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, […]
Category: Writer of Things
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 […]
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Box of Dreams
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 […]
Author Thoughts Today – Hurled – 091525 Have you ever side-armed a flat stone across a still pond and watched it skip? The harder the stone is hurled, the more it skips before giving in to gravity and slipping into the ultimate destination – the water of the pond. A Life of Faith is a […]
Author Thoughts Today No More Turning Away – 091125 As I packed away my laptop to head into the building at a job I had just started a week earlier with Roche Diagnostics in Indianapolis, I caught the tail end of a new broadcast that said a small private plane had crashed into the World […]
A cup of coffee on the deck with two cats watching the sun hiding behind a foggy shroud was my silent time this morning. One of the benefits of being unsupervised is the freedom to enjoy the peace and solitude of a new day. I listened for the still, small voice of God but only […]