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Luke Reviews top 15 books of 2009

What a great way to ring in the new year. Luke Reviews put me in their top fifteen books of 2009. Check out the entire list here.
Also, if you haven't read Luke's review of Molly Fyde, it can be found on the old Luke Reviews site here.
The real challenge is upcoming. With MOLLY FYDE AND [...:]

Bucking Trends

Have you heard what some publishers are considering? They want to delay publication of ebooks until after their physical copies (read: hardbacks) have been on the market for a month or more. That means you early adopters get sloppy seconds (yeah, e-book formatting gets real sloppy compared to the nice, neat layout of print material).
This [...:]

Reflections and Predictions

Wow. What an amazing year this has been for me. I had some great visits with family, my relationship with my partner continues to improve upon perfection, we've all had good health, and I feel like I learned a heap over the past twelve months.
The highlight of the latter has to be the book adventure [...:]

Why some comics can tell a better story than books.

One of the greatest modern comics was Y – THE LAST MAN, an epic story about the last man on Earth. No, not the last human, the last man.
With his pet monkey, Yorick (the titular "Y") journeys across the United States, and then further abroad tracking down clues to his unique immunity to whatever killed [...:]

An update from under a foot of snow

Hello Mollys and Coles, Anlyns and Edisons, Walters and Handheld Computers. This update in the life of Hugh Howey is brought to you by the largest December snowfall in Boone's collective memory. Not that there hasn't been bigger ones, but anyone alive today, that was also alive back then, no longer has the cognitive functioning [...:]

Molly Fyde and the Land of Light

Okay, the manuscript has been turned into a book. That means the pages are laid out, the formatting is just the way I want it, I have the splash pages and maps in place, the headers and footnotes look good, and the page numbers are down in the corners, happy as little ticks in a [...:]

Book two is wrapped up

MOLLY FYDE AND THE LAND OF LIGHT is done. The messy bits of turning a story into a book are about to begin, hopefully culminating in a purchasable product sometime in February.
Meanwhile, I return to book three, the draft of which is about 80% done. I'm so excited for you guys to read the next [...:]

The Perfect Holiday Gift!

Give the gift of Molly this year! Trust me, they'll be glad you did.
The best way to snag a copy is through my publisher. It's like shopping "locally," but without all the driving. It helps out the little people.
If you need a discount (so you can buy half a dozen copies for every reader on [...:]

A Half-Assed Cover

NaNoWriMo WrapUp

Well, it's really, really official: I won NaNoWriMo 2009 (along with tens of thousands of others).
I uploaded my manuscript to their official word-count bots, and after they did their number-crunching thingy, I was directed to a page with the following graphic:

And this nice little note:
You did it, writer.
Pitted against a merciless deadline and battling hordes [...:]