Opening: A Halloween Story That Refuses to Stay in One World A Halloween party is a familiar story setting, but Mirror Mirror takes that starting point into territory involving murder, possession, time travel, and parallel realities. Looking back at the finished novel, was there a particular moment when you realized the story had grown into […]
Category: Writer of Things
Maybe the Ninja Isn’t Dead… I received an unsolicited email this morning from a book marketer that blew me away. True, it may have been written by an AI bot, but it was something I’d pushed out of my mind nearly ten years ago when I wrote “Confessions of a Performance Ninja.” I’d been downsized […]
1 – The Swamp Southeastern Virginia has an area known as the Great Dismal Swamp. Adjacent to the swamp is a series of canals that connect to a body of brackish water known as Back Bay. A series of narrow channels feed into the bay and are fed by tidal waters, and a favorite fishing […]
As a self-published author and victim of an elaborate publisher scam out of the UK, I’m attempting “Plan B” to avoid the avalanche of scammers posing as readers, authors, agents, and even publishers who appear to troll virtually every author networking site. This post is intended to promote second-level, two-way discovery with a legitimate agent, […]
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The Undaunted One
The sixth book in the Dreamscape Conspiracy, “Undaunted,” is loaded with implications of a world where Artificial Intelligence blurs the line between what is organic (human) and the mystery of evolving AI technology named AIMEE. Undaunted – 061026 Undaunted, Such a powerful word. Out of necessity Or choice? An accurate description, Of action, From […]
The storyline I’d been working on for “Undaunted” held me captive for most of the day. That’s a good thing when that happens, but it’s exhausting. Maybe that’s just a convenient excuse to step out for a glass of wine, and I caved under the pressure of that thought, heading for my favorite local microbrewery, […]
Give Chase… What’s funny to me, and almost scary, is how God’s Spirit orchestrates circumstances driven by a plan I cannot see. He brought me here, to this place, this moment, to find a post buried in an archive rarely checked, to be a perfectly timed reminder. It’s not snowing yet, but it’s coming… * […]
My marketing Jedi has requested an update bio, so here it is…until the next iteration… Gary G. Wise is a redeployed, unsupervised, and occasionally undisciplined Writer of Things living as a free-range author under the influence of his Relentless Wench Muse, who manages to remain just out of reach. He left corporate life quite toasted […]
I enjoy sitting on the deck watching a late summer thunderstorm approach. Even without seeing the dark clouds building, you can feel it. Anticipate the arrival even before the first leaf stirs. There’s a storm coming. Conditions are perfect for strong winds of influence, potentially damaging… not property, but feelings, and unleashing flash floods of […]
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Never Alone
Wounds heal, but scars last a lifetime. They say, “Living with grief is a journey.” To me, it’s more than a journey because journeys have beginnings and ends, defined starting points and specific destinations. Loss has a defined starting point when grief begins, but there is no destination, no end, no cure. There is an […]