Author Archives: jlodom

It Gets Easier. But Also, It Doesn’t

On Saturday I drove out of the dry and windy desert, through fog and rain-soaked mountains, to a city of angels by the ocean. All this, so that I could do a Jiu Jitsu competition. I sign up for these things many months ahead of time, when I am still coming down from the highContinue reading “It Gets Easier. But Also, It Doesn’t”

The Lucky Number Slevin Effect

There is this movie that, despite some highly inappropriate scenes and incredibly dark themes, I truly love. It’s a dark humor mystery movie where a hapless fellow and a bubbly neighbor find themselves caught in the crossfire of two different mobs. It is also something quite different than that. But I won’t tell you what,Continue reading “The Lucky Number Slevin Effect”

A Moment of Sharp Hypocrisy

So we had a few (minor) hiccups in the book upload process, the first of which my husband labored some hours to fix, the last of which was swiftly resolved and approved. But when that one small image was the wrong color on the eproof, and I saw we would have to revise the uploadContinue reading “A Moment of Sharp Hypocrisy”

A Discipline

My thoughts are scattershot right now, puncturing here, glancing off there, not really going anywhere. Not collected or concentrated enough to have proper depth. But, as we all know, writing is far more about discipline than inspiration, so here I am writing a blog post in the manner that one must fold laundry or doContinue reading “A Discipline”

Facing the Dragons and their Hoards

After years of largely avoiding his caverns, I finally decided to face the dragon of social media. I confess, I did it for his supposed treasures. There are riches of recognition and opportunity to be had, so they say, if you let the creature breath down your neck and encircle you and enchant you asContinue reading “Facing the Dragons and their Hoards”

So Here’s How This Goes

Self-publishing, it’s all the rage! Do your own thing! Get your book out there! Defy the masters of traditional publishing who say what books can and cannot be published! Right? Well, not exactly. I think there are some major pitfalls to hopping on the self-publishing train, which have very little to do with the steepContinue reading “So Here’s How This Goes”