The second week of NaNoWriMo proved to be a special challenge this year.  I’m trying to get a short story together for a submission in the hopes of getting it published, keeping up with a few writing...

Frozen Burrito Count: 9 Ounces of Iced Tea: 864 Number of Times I had to listen to “No Rain” to get it out of my head: 3 Times I had to tell my spellchecker that my main...

Hey, boys and girls–here is my Final PAWS and NaNoWriMo Update, for what is hopefully your reading pleasure! I completed the November Challenge of writing 50,000 words of a novel (or a 50,000 word novel) during the...

It’s the night of November 28th. I hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving! I did, and despite my fears, I wasn’t slowed down too, too much by the holiday festivities and the tryptophan-laced turkey. I’m now at...

Editor’s note: this update got lost in MY holiday shuffle and should have been up last week. Hopefully we’ll have good news from the post-holiday update! Day: 23 Frozen Burrito Count: 8 Number of times the Inspiration...

Week Three is here in the NaNoWriMo schedule, with only one week and two days left in the month. How am I doing? In my attempt to write the book I had intended to title Lily and...

The first year I attempted NaNoWriMo, I did not take it very seriously.  With two kids, a full-time job, part-time coursework towards a doctorate, and an ex-husband who did not understand the phrase “court-ordered child support,” I...

Yikes! The pressure is building, even though it’s of the self-imposed type, because I still want to meet the challenge I’ve placed upon myself to complete Lily and PAWS: The Thirteen Ghosts of Summer. I’m currently at 23,703...

It’s that time of year again where I put myself through a very special brand of self-imposed insanity.  I set the goal to write 50,000 words in thirty days, although I aim to write around 2,000 words...

Day: 8 Frozen Burrito Count: 4 Ounces of Iced Tea: 240 Frozen Pizzas: 1 Word count: 10,963

It’s time for my first update on how the novel I’m attempting to complete, Lily and PAWS: The Thirteen Ghosts of Summer, is coming along! As you might recall, I decided, in perhaps a rash moment, to...

I, Douglas R. Cobb, long-time book reviewer and interviewer of authors here at BookSpot Central, am going to enter the fray of battle and toss my hat into the ring to also earn the laurels of praise...