Book Release

Blood on Blood is out!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008TB9JAO

Announcement

Something that has always been a hope and a dream for me, just became reality.


Please go here.

http://hardboiledpartners.blogspot.com/


Thanks, JW

Starting Over

My last post on this poor blog was almost a year ago. Hard to believe. There is a definite echo and I'm sure I'm talking to myself here.At any rate, I have almost entirely gutted this place and started over. There is plenty to still do here, plenty of gaps to fill in on contacts, friends and place but I'll get there.


Right now though, this is a gateway I hope to a new blog that Frank Zafiro and I have now. We created Hardboild Partners in Crime http://hardboiledpartners.blogspot.com/ to launch our upcoming new novel titled Blood on Blood. I can also tell you that there are plans to not stop the co-author partnership.


Please head over Hardboiled Partners and see what the hell this is all about....


Thanks, JW

Novel

No big thing just an update for somebody who might pass through here. I'm still plugging away on rough chapters for the novel I'm co-writing with my partner Frank. Not a lot else going on but someday maybe we'll have something.

A long time coming

For those who might see this. It has been a longtime coming but for several months now, I have been working on co-writing a novel with a good friend of mine who is a successful writer and is currently in law enforcement. I am going to commit all the time I have in this project and it will be a long one. This is what I have always wanted to do. Write a full length novel and this is my chance.

I also have family time which comes first and of course work which is overwhelming at times. I will be back when I can on here to update and hopefully at some point announce a completed published book.

Thanks, JW 

A Story In Print

Recently, Midwest Literary Magazine accepted my story Dead Reckoning for their online October issue. Today, I recieved the exciting news that it had additionally been chosen for a book publication titled Bearing North. To say I'm a little pumped up about this is a tremendous understatement. It's available right now through MLM - the title of this post is a link and some additional information is below.

-JW

Writing The Ship

No, that’s not a new story I have, it’s more of a play on words to describe my efforts lately to get back on course in terms of writing. For over a year, I was floundering around in the water with no land in sight and it’s been a struggle to get back upright. I have been trying to write whenever I can; late evening and even later sometimes, very early in the morning and weekends of course.

It’s difficult when you can’t devote the time you need to (and want to) because I find it to be like so many other things. The more you do it, the better you are and the more you want to continue. There is a certain gathering momentum and rhythm to it if you can keep it going.

I realize this is not exactly headline news to any writer. No one has all the time they want to write but I will say that there are certain times of a person’s life where priorities or conditions that will affect the actual ability to write take precedence. In many cases, I believe that’s the way it should be.

I have always felt that it’s the ultimate in me-first selfishness for me to set aside certain things in favor of what I want. I’ll be the first to admit that writing is something that I want to do and I certainly have a true passion, if not an addiction, for it but I just can’t put it above certain things in life. Can’t do it, won’t do it. I’ll pay for that a lot of times because the volume of work and even the quality of writing suffers greatly if the body and head are not signed on 100%.

I do not look at myself as righteous and special, there are a helluva lot of writers out there who make the same hard decisions on life’s responsibilities and duties versus just Taking the time to write when it really isn’t there. Don’t get me wrong on this, it’s just my opinion.

With all that being said, when the brief windows of opportunity do present themselves, then I try to write.  Scrambled thoughts but it seemed important to write this down. 

 - JW