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Working Through the End of the World (as we knew it)

Singing along to “Toss a Coin to Your Witcher” while thinking about next Nyx story and patching up a pair of gardening shorts. Thinking about how the way back to mental health after this last year in particular and four years generally is a slow one but progressing.

I have a lot of respect for folks who were able to continue producing regular work the last 18 months. You are heroes. While I kept up with my monthly stories for Patreon, I struggled with them. Rewards ran late. Stories got short...

We Live! We Ride!

What a year, huh?

But I scraped my way through, and so did you. After a long period of churn in which I wrote 60,000+ words of various openings for my next novel, LOSING GRAVITY, I’ve finally slid it into gear and have about 30k of what will be a 90-100k draft that’s due in December for a 2022 release.

I like where it’s going now. It’s set in the same universe as THE STARS ARE LEGION, only deals with another ship with another fate. I think ya’ll will dig it.

This makes TWO books I’...

Latest News from The Hurleyverse

Here’s a roundup of what’s been going on in The Hurleyverse the last few months:

The Worldbreaker Saga: New Omnibus Edition!

The Worlbreaker Saga is now out in a single convenient ebook format! It includes a never-before-seen epilogue as well as a new introduction by yours truly.

Future Artifacts: Stories

We’ve sold another short story collection! This one will be with Apex Publications for print and digital. The audio version will come out from Recorded Books concurrently. The...

Survival Is An Achievement. But What Comes Next?

I’ve been publishing novels for ten years, this month, and my first series is still, miraculously, in print. That’s a pretty cool achievement. Both being in print and still being here, still under contract, still writing (albeit slowly, these days).

Enduring the highs and lows of publishing and coming out the other side isn’t for the faint of heart. Some days survival and endurance are enough. I find myself at an odd place in which I’m looking back at 10 years of publishing at the same time ...

A Plague is Plague. A Coup is a Coup. And Other Topics Not Up for Debate

My academic training is in the history of war and resistance movements, which has given me a lot of context with which to untangle this particular period of political, economic, technological and climate change.

Perhaps this understanding of what’s come before is why I’m so frustrated when folks can’t see the same things I do, the patterns that repeat. We keep thinking history happened to someone else, but history is where we came from; what happened before us is how we got to where we are. ...

GET TO WORK HURLEY: Episode 15. #F*CK2020! Let’s Get to Work

The GET TO WORK HURLEY podcast is a monthly rant about the hustle of making a living as a writer of All of the Things. You can support this podcast each month as a Patron or make a one-time donation.

E PISODE FIFTEEN : #2020isOver! Let’s talk about how to write through and about trauma and bad shit, answer some listener questions, and give some great book recs on the way to throwing 2020 out on its ass. Listen below or on iTunes (NOTE: itunes takes awhile to show new eps)

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2020: The Lost Year

It’s easy to be hard on myself here at the end of 2020. I confidently predicted I’d have another book finished well ahead of my deadline in September. I resolved to spend more time building up the Patreon so I could begin to plan for another attempt at full time writing in the next couple years. I conspired to sell several novellas, maybe even have a proposal all ready for a shiny new series! I expected to travel during the summer, for cons, and visit family in Albuquerque for Thanksgiving. My w...

The Light Brigade is a Hugo Finalist! Thank You!

I am exceptionally proud and humbled that The Light Brigade made the Hugo shortlist! 2019 was an amazing year for books. I know it must have been difficult for voters to narrow down their list of favorites. I couldnt keep up with everything I wanted to read (its been a rough timeline!).

I do want to take a moment to thank everyone who voted for this book. I put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into it (as did my agent, Hannah Bowman!). I thought wed missed the short list, frankly, as I didnt...

Adulting My 2020 Budget

I was laid off with no notice, no severance, and no health insurance at the end of January last year, and it’s been a battle to keep our heads above water since then. We had just depleted our savings moving my spouse’s grandmother up here (he’s now her guardian) and paying for a bunch of related ongoing costs. Thanks to a lot of Paypal donations and an active surge in patreon subscribers to make up the loss of income, as well as cashing out some 401(k) accounts (I know, I know. Millenial...

Heading Into the New Twenties Like…

My writing career began, properly, in early 2011 with the publication of God’s War, a book that I’d finished writing back in 2007 and sold both in 2008 and again in 2009. And while I’d had a few short stories published prior, God’s War was the bloody, exciting, bug-filled debut that introduced most folks in the genre to me and my work. It earned a Nebula Award nom and Clarke Award nom, and won me a Sidney J. Bounds Award for Best New Writer and a Kitschy Award for Best Debut. Lots of folks...