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Book Signing Day!

Today is book-signing day. Twelve hours of signing books for friends, family, and complete strangers (and those of you that qualify as all three). Your support determines your rank. Here's what you can do, and what it qualifies you for:
Admiral Fans: Show up tomorrow and cry in front of strangers, telling them how absolutely divine [...:]

A "Mighty" big thank-you to the WIXE team

What a wonderful experience! The team at 1190 AM (The "Mighty" WIXE) had me on their "Talk of the Town" show this morning. I'd like to thank Shane and J.J. for making me feel at home and putting on a wonderful show.
Here's how it went down: our great family friend, Marion Holloway, met my father [...:]

The dying gasp of traditional publishing…

Here's a great article on the pricing madness of Dan Brown's new blockbuster. With an industry in peril, we're getting a dose of the poison that killed it, to see if that will make it better.
http://www.bookbusinessmag.com/articl...
It's homeopathic retail. About as smart as a government trying to solve a runaway boom and bust cycle by lowering [...:]

Q&A with the Enquirer Journal

This last weekend, I went camping with my wife to "get away from it all." Which made it a perfect time for Elisabeth Arriero to call from the Enquirer Journal and interview me on my book and the publishing experience.
So I sat at our campsite and blabbed for a full hour, wondering which sentence or [...:]

Home again.

I just arrived in Monroe, North Carolina, my childhood home. Sitting at the dining room table of my father's old farm house, a place where I spent many meals reading the book in my lap while we ate our meals, it seems a bit surreal to think of myself as a writer. Maybe it'll take [...:]

Dying to talk to someone?

You just finished reading Molly Fyde and the Parsona Rescue and you're dying to talk to someone. I feel your pain and I'm here to help. In our forums, I've created five threads for each of the book's sections. Jump in and leave a thought, ask a question, file a complaint, or just quote a [...:]

Purchase from NorLightsPress

Yeah, Amazon says the book is "Temporarily out of stock." That's what you procrastinators get for waiting five whole days before ordering your copy.
No fear, you can still order a book and it'll get out to you as soon as more are available (shouldn't be long). Or, you can do one better by purchasing directly [...:]

How did I get here?

I have a tendency of looking at my toes. Metaphorically. When I perform tasks, I get lost in the minutia of each step, concentrating on making things line up perfectly, editing down to the pixel-level, agonizing over every jot and nuance. In some ways, the overall task doesn't interest me as much as each individual [...:]

Book Review: Daemon

Daniel Suarez's Daemon is an amazing story. And I'm not talking about the actual plot; for that, the word "Amazing" would not suffice. No, I am referring to the incredible series of events which are leading up to its publication and release on January 8th.
After writing Daemon back in 2004, Suarez faced the [...:]

NorLightsPress

How cool is this? My publisher and I are debuting at the same time. Just as my book is being released, the technical wizards at NLP have unveiled a new-look website.
The change is more structural than cosmetic. Which is good, because they already had one of the most pleasing sites out there. And I'm not [...:]