Joe Beernink
Author of NOWHERE WILD, NOWHERE HOME
Monthly Archives: June 2010
I’ve been cruising through my latest novel and have surpassed the 40000 word mark, which is the magical half way point. But if I’m honest with myself, I’ve cheated a bit, and that cheating is coming back to haunt me. You see, three years ago, I started on a book, got twenty pages into it, and stopped. It was one of those cases where I had a good scene in mind, but… Read More
I’ve added a new short story to my collection called ‘Under A Molten Sky’, a contest entry for the Wil Wheaton/John Scalzi Fan Fiction Contest to Benefit the Lupus Alliance of America. You can read the whole thing here. The contest winners won’t be announced until the end of the summer, but whether or not I win, I still enjoyed writing it. I am currently preparing for the 2010 PNWA Conference in… Read More
It’s a nice day in the PNW, so what do I do? I upgrade my web site to ASP.NET MVC 2.0, .NET 4 and VS2010. Not too hard, but needed to be done. I needed to get this done in order to prep for the 2010 PNWA Conference in July. I’ve updated some information there, including posting a new short story that I entered in the Wil Wheaton/John Scalzi Fan Fiction Contest… Read More
I haven’t been writing here lately, because I’ve been writing elsewhere a lot lately. As in my latest novel. I’m hovering around the 35000 word mark, which in the world of 80000 word novels, is, you guessed it, almost halfway done. I’m not going to spill the beans on this one yet, but when I read what I have done, it is easily my best work ever, and I think, really freaking… Read More
As I said in my last blog post, I’ve been reading a lot lately, at almost a dangerous pace. So much so fast that it seems I could have a reading crash and injure my dictionary. But I still am not as bad as my wife, who I caught reading while she was walking down the stairs two nights ago. In a house with kids, not watching where you are going is… Read More
It’s been almost a month since my last post, and I’m on the train, so his may be a bit jumbled. The biggest news is that Reece has finally come to terms with potty training. We spent a weekend really close to the bathroom, took away his diaper, and set a timer to go off every half hour. We gave him a warning five minutes before the timer was going to go… Read More
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