]
Guest Post: Why I Put My Zombies Behind Bars
Welcome to our first guest blogger, Marty Shaw, who writes about putting zombies in prison (a topic I’m most interested in since I’m currently writing a zombie in prison short WEIRD). Welcome Marty! To paraphrase Doctor Who, zombies are cool. All you have to do is take a stroll through your local bookstore, click over [...]
11 Favorite Moments of 2011
Well, I am just WAY behind the eightball on this one. Most everyone else has come and gone with their “2011″ recap posts, but I’ve never been one to follow trends. Hell, I should put this post off until June and really confused everyone. Maybe not. At any rate, with the New Year just a [...]
Don’t be a douche online, kids
So if you’ve followed my twitter or Facebook, you probably saw my update last week about a little customer service problem that was brought to the light by the amazing Penny-Arcade.com here and here. Basically, this douchebag who runs a company called Ocean Marketing that helped with distribution of a cool gaming controller, treated someone [...]
Silence!
Over the years, I’ve done a lot of interviews here and there around the interwebs and there’s a few questions that always seem to come up. Where do you get your ideas (magic)? How do you get published (lots of crying and wailing, mostly)? And one is do you write with music? I love music, [...]
Why Seattle/Pacific Northwest?
As I’m writing this, I’ve just put the finishing touches on a new proposal and sent it off to my literary agent. No, it’s not a Dave and Sarah book, but there are zombies in it. Also, it’s set in the Pacific Northwest (in a fictional town called Edgewater, Oregon) just like MARRIED WITH ZOMBIES [...]
My Top 5 Tips on Being Real
When you’re a writer, I guess you become sort of a public person. It always kind of surprises me when that fact hits me in the face like at a booksigning or conference or when I meet someone who is actually excited to meet me (beyond like my Mom or whatever). And with the internet [...]
Ask Me Anything
Thanks to the awesomeness of zombie fans, I get quite a bit of email/twitter @s/Facebook posts and lots of times I just can’t get to all of them in a timely fashion. So today I’m asking you… ask me anything. I will either answer today OR I’ll make an entire blog post out of the [...]
Living Without Regret
Over the years I’ve learned something about myself. I regret what I don’t do more than what I do. Even if things don’t work out, at least I tried and lots of times supposed “failure” turns into a great lesson or opens the door to greater success. That’s how I ended up pursuing writing in [...]
