Scott D. Parker: Writer

I received my newsletter from Blue Willow Book Shop this week and was happy to learn that Mary Doria Russell is coming to Houston next mont...

With my first book, Treason at Hanford, I outlined the entire novel, scene by scene, on 4x6 index cards. In fact, at one point, when my fell...

I'm still laughing... Who says cliches are not true? Go here and watch. This video is done so well, it's a wonder I didn't remem...

When I started this blog, I decided to keep politics out of it. However, something happened today. Senator Barack Obama, reacting to recent...

Call me bi-curious. No, not in that way. I’m talking in the way of romance books. I’m a red-blooded American male. I write mysteries, I ...

It's always a reassuring thing when I read about the travails of other authors. One of the biggest problems I've had with my second ...

Over at SF Signal, there was a discussion last week framed around this question: Q: Are science fiction book series a barrier to gaining ne...

The writing group I'm a member of down here in Houston has an interesting little exercise: compose your memoir in six words. Here are tw...

Just the other day, I posed a question to my wife: are there times when you feel compelled to go out in the shop to create not because of so...

Over at one of the boards devoted to the band Chicago, there was a question regarding eras in the band. The question was whether or not the ...

Since my last entry, I've only written about 400+ new words. As of today, I'm stopping the old/new words list. It's now just tot...