Interior book design is meditative in a way that’s hard to explain. Repetitive yet satisfying, like mowing the lawn. Ahh, the smell of cut grass! The way the afternoon sun reflects off the even rows behind me. But formatting books is better than mowing the lawn because I don’t have to contend with gasoline and hot metal, and there’s no grass to itch […]
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What It Means to Be Human
I believe people read to explore what it means to be human. Who doesn’t love to pick up a new book, and get whisked away on an unexpected adventure? To fall in love with journey, the people? They are beautiful and they are flawed. Just like you. It’s only natural to begin to empathize with their romance and their […]
A New Post-Apocalyptic Story!
The End of the World Is Better with Friends Sid is all alone at the end of the world, with only his robot and his garden to keep him company. He tends his plot, and tries to keep his distance from Slimeball, the lake monster the aliens left behind. But a hot spell and the […]
12 Days of Books, Christmas Giveaway
Holy wow, Christmas is coming up fast! To celebrate the holidays, I’m participating in a 12 Days of Books promotion with some very awesome authors. From now until Christmas, you can enter to win the whole set of 12 signed science fiction and fantasy books, including my own novel, The Auriga Project, E.J. Wenstrom’s Mud: Chronicles of the Third […]
In Search of a Better Reading Experience
I took some time this week to redo mgherron.com. What do you think? A lot cleaner, right? In search of a better reading experience, I switched themes on the site. This one (Make, if you’re wondering) loads much faster, has fewer bugs, and the style of the blog is more flexible. But above all, it’s clean and […]
Nothing + Time = Something
Blogging is exciting when I have news to share. It’s harder on all the other days, when I have so much I want to tell you but none of it seems like big news, none of it worthy of marking as time passes. So instead of making a new blog I shrug and let it slip by. Not today! […]
David Heinemeier Hansson on Flow State
Tim Ferriss recently interviewed David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails and winner of “world’s biggest endurance race: 24 hours of Le Mans.” Early in the interview, Tim and David had a fascinating discussion about creative flow state that I had to capture and share with you. DHH: It’s exciting, it’s a loud car […]
Good Distractions
I haven’t written much fiction since my last update. Tinkered on short story revisions and procrastinated like a champion on novel edits. But my time was not wasted. I spent most of my creative energy at the day job getting money to pay the bills. The rest of my time went into hunting for a new […]
A Tour of My Bookshelf
I’m experimenting with short book videos on my Facebook page. The first installment is a tour of my bookshelf! I’m posting them straight to my M. G. Herron Facebook page, but I’ve embedded the first video below for you to check out here. Next, I’m going to do some short book reviews, starting with The Word […]
Belly Breathe
I spent the weekend in severe pain when my back problems flared up again. At one point I had a muscle spasm so bad I was laid out for a whole day. I don’t write about my back pain very often, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this is the first time you’re hearing about it. […]