Author: JRVogt

I’m not quite sure what to make of this. There are many different versions of the Bible out there already. Do we really need another one? Especially one where people edit the Scriptures to include…zombies? I can just envision that fifty years in the future, after the economy collapses and…

Back in town. My grandfather’s surgery went well, considering it involved having his ribcage split open and other such tasty details. Thanks to all who sent notes of encouragement. Sliding back into the blog this week with a few links on one of the most important things concerning a novel.…

I’ll be around, just sporadically. Visiting family, especially my grandfather who is having open heart surgery tomorrow. Thoughts and prayers are appreciated. Happy a-few-days-until-Easter!  Subscribe in a reader

A little something to salve the wounds of my gullibility. Heh. Some of you wondered if my last post about the Frito’s sponsorship of the Online Writing Workshop was an April Fool’s Joke of my own. It was a joke, but one OWW successfully pulled on me with their recent newsletter…

Hmm. I have mixed feelings about this. As many of you know, I’ve been part of the Online Writing Workshop for almost a year now, which requires a paid subscription, but has not only gotten me a ton of marvelous feedback on my work, but has also put me in…

Sadly, that is the timetable set for the last book in Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series, which–since Robert Jordan passed away–is being finished up by one of my favorite authors, Brandon Sanderson. The last book, A Memory of Light, has been announced by Tor as being split into three…

…here in Colorado, just last week we had blizzard conditions blanket the city. Then it got all sun-shiney on us for the next couple days and melted almost all of it away. Then we wake up yesterday morning to it slipping another inch or two of snow in before getting…

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I’m not sure if there’s an exception out there (and if so, let me know), but every time a book is made in to a film, anyone who has read the book and seen the film inevitably says, “The book was better.” It seems somewhat par for course now that…

Since I’m one to hate texting–not because I’m a luddite in any sense…I just suck at it–I’m pretty sure I won’t be catching on to this new fad.  Cell phone novels Use your phone to write a novel or short story, then upload it and sell. Perhaps get it converted…