The last time I was in the confessional, I fessed up to my history as a professional wrestling fan. This time, I want to talk about a rather strange hobby I had about ten years ago. For two and a half years, I published a diary in an on-line forum…
Well, that was fast… Astute visitors to my website may have noticed a small change in the upper right corner. No, I’m not talking about the new MyBookProgress widget … well, actually I am talking about it, but the widget itself has been there for a few weeks now. No,…
This past Sunday evening, I dipped my toe back into the blogosphere (do they still call it that?) and asked some questions about what you’d want to see in my little corner of the internet. If you haven’t taken the time to share your opinion yet, please do so now!…
I don’t think it would surprise anyone if I say that I’m a huge fan of Star Wars. This isn’t new information, right? I practically grew up in the galaxy far, far away. It’s woven into every fiber of my being. One time, my siblings and I thought it would…
So this past Monday morning, I posted kind of a cryptic announcement on my Facebook page: It was a late night last night, but it was worth it, for now, the time has come to kill some dragons.Let the reader understand. Posted by John W. Otte on Monday, August 17,…
My goodness, I kind of disappeared there, didn’t I? Last time I reported in, I said that I had hit a kind of milestone in my work-in-progress, the (still!) untitled first book in a science fiction trilogy that might be called “The Iron Staff Trilogy” (although truth be told, I’m…
So what is Realm Makers? It is the preeminent conference for writers of Christian speculative fiction. This past weekend, somewhere around 150 people gathered in St. Louis to listen to keynote speaker Robert Liparulo, attend classes and seminars on the craft of writing, pitch to agents and editors, and generally…
Okay, so earlier today, I posted another Geek Confessional entry about how I wrote four scripts for three different TV shows when I was in college. I summed up the plots and then shared that I didn’t have copies of the scripts anymore. Apparently some of you thought that was…
So as a lot of you know, I’ve published four books with Enclave Publishing with a fifth on the way. I’ve been included in two anthologies and written two novellas. But I bet you didn’t know that I also wrote four scripts for three different TV shows.
Let me tell you a little story about brainstorming my current work-in-progress, Book #1 of the Iron Staff Trilogy.