P.W. Cross's Blog

I’ve been thinking about this—my first post on writing—for some time now. There are many areas I could have focused on: point of view, scene definition, character development, . . . Or I could have discussed writing tools: text editors, outliners, grammar checkers, . . . And then there’s the tsunami of information surrounding publication and marketing. Whoo!

So I asked myself: What’s most important to me? What’s the one thing that makes or breaks everything else for me as a fantasy book writer?...

While browsing the internet the other day, I came across  information on a joint partnership between NASA and the DLR (German Aerospace Center) called GRACE that got me thinking about apples. In particular, Sir Isaac Newton and the apple!

You have probably heard the story about Newton and the apple, and how he came up with the idea of gravity when an apple fell from a tree and hit him on the head. Well, it turns out the apple didn’t actually hit him, but just the same was the spark the got him ...

It’s here!

The ebook version of The Idea Miners: The Lost Lake Dig is now available as a kindle book on Amazon.com.

The price is only $2.99! —And it’s also available for free on Kindle Unlimited.

That’s only $2.99 for 281 exciting pages of fantasy adventure! (Or 71,615 words if you prefer a more appropriate ebook metric).

A little backstory behind the ebook release:

I must admit the ebook version has been a long time coming. I should have released it years ago, but life got in...

My first book in The Idea Miners series, The Lost Lake Dig, ended with the line “Ideas define us: our past, our present, and most importantly, our future.“

In today’s world of instant communications, it’s possible, like no time before, to watch as new ideas evolve and shape our future. But it can also be enlightening to look back and see how past ideas have set the groundwork.

As a computer science major in college, many years ago, I remember researching the developing internet architecture—t...

Its here! The ebook version of The Idea Miners: The Lost Lake Dig is now available as a kindle book on Amazon.com. The price is only $2.99! And its also available for free on Kindle Unlimited. Thats only $2.99 for 281 exciting pages of fantasy adventure! (Or 71,615 words if you prefer a more appropriate ebook metric). A little backstory behind the ebook release: I must admit the ebook version has been a long time coming. I should have released it years ago, but life got in the way. Having...

Its here! The ebook version of The Idea Miners: The Lost Lake Dig is now available as a kindle book on Amazon.com. The price is only $2.99! And its also available for free on Kindle Unlimited. Thats only $2.99 for 281 exciting pages of fantasy adventure! (Or 71,615 words if you prefer a more appropriate ebook metric). A little backstory behind the ebook release: I must admit the ebook version has been a long time coming. I should have released it years ago, but life got in the way. Having...

While browsing the internet the other day, I came across  information on a joint partnership between NASA and the DLR (German Aerospace Center) called GRACE that got me thinking about apples. In particular, Sir Isaac Newton and the apple! You have probably heard the story about Newton and the apple, and how he came up with the idea of gravity when an apple fell from a tree and hit him on the head. Well, it turns out the apple didnt actually hit him, but just the same was the spark the got him...

There is little argument that technology has quickened the pace of our lives. We zip around in automobiles, zap our lunches in microwave ovens, chat with distant friends on our cell phones. But does all of this zipping and zapping and long-distance chatting have a price. I think so. It focuses our attention on the [...]

The Idea Miners: The Lost Lake Dig Has been selected as the January 1213 Book of the Month by the Indie Book Club on GoodReads.com. What a great way to begin the year! Happy New Year! PW Ideas define us, our past, our present, and most importantly, our future. –Last line [...]

Christopher Columbus landed on the shores of America in 1492 while searching for a route from Europe to the East Indies. And while he did not find the route to the East Indies, his voyage did show that the world was very large and round. Four hundred years later, at a celebration of Christopher Columbus [...]