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Another new interview with me

Grimdark Magazine #12 is now available. The contents include new stories by Anna Smith-Spark, Luke Scull, and William Stiteler and interviews with Richard A. Knaak, Michael J. Sullivan, and me. You can get the Kindle edition here:
https://www.amazon.com/Grimdark-Magazine-Issue-Richard-Byers-ebook/dp/B073RRCQG9/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499496748&sr=8-1&keywords=grimdark+magazine+12

New interview with me

New interview with me focusing on my new book THIS SWORD FOR HIRE.
http://rothcopress.com/the-fantasy-life-of-richard-lee-byers/

This Sword for Hire is now available

Available now! This Sword for Hire collects all the stories (so far) about my sword-and-sorcery hero Selden, which is to say, some of my favorite stuff. Check it out here:
https://www.amazon.com/This-Sword-Hire-Richard-Byers/dp/194543600X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1497368696&sr=8-1&keywords=this+sword+for+hire+richard+lee+byers

Lovecraftian Tales (with a new story by me) is now available

Lovecraftian Tales is now available! All-new horror stories by a bunch of terrific writers. Plus, I've got something in there, too.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071W37XZR/

Thank you, Oasis 29

Thanks to Oasis 29 in Orlando for having me as an author guest this weekend. It was a great con and I had a terrific time.

My programming schedule for Gen Con 50

People are even now compiling their Wish Lists of Gen Con events in preparation for buying tickets a week from Sunday. And it occurs to me that there may be someone somewhere specifically interested in seeing the Writer’s Symposium panels I’m on. (In the snappish words of Judy Tenuta, “It could happen!”) So here’s my schedule:

THURSDAY

11 AM – Novel Craft: Writing a Synopsis

2 PM – Worldbuilding: Magic Systems that Won’t Break Your Story

3 PM – Story Craft: Are You Overthinking the Story?

FRIDAY

10 AM – Worldbuilding 101

11 AM – Character Craft: Writing True Leaders

1 PM – Writer’s Life: An Introvert’s Guide to Interacting with the Public

SATURDAY

10 AM – Fantasy Fiction: Dark Fantasy

1 PM – Character Craft: Good People Doing Terrible Things

4 PM – Writer’s Craft: The Art of Adding Details

My programming schedule for Oasis 29

This is my programming schedule (panels plus a couple other things) for Oasis 29 in Orlando next weekend.
SATURDAY
10 AM Atlas room – What Makes a Series (moderator)
3 PM Orion room – Charity auction (auctioneer)
5 PM Orion room – Great Horror Films You May Have Missed
7:30 PM Atlas room – Masquerade (MC)
SUNDAY
10 AM Orion room – Urban Fantasy (moderator)
1 PM Phoenix room – Ha-ha or Ah ha! (humor panel) (moderator)
For more info on Oasis 29, you can visit their site online.

I will be at Oasis 29 at the end of next week

I'll be at Oasis 29 in Orlando at the end of next week. Here's info on the con:
http://www.oasfis.org/oasis/index.php

Groping for the next idea

Spending Day Two in that annoying space where you've got the start of an idea for the next story, but it won't come clear enough for you to start writing.
It's partly my own fault. See, here's the default template for a horror short story.
1. Here's a guy.
2. A bad thing happens to him.
I've written a number of those. I imagine most horror writers have, and there are many good stories that unfold just like that.
But I sometimes have the urge to write one that doesn't follow the template. And you make life harder for yourself when you try to go off that well-beaten path.

A new eBook edition of DEAD TIME is available

There's a new eBook edition of my horror novel DEAD TIME out from the fine people at Crossroad Press. It's already available on Amazon and will be listed at Barnes & Noble, iTunes, and all the usual suspects in the very near future.
DEAD TIME combines the thrills and chills of supernatural horror with the twisty logic of classic time travel stories. The hero faces malevolent spirits and also has to worry about creating paradoxes, altering his own past, erasing himself from existence, and all that kind of thing.
Here's a link to the book on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06Y3NFZFZ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1491569400&sr=8-1&keywords=dead+time+richard+lee+byers