B. J. Winters

I've decided to incorporate comments from Harper Collins and others into one final version of Ghost Writer.   Between September and December I'll post this a chapter at a time on Fiction Press. 

Key changes 1) Relationship with Nadiya, 2) Venue (Sacramento instead of Los Angeles), 3) More interaction with Bailey and Joel, and some additional information on Tom...

Perhaps it's a bit late to be posting a new years resolution - but I've had some time to reflect and prioritize this month.  Surprisingly looking back at 2009, I accomplished two book rewrites, and my favorite (Ghost Writer) continues to be fun to rip apart (ending currently on the cutting room floor).

For 2010 - I might look at how to establish this as a more formal writing platform - a more realistic blog.  But, I don't like to talk about myself, so I'll ne...

The original title for this story was Homecoming.  It was written via email over two years ago with a friend of mine.  And it was important, personally for me to put this together in a more finished format.  For now, I'll let this rest.  I think I'll polish it some more next year.  There is an annual contest I've seen that might be worth submitting to.   For now, I did what I needed to do and have a sense of closure.

I always wanted Cole a...

I wasn't really into the whole publication thing until it became a challenge.  It's an obsessive game now where I try to balance my personal pride with my compassionate nature.   I need to get back to writing, not marketing - but I'm not sure how to get back on track.   Both actually seem to be high stress these days.

So, I put a personal challenge in place and I shall be posting a revision to Second Sight later this week.  I decided ...

Thanks to a helpful suggestion from Joanna, I am starting to move the more polished version of Ghost Writer to Authonomy.   This will ultimately include the Second Sight content as "one" book.  I'd love a visit, or comment on the new version by all interested. 

I'll probably pull down all but three chapters of GW on Fiction Press at the end of the month.  I don't receive comments the...

For the last month I have spent countless hours trying to distill the content of Ghost Writer in to a brief synopsis - 8 or 9 magic sentences for an agent query letter.  And after 1) doing my research, 2) finding a name and checking it ten times, 3) writing a letter, a 2 page synopsis and polishing the first 10 pages of the novel and 4) spending half the day trying to format the stupid email.....I hit "send" about an hour ago.

I think I'm gonna be sick.  And I'm n...

I'm one of those people that likes to plot more than I like to write.  And when I start to write, things I never thought of appear on the page.   It's a bit odd, and sometimes rather interesting.  I can usually only see one chapter ahead -- sometimes as little as one scene.

I don't use an outline.  I actually hope that I'll write myself into a corner for the sheer pleasure of figuring out how all the pieces fit together - as though I'd planned it al...

I'm a low tech person by nature.  It's not that I dislike the internet and computers, but overall items that run on electricity or batteries dislike me.   I touch - they break.  Case in point, I tried making some modification to this site and have spent the last two days trying to figure out what key I touched that caused everything to stop working properly.

In the end, I let the computer win.   It's now happily huming and chewing on an old fil...

Have you ever seen a black witch moth?

A predictive omen of death in some latin cultures.  They are not the largest moth, but typically are 6 inches or larger and intimidating enough to be mistaken for bats.

In Spanish:::
Las polillas se alojan en ciertas partes de nuestras casas ya que, al ser de hábitos nocturnos, durante el día b...