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About my Absence and a Reading!

As you may know, I haven't been active online anywhere near as much as I've been known to be in the last couple of months.

There are a few projects I've been working on that are just sucking up all of my available time. As many of you know, I'm not just an author, but a filmmaker as well, and I'm in the midst of directing two documentaries. One is for the city of Salt Lake and the history of rail and public transportation here dating back to the 1870s, and the other is for PBS and explores t...

A Children's Illustrated History of Presidential Assassination: Part 2

As I write this, there are about 30 hours left on the Kickstarter campaign for my next book, A Children's Illustrated History of Presidential Assassination.




We're currently 215% funded and climbing.




We've been in the news in a number of places:





First, we have The National Journal. Writer Marina Koren interviewed me for her piece in their White House section today. How to Explain Presidential Assassinations to Your Kids is a great, positive piece. They read the book, loved i...

Walt Simonson on Misleading Readers

Walt Simonson is a brilliant comics writer, and easily one of my favorites.

I've spoken to him before about writing (you can read that here). And I saw this clip pop up on Bleeding Cool with Walt Simonson discussing the origin of Beta Rey Bill, one of my favorite characters in the Marvel Universe.

During the video, he drops this nugget of wisdom:

"You want to play fair with the reader but you want to mislead them in stories. You'd like them not to get the end and go, 'Oh yeah, this is goin...

A Children's Illustrated History of Presidential Assassination

 So, my publisher for this book, Silence in the Library, launched a Kickstarter campaign for a book.



I've written it and Erin Kubinek drew it.



 I'd appreciate deeply your support for this project.



The manuscript is done and most of the illustrations are as well. This is really just a preorder campaign.

The book documents the attempted assassinations of Presidents as well as those who were actually killed in a way that's interesting and engaging to kids and adults.



And the illu...

Salt Lake Comic-Con: Tentative Schedule

I am happy to say that I'll be a guest at my first hometown Comic-Con, right here in Salt Lake City.



I'll be selling and signing books from a table, and Big Shiny Robot! will have a presence there as well.



I've got a pretty busy schedule and am in negotiations to make it even busier, but right now, this is what's going on so far.



For tickets, visit the Salt Lake Comic-Con website.



Thursday: September 5



6:00 pm:

Making a Film on a Shoestring Budget 

(Aaron Hultgren, Bryan Young, Scot...

Dragon Con: Tentative Schedule

Dragon Con is coming up quick and my tentative schedule is nothing short of exciting. I'll be all over the place and if you don't get to see me, it can't possibly be my fault because I'm doing all of the coolest stuff.



I will stress that this schedule is tentative and subject to change, but there is a lot of VERY cool stuff on here.



Friday 

What We Know About Episode VII Thus Far

2:30 pm - A706 Marriott

Rumors, theories, confirmed details, wishes, hopes, and fears. WE ARE GETTING A...

An Update and Announcements

July 2013 might have been one of my busiest months ever, so I apologize for the lapse in posting. San Diego Comic-Con was wedged in the middle of all of that, as well as some other things. I had two readings, one at a library in Logan, Utah, and another at The King's English Bookstore in Salt Lake City.



And on top of everything, I'm still working on a rewrite of The Serpent's Head.



But let's take San Diego Comic-Con first.









I was on a couple of panels and met a lot of very cool people....

That Award and Two Readings in Utah

Over the weekend I was honored by the Utah Arts Festival and the Salt Lake City Mayor's office with the award for Literary Arts, given out generally every year, but not always. I'm pictured there, second from the left with the other winners.



It was a great experience and truly an honor.



Coming off the heels of that award, I'll be doing two different readings in the area. The first will be this Thursday at the regular Helicon West reading at the Logan Library, 255 North Main, Logan, Utah....

A Hero By Any Other Name

Silence in the Library Publishing has put out a brand new anthology and is a collection of superhero stories. It's a fantastic collection and I'm very proud of it.

First off, it has stories from Michael Stackpole and Aaron Allston in it. And a story by me.



My story, called "Changing The Game," is about the sidekick half of the Kid Sleuth and the Inspector team.



Each of the stories is illustrated by Mark Dos Santos, and has a cover by Dennis Loubet.

Here's a full breakdown of authors and st...

Time Traveled Tales

 Time Traveled Tales is a new collection of short stories from guys like Timothy Zahn, Aaron Allston, Mike Stackpole and plenty of other authors you've heard of (me included) and some authors that you're going to be hearing a lot about in the future.



 They're kickstarting the book as a collection to subvert big publishing and cut out the middle-men, something I was talking about recently in my latest column for City Weekly.



This is a perfect way to get great fiction and directl...