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Self Promotion, The Eternal Argument

Back when WebMage came out, I wrote a post on how I felt about self promotion. It generated exactly one response: Lyda saying she'd like to hear my take on it three years forward. It's not quite three years on yet, but it's getting close and I'm still pretty much where I was then. I blogged about it today at SFNovelists.[image error]

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Friday Cat Blogging

The author attempting to work



Has you seen my legs?



Kitty sandwich



Up periscope...dive! Dive!

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Author Websites

So, I've got a book out at the end of the month and I'm realizing I really need to update my webpage. Things I need to do include putting up sample chapters and previously published stories linked a separate page for fiction samples, linking the recommended reading list to buy pages, a bibliography update, and an aknowledements page that thanks all the folks who need thankage. I've already got bio, book links, contact form, and a (seriously incomplete) set of research links. I'm considering putt

An "All About Me" Moment

Tate asked me to remind you all that her newest release "DEAD IF I DO" is offically available in stores as of yesterday, May 5, 2009. If you'd like to hear Tate chat about writing, vampires and the newest book, check out a podcast she did at "Vampires, Witches and Geeks," Interview with author Tate Hallaway. Or read the Monsters & Critic's review.[image error]

Book Proposals...I'm getting to kind of like them

So, I've been working on the proposal for a successor series to the WebMage books. The funny thing is that somewhere along the line, writing book proposals went from being an awful task to kind of fun.

Because of where I am in my career, I no longer have to have a completed book to synopsize, and it's much easier to plump a cool idea out into a book outline then it is to condense a novel done into one. That helps...a lot. It also doesn't hurt that I've been working on the screen porch on a loung

Monday WIP

Me, I'm in Valparasio, Indiana at the "Blackbird Cafe" (free wifi!) and trying to complete the proposals for Tate's next Garnet Lacey novels and starting to get excited for tomorrow's release of her book DEAD IF I DO.

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Friday Cat Blogging

Flat-cat medley










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Series Closed

The final WebMage book is officially delivered one month ahead of schedule. It's a weird old feeling.[image error]

Smart Things

David Levine on the time investment in a novel.

Via Justine Larbalestier: Jenny Bent on the differences between being a fresh new agent and being an experienced one.

Via Jay Lake: Jeremiah Tolbert on getting started in SF.[image error]