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Now Write!

I tore a hole in my finger last night and it sucks. However, I am not letting that deter me from writing today. I’m pulling one of my rare “Sleep is for the dead” days and trying to achieve a goal of 3,000 newly written words (no, blogging doesn’t count). So far I’m at… uh… 250.

Well, f***.

However,Nightwalkeronly needs about 1500 words more or so before it goes to the editor, so I’ll have to find something else to work on. Yes, I should have made completingNightwalkermy primary goal, with the...

Interviewed

Just wrapped up an interview for Book in the Bag, a review site that is going live soon-ish. The interview is scheduled for October 1st and I had a lot of fun with the questions they asked. Okay, perhaps too much fun. Love it or hate it, it’s done.

Wrote a book review last night as well. Instead of the promised review, however, the Book Gods demanded I burn an effigy of Harry Turtledove after his horribleSupervolcano: Eruption novel. I’ve never read a Turtledove novel I thought sucked until th...

Wrath of the Book Gods

At the risk of incurring the wrath of the book review gods (because my reviewing schedule is as steady as the men in Kim Kardashian’s life), I plan on reviewing Sygillis of Metatron(The League of Elders, Book 1) by Ben Garcia tomorrow over at Shiny Book Review. It’s a strange name, yeah, but it’s a pretty good book. It had some WTF? moments but overall was fun. I just started the sequel yesterday (sorry Ben, I’m a procrastinator) and the prologue had me giggling a bit. Only a bit. More than a...

That Blurry Line Between Fact and WTF?

Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction.

If I submitted a novel to a publisher with some of the stuff that has happened this week in the world (embassy killings, countries apologizing for makingprotestersangry enough to kill ambassadors, the riots catching people by surprise, political leaders who seem to be clueless) I’d be shot done for not being real enough and it being too surreal. I know because in the initial draft ofCorruptor, when the media is questioning Rodney about the terroris...

…aaaaaaaand back

Well, it took a week longer than expected but I finally have the internet up and going at my new place.

Apparently, nothing has gone on in my absence. Nice to know that the world stops for me.

Just kidding.

Have a lot of emails to catch up on (over 200… wow) though most of those are probably the click-delete kind. If you’ve emailed me recently and wondered why I hadn’t responded, now you know.

Good News For A Friend

Yay! My good friend Barb Caffrey has recently inked a deal with one of my publishers. Barb, as some of you know, is one of my reviewers over at Shiny Book Review.This is exciting news because she was almost convinced that she would never find a home for the novel. Now it’s residing at Twilight Times Books, andElfy should be out sometime in 2014-ish. That’s my best guesstimate.

Congrats Barb.

Elitism

Let me tell you a story of a group of friends who went to a pretty good high school in Southern California back in the early-mid 90′s.

These kids (let’s call them “Those Guys”) were a strange bunch. Band geeks, D&D nerds, one jock (not sure how he slipped into the group), and all future Eagle Scouts (though they did not know this at the time). They were ostracized by their peers, mocked by everyone at the school (including the jock, which surprised him to no end). They were, in no uncertain te...

Whooshing

Finally got around to reviewingThe Kingmakers. Too bad for you that it’s not being posted for another two weeks. Why? Well, because the book doesn’t come out until Sept 4.

The first Failsafenovel (right now, tentatively titledBeneath A Banner Burned) is moving very, very nicely along. I don’t know what it is about brunette air pirate captains with red corsets and an eye patch, but Captain Annie has really grabbed my imagination. The last character to do that so convincingly was Christian Cole....

Craptacular

I’m under the weather (seriously, I’m sick and a storm front is moving in) so this’ll be short.

I’m alive, am reasonably well and things are a-movin’ in the fiction-verse. I’ll be published in 3 books this fall, which is up from the two I originally thought I was going to be limited to. More info to follow when, you know, I have it.

Back to the soup.

Saving Yourself From Yourself

I have to admit, I’m not a fan of Apple.

Oh, I have an iPhone, don’t get me wrong. I like it. It works for me and it does what I want it to do.

That being said, I don’t worship at the altar of Jobs. I don’t drink the Kool-Aid. I don’t hand Apple my credit card and scream “Take my money!” like some people I know. I mean, if I bought a MacBook or something, I’d spend another hundred dollars getting MS Office. And with what I’d be dropping on an MacBook, I could buy a tricked out gaming computer w...