Tales from FAR Manor

With a new car in the garage—a 2019 Kia Soul EX—I now have that critical extra seat to take both Mason and Charlie places. I still have the ...

Last week, Indie ReCon kicked off with a talk with Mark Coker of Smashwords, called What Authors Need to Know in 2015 . Of course, toward th...

Yvette Kate Willemse recently blogged about losing writing . From misplacing files to pressing the wrong button to using cast-off laptops ...

We—that is, those of us at Green Envy Press—are making the push into print this year. This came about a year after what I had planned, but...

Source: openclipart.org From Wikipedia: “ Escapist fiction is fiction which provides a psychological escape from thoughts of everyday l...

I always feel like somebody's watching me (And I have no privacy) —Rockwell I had a couple of things to share this week—an interview...

When I released the first three  Accidental Sorcerers  novellas, I had a good start on the next story in the series. That wasn’t the case fo...

This has been an interesting week. Maybe it was synchronicity, or maybe it was the universe sending a message. Anyway, let’s start with a ...

Feeding the Troll (or, the Winters of Our Discontent) In today’s column, I’m going to break a long-standing rule of mine and feed a troll....

Do traditional publishers think that bottom-feeding is the way to beat Amazon? This has been a disturbing week for anyone watching the p...

The current Twitter tempest, at least in the writing world, swirls around the issue of paid reviews. In a rare moment of unity, both the ind...

Big V came up here Wednesday and spent the night. “It’s for this week,” says the wife, “until she gets her glucose under control.” Like Th...

APPLE WANTS TO EAT YOUR COPYRIGHT! There has been a lot of sensationalist “reporting,” breathlessly repeated on Twitter, about the lice...

I came home Saturday evening from dropping M.A.E. off at her work (Burger King). Mason was stumping around on the floor, looking at his feet...

It appears that Twitter may want to curtail third-party Twitter clients . Now I think Mashable might be overstating the case a little, and t...

If the rest of this week goes as it’s begun, it’s made entirely of fail. It was a rough weekend for nearly everyone here, as the stomach/i...

Bottom line up top: Amazon rocks, State Farm sucks. As I wrote earlier, my Kindle screen went Tango Uniform early this month, a couple we...

Everyone welcome me back to the frustrating world of feature phones. Given the bills we have, Mrs. Fetched had been complaining for a long t...

A recent BBC article on “America’s original active retirement community” got me thinking. As many long-time readers know, the FAR in FAR Ma...

The feed truck came late last night, so no cannibal chickens this go-around. Whew! Came home from work, no dinner as usual… even though Mrs...