A miscellany of random thoughts, geekery, reviews and other mysterious stuff careening around my addled brain.
We’ve survived.
If you recall, us southerners purchased a property up north. Far north. About as far as you can go before we have to change citizenship.
As the timing would have it, we ended up spending the winter here too. Lots of cozy days and nights spent by the wood stove. Even a brief dip down to wind chills of -27…
The coming wave of AI creators has the creative community on edge. Artists, writers, and performers are understandably worried our robot overlords will subvert the creative process, take human jobs, and generally make artists’ lives miserable. What’s really happening though… Read More ›
Long silence here but never truly quiet. Always the keys go clack clack clack. A common writer’s mantra – best thing you can be doing is writing the next book. The next story. The next script. The next poem. Whatever… Read More ›
I’m currently plugging away at book two of the upcoming series. And while I peruse old photos and leaf through trail maps, I’m reminded of how much I miss this place…
Our guest arrived early, just outside the living room window. Being cordial new neighbors, we invited him inside…
Between the complete surrendering of privacy AND the bizarre psychological experiment we’ve all been enrolled in without proper consent, I’m going to once again sound the alarm that this is a technology run amok…
First off: The current word count for the first book of my Thriller series is at 82,366.
I’d planned for 80k and after a solid editing pass, it might get cut down to that. But right now, the hero is locked in the back of a squad car in the middle of a raging gun battle and has to figure out how to escape before he can take down the militia sent to round him up…
Curveballs. Life is an ace with these. Finally, after a month and a half, I’m back at the thriller project. Needless to say, this will delay things a bit. But the goal is still to have three books out early… Read More ›
Go far enough north into Maine and you reach what some call the final remnants of the lower 48’s unspoiled frontier. Over the two hundred and fifty or so years of this nation’s history, the vast stretch of wilderness and… Read More ›
This update is all about my latest publishing project. That project will also take some time, but I’ve got a lot more say over the scheduling. Book one of this thriller series is currently at 35,000 words. A solid start for what will be a three book release with more on the way…
RUSS LINTON 