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See you tonight in Winnipeg! (then Denver, Austin, Houston…) (!)

Thanks to everyone who’s come out for the Walkaway tour so far! Tonight, I’ll be appearing at Winnipeg’s McNally Robinson bookstore, then it’s off to Denver’s Tattered Cover, Austin’s Book People and Houston’s Brazos Bookstore.

From there, the tour takes me to Scottsdale/Phoenix (where I’m appearing with Brian David Johnson), San Diego, Portland (where I’m appearing with Andy “Waxy” Baio), Seattle (where I’m appearing with Neal Stephenson), Bellingham, Vancouver and Burbank — the US/Cana...

How to support a writer’s career

Since the earliest days of my novel-writing career, readers have written to me to thank me for my books and to ask how they can best support me and other writers whose work they enjoy. Nearly 15 years later, I have a pretty comprehensive answer for them!

Writers’ commercial and critical fortunes are intertwined: a writer whose books perform well is a writer whose publisher buys and promotes more books from them, creating a virtuous cycle, as promotions beget more sales and more promotions...

My column about Snowden, surveillance and WALKAWAY in the International Business Times

I have a column in today’s International Business Times: Unchecked Surveillance Technology Is Leading Us Towards Totalitarianism, where I discuss this week’s NYPL event with Edward Snowden and how mass surveillance connects to the themes in my novel Walkaway.

In my science fiction novel Walkaway, I see an optimistic escape from the looming surveillance disaster. It imagines people oppressed by surveillance might “walk away” and found a parallel society where citizens’ technological know...

A chat with the NEA, about WALKAWAY and sundry subjects

The National Endowment for the Arts podcast recorded a great, wide-ranging interview with me (MP3) about my novel Walkaway and a variety of subjects, from copyright reform to arts funding to the future of the arts and technology.

Chicagoans! Where to find me and Max Temkin on the Walkaway tour!

On Sunday, I’ll be appearing at Chicago’s Volumes Books with Max “Cards Against Humanity” Temkin, as part of the Walkaway tour (which includes stops tonight in Chapel Hill at Flyleaf Books with Mur Lafferty; tomorrow in Cincinnati at Joseph Beth; and more dates in Winnipeg, Denver, Austin, Houston, Scottsdale/Phoenix, San Diego, Portland, Seattle, Bellingham, Vancouver and Burbank, before I head to the UK).

I bring it up again both as a friendly reminder and because there’s been a venue ch...

Weaponized narrative: the stories we tell change our theories about the world

My latest Locus Magazine column is Weaponized Narrative, about the pulp fiction convention of mashing up “man against nature” stories with “man against man” stories to tell “man against nature stories” (first the tornado smashes your house, then your neighbors come over to eat you).

These stories only work if you suspend your disbelief about what actually happens in times of crisis, what the evidence shows: that people rise to the occasion, cover themselves in glory, pitch in and help one...

Walkaway tour! Richmond, Chapel Hill, Cincinnati, Chicago and more!

I’m in New York City today for the Walkaway tour and the event — an onstage conversation with Edward Snowden — is sold out (you can watch the livestream free, starting 7PM eastern), but there’s still space at my upcoming events.

I’ll be at Richmond, VA’s Fountain Bookstore at 6:30PM on May the 4th (yes, Star Wars day!), then Chapel Hill’s Flyleaf Books on May 5 with the amazing Mur Lafferty, then Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Cincinnati, and then Chicago for an on-stage event with Cards Again...

Watch the livestream for tomorrow’s NYPL discussion of Walkaway with Edward Snowden

I’m on the US tour for my new novel Walkaway (I’ll be at DC’s Politics and Prose tonight), and tomorrow, I’m doing a sold-out appearance with Edward Snowden onstage at the New York Public Library; although the event is packed, I’ve just learned that there will be a free livestream starting at 7PM Eastern.

See you tomorrow in DC (then NYC, Richmond, Chapel Hill, etc!)

My US/Canadian tour for my novel Walkaway continues tomorrow with a 7PM event at Politics & Prose; I’m in NYC the next night (with Edward Snowden) and it’s sold out but you might be able to get some rush tickets; then on to Fountain Books in Richmond, VA; then Flyleaf in Chapel Hill.

There are lots more stops to come: Cincinnati, Chicago, Winnipeg, Austin, Houston, Scottsdale, San Diego, Portland, Seattle, Bellingham, Vancouver and Burbank — then onto the UK and stops in Oxford, London, L...

Announcing the Walkaway audiobook, with Wil Wheaton, Amber Benson, Amanda Palmer and more!

Here’s Wil Wheaton reading “Communist Party,” the opening chapter of “Walkaway,” my first novel for adults since 2009’s “Makers.” Wil is joined on the independently produced audiobook by Amber Benson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Amanda Palmer (The Dresden Dolls), Mirron Willis, Gabrielle de Cuir, Lisa Renee Pitts and Justine Eyre. It was directed by Gabrielle de Cuir for Skyboat Media and mastered by John Taylor Williams for Wryneck Studios. You can buy the 15-hour DRM-free audiobook for $24...