Now that Craig Hart and I are poised to release SpyCo #6, Assignment: Dublin, (our 4th book together), I feel it's time to address some of the... I must call them what they are... bloodcurdlingly frightening similarities between the two of us. I'll start with the fact that both of our wive's are named Kim. … Continue reading Craig and Scott – A List of Similarities
Month: January 2018
Some Reviews
I am a proud member of Goodreads, both as an author and as an avid reader. One of this site's best features is its annual readers' challenge, in which it asks members to pick the number of books he wants to read for the year, and then tracks his progress. This will be the second … Continue reading Some Reviews
Another Assignment Completed!
As of about 4 pm, Eastern, Craig A. Hart and I finished our final edits on the newest episode in the SpyCo novellas, Assignment: Dublin. OK, I finished this afternoon, he finished last night. Here are some fun facts: This took us longer than any of the previous Assignments to write, BUT in our defense, … Continue reading Another Assignment Completed!
All Our Writing Secrets…
It's been very cold here in Central New York. I'm talking below zero on a regular basis cold. When it's this cold there are only a few things I enjoy doing, and most of them I can't talk about here. Because they involve things like shoe sales and peel and eat shrimp. I also … Continue reading All Our Writing Secrets…
Website Blues
This blog has been around almost exactly as long as my official website, sjvarengo.com. It was started to capitalize on the fact that feed from the blog will show up on my Amazon.com Author page, a function which my website cannot provide. Originally the website had a lot of extra features that the blog didn't, … Continue reading Website Blues
Cerah of Quadar Cover Redesigns
Although my writing over the past several months has taken me in new directions, my thoughts have been recently drifting back to my first two novels, collectively the Cerah of Quadar series, and I've been dealing with the fact that I have never really been happy with the cover design. I was talking with a … Continue reading Cerah of Quadar Cover Redesigns
Dublin Dispatch #5 – The Essentials
Since my first post during my all-expense-paid vacation to Ireland... AUGH there goes that autocorrect again! It was supposed to say "grueling grind of non-stop research with no fun and certainly no chasing after pretty girls or pub crawling I can assure you." I'm beginning to think Craig has tampered with my keyboard. Nonetheless, now that … Continue reading Dublin Dispatch #5 – The Essentials
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