I'm the Post-It queen; it's how I plot my novels. My bedroom door is covered with them.

Cripes, the stuff below is like a year out of date...I'll update it soon! (JCP - 11/19/08)

I'm experimenting with using the AlphaSmart Dana for my latest project. Note to self: BRING the Dana with you. Otherwise you can't write on it. Luckily for me, I found a few old forms that were blank on one side stashed in my dayplanner when inspiration struck yesterday between an appointment and my day job.

Below are my notes for Body & Soul. I'm relieved you can't actually read them. Some of the Post-Its are brilliant, I'm sure. While others say, "Really scary thing happens here," and other pearls of wisdom.

A bit of trivia: the brand name printed on all these Post-Its is a drug called Spectracef. It was my inspiration for Auracel, since it sounded somehow ghostly. (In reality, it's just an antibiotic. Man, the real world is so anticlimactic sometimes.)

It's crazy-cold here in Wisconsin, which is unusual, at least in the southern part of Wisconsin where I am. I used to live in Chicago, and I remember one New Year's Eve waiting for a bus and it was twenty below. Not the wind chill; the actual temperature. It sorta feels like that now, except I know it's just barely above zero.

I've got a new Mac, the very nicest iMac they now make. I expect it'll be paid off by the time I'm fifty or so. (Just kidding. Forty-nine.)

I've been teaching creative writing workshops occasionally for the past couple of years and I'm thinking it might not be the best thing for me creatively. I used to come out of them inspired, and maybe somehow validated. But lately they seem more draining. Of course, I just got the booklet for the most recent Rec Department course offerings and there's my name.

I've been working with Soundsdirty.com for the past few months. My name's not on the stories, but several of the characters there are my creation. They're a subscription-based site that offers erotica MP3s. So far, the favorite character of the ones I've written is Charlie. The actress who read for her got the ironic, "Damn, look, my clothes just fell off," tone exactly right. The site's geared toward straight men, but I suspect women would enjoy it too. My characters, anyway. One of the site's owners remarked that my writing felt like it was for women's benefit but he couldn't pinpoint why. I think if you're writing a sex scene from a woman's point of view, how could it be otherwise!

A deal with another audio site's in the works. I'll toot my horn about that once I get a contract in the mail. That one will be downloading one title at a time and paying per item rather than a subscription, so I think it will be more appealing to a wider audience. And all this audio stuff has got me looking into playwriting. Whew! I've been busy!

 

Novmber 19, 2008

Oh, look at this neglected author page! My biggest news lately is that Josh Lanyon has selected me to be his Partner in Crime! I should have a boatload of new stories out in December, including Camp Hell, the much-anticipated sequel to Secrets.

February 8, 2008

Working on changing the site layout to keep things fresh. Lately I've been lost in Zero Hour, a Sci-Fi novella that you can read for FREE if you sign up for my free monthly newsletter! For more up-to-date random thoughts, check out the PsyCop Blog.

December 14, 2007

Body and Soul is out! Hooray! and I'm hard at work on the followup. Check out the PsyCop Blog for the latest. Also be sure to sign up for my free newsletter on the home page. I'll be adding an exclusive serialized story that you won't want to miss.

February 2, 2007

I can hardly believe it's been less than a year. Torquere Press has released an anthology of Among the Living and Criss Cross, and now it's appearing at Amazon.com. It's so wild to see the Japanese page! Book #3 is in the works as we speak. I started it on Christmas. And since my web stats tell me that people actually read this page, I'll endeavor to put new content on it occasionally. Oh, and NaNoWriMo was a dud. I did finish, but what a stinky book. Toward the end, once I saw it was just hopeless, I started writing all kinds of weird crack. That was fun, anyway. 48,000 words of struggle and 2,000 words of crack.

November 15, 2006

Criss Cross: A PsyCop Novel is available now from Torquere Press! I was so crazy about Victor, Jacob, and everyone else that I just couldn't leave 'em alone. I'm supposed to be working on my NaNoWriMo project right now. As you might deduce, I'm not :-P

 

June 18, 2006

It lives! Among the Living is available for purchase at Torquere Press. Book #2 in this series is well underway. There's also a fun interview of me by my editor, Alex Draven. Learn what makes me tick! I've also got a new email addy, jordan (at) PsyCop.com. Feel free to write, I'd love to hear from you.

 

April 26, 2006

Edits are all finished up on PsyCop #1 - Among the Living. Whoo, I'm excited! The story has come a long way since I first imagined it. Victor Bayne was initially supposed to be a genie. A big, strapping, magic-wielding genie. And then he was going to be a demigod (a son of Hades who could command the dead.) But eventually I realized it was much more fun to read about someone who was fallible and human, and who got things wrong as much as he got them right. So Vic became a detective who just happens to be able to talk to dead people. I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it!

~jordan

 

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