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January 16, 2012
WOOL 5 is the 99% !!
We are legion. We are print-on-demand. Link for non-whippersnappers.
Coffee for a Caffeine-Free Writer
Due to the demands of my erstwhile editor, I have added a PayPal donate button to my front page. After seeing me dance in a silly hat, she wanted to know if there was any way in hell she could possibly give me a few bucks to never do that again. So there it is. [...]
January 15, 2012
JanNoWriMo and Pricing Woes
Wow. Talk about a crazy writing schedule. For the last two weeks or so, I've been getting up at 4, sometimes 3 in the morning to start writing. I've been writing on my lunch breaks, writing when I get home from work, all to get the awesomeness that is WOOL 5 out of my head [...]
January 13, 2012
Saturday Stitch and Bitch with Lyn Perry of ResAliens
Stitching and Bitching with me today is Lyn Perry of ResAliens fame. Lyn is the publisher of ResAliens Press and the editor of Residential Aliens, a quality zine of speculative fiction (with some of the best cover art I've seen anywhere. You should check it out). As Lyn starts asking his first question, I notice [...]
WOOL 5 on Wednesday, February 8th!
Did you arrive here after googling for Wool 5? Just finished tearing through Wool 1 through 4? I promise, the wait won't be long (can't guarantee it won't be agonizing, though). I've set February 8th as the release date. It's gonna be a crunch, but I'm writing as feverishly as you people are reading. I [...]
January 12, 2012
Why my ebooks will only be available on the Kindle
Well folks, I'm taking the plunge and adding the rest of my books to the KDP Select program. I experimented last month by putting Half Way Home and the Molly books into this program, and it's working out better than I could have anticipated. The Kindle Select program allows books to be given away for [...]
Totally not famous . . .
. . . and not cut out to be, I don't think. So here's when you know you aren't famous: It's when you start getting fan emails and tweets and you have to read every single one to your wife. Twice. It's when you're geeking out more from receiving the email than your "fan" probably [...]
Progress on Wool 5
Here's a Wool 5 update for all you eager devourers of books: I'm 80-85% done with the draft, which means I'm about to abandon the story so close to its conclusion and go back to the beginning to start revising. Why in the world do I do this? I have no idea. I've been doing [...]
January 11, 2012
The Upcoming Stitch and Bitch.
This upcoming weekend is going to herald the arrival of this website's first weekly "Saturday Stitch and Bitch." This is where I answer your questions and leave you in stitches, and you people bitch about release dates and stare at word count bars that don't seem to ever move fast enough (Wool 5 is coming, [...]
January 9, 2012
Gimme Five!
For all of you who aren't Facebook friends with me, you missed a hot mess tonight as I wrestled with the cover art for WOOL 5. Wowsers. I've seen better stuff on those napkins people leave under glass tabletops in seedy bars. This was more like what your kid doodles on the splatter menus with [...]
