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May 13, 2014
Release today: CON JOB
Yep, today Con Job officially hits the market! Whee! (Okay, okay, you newsletter subscribers who got it early and at a discount, quit waving copies and looking smug. You’ll make everyone else feel bad.) But here’s a bonus: all on their own, Amazon decided to put the paperback on sale … Continue reading
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May 12, 2014
New Interview at Examiner, on CON JOB
Rachel Desilets was kind enough to interview me for theExaminer.com book section, and you can read it today! She asks some fun questions about Con Job.You can find it over here!
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May 8, 2014
CLAMP and CLUTCH: the art
In Con Job, Jacob and Samantha discover a gorgeous costume, based on a design by the famous artists CLUTCH. This is a blatant reference to the famous creators CLAMP. CLAMP is a Japanese art group knows for their characters’ distinctive elongated style and ridiculously detailed, impractical-but-drool-worthy fashions. It’s a sure … Continue reading
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May 7, 2014
The Greatest Show You’ve Never Seen: Remember WENN
The best television series you’ve never heard of is Remember WENN. Remember WENN holds an odd place in television history.It was written, both scripts and music, by Rupert Holmes, an accomplished playwright/author/composerunfortunately somehow known best for the song “Escape,”itself better known as “The Piña Colada Song.” But you might have … Continue reading
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May 5, 2014
In the Works: a new serial
My friend Stephanie Cain (who has a shiny brand new author page on Facebook to like) invited me to participate in Camp NaNoWriMo with her this year. I’d never done Camp NaNo, which is a somewhat less-intense April version of the November 50,000-word spew, so I signed up. I chose … Continue reading
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May 2, 2014
CON JOB is coming!
Long promised, eagerly anticipated, now expected! Con Job will release on May 13. In other news, I’m sorry for the lack of news. I’ve been traveling with very limited internet access (where I am right now, I can get online for a few minutes a day at speeds well under … Continue reading
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April 17, 2014
Oops! No Requirement To Share
Hi, all! It was brought to my attention thatthe blog was “locked” to reading unless you the reader agreed to “like” or share the post. Nope! This was never supposed to happen! I found a plugin with a pay-with-a-like “feature” activated. I suspect it got turned on during a recent … Continue reading
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April 15, 2014
Of Music and Scrooge McDuck
I’m listening to a comic book soundtrack, and I’m nowhere close to ashamed. Tuomas Holopainen — you might know him, if you have exquisite taste, as the founder of symphonic metal wizards Nightwish — has released an album “inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.” And it’s pretty … Continue reading
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April 9, 2014
CON JOB — Cover Reveal!
I am ridiculously excited to get to share this with you. I asked Kristie Good of Crash Bang Labs to do the Con Job cover art, in great part because she is also a longtime geek and would understand the flavor such a cover needed. Kristie does comics as well … Continue reading
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April 8, 2014
A Serial Experiment
I’m trying something new! You can see a work in progress serialized at Wattpad. I’m working on Smoke and Peers, which follows Smoke and Fears. It’s started, but not finished, so you’re getting the real serial experience! Eventually it will be revised and collected for standard publication. Interested? You can … Continue reading
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