More Steampunk Western Miniatures

Miniatures for Worldbuilding I know, I’ve been writing a lot about Hero Forge recently, but when…

My Steampunk Western Miniatures in Color

Create and Color Your Own Gaming Miniatures As you’ll quickly see if you peruse this blog,…

The Creedverse Series Bible: Behind the Scenes

A Behind-the-Scenes Peek at Jonathan Fesmire’s “Creedverse”   Last week I created a survey to ascertain…

Build a Rabid Fanbase – A Course Review

The Teacher Will Appear   I’m an author, and I love writing. Years ago I learned…

Learn to Write a Great Novel

  Writing a novel, especially for the first time, is a huge endeavor. Many, maybe most,…

Getting Your First Draft Done

  MY FIRST DRAFT, YOUR FIRST DRAFT   If you’ve read my blog before you may…

This Year’s Queer Sci-Fi Anthology: Innovation!

  innovation!   For the second year in a row, I’m proud to say that I…

Age 50 Accomplishments

It’s my 51st birthday! It feels like a good day to share some recent accomplishments. I…

Adapting a Video Concept to Books

  I’m old enough to remember, as an adult, the shift from movies on VHF to…

The Hero’s Journal – Review

The Year of Getting THings Together I mentioned a few weeks ago how my friend and…

A Writer’s Secret Weapon: The Series Bible

  What Is a Series Bible?   For years, writers and agents pitching television shows have…

How To Visualize Characters with TPDNI and FaceApp

  Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there! Now, on to the topic of…

My Writing Process

Every writer works differently. If you’ve been writing long, and studying your craft, you already know…

Time for You to Journal

The Year of the Suck Here we are almost in the middle of 2020. My friend…

Photographs from Another Universe

There’s this fun site I’ve been playing with for the last year that I want to…

Win Mandalorian Swag for Star Wars Week!

A New Giveaway   Do you love Disney’s The Mandalorian? I sure do, and it bears some…

I Got my Bodacious Creed Minis!

  Bodacious Creed Minis In a recent post, I shared the miniatures I created on Hero…

Heroes and Tomatoes

It has been quite a good week for me. It seems wrong to say that in…

A General Update

  In general, I like to have a single topic to write about in my blog…

A New Beginning

A New Beginning A quick confession: I have not done the best job at branding my…

Adventure and Beauty: Frost and Edwardian Chapeau Patterns by McCall’s

The Patterns I say I’m busy often, because I am, but boy, the last couple of…

Bodacious Creed Dice Are Here!

You may remember that when I ran my recent Indiegogo campaign for Bodacious Creed and the…

Getting Back to the World of Bodacious Creed

Background My novel, Bodacious Creed: a Steampunk Zombie Western, has been out for nearly a year…

Cosplay by McCall’s: Copper Maiden & Wastelander

The Patterns I can hardly believe it’s already July 1, 2018! The year is half over!…

My Ghostly Father’s Day Gift

My son and I were at Disney California Adventure today, and I picked up something he…