Seeing as I’m stuck at home this Halloween, I wanted to do my part for the spirit of the spooky holiday. The story is called “The Resurrection of Samhain,” which originally appeared in The Scribing Ibis: An Anthology of Pagan Fiction in Honor of Thoth from Bibliotheca Alexandrina in August, 2011 and again in in Out […]
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One of my publishers, namely Twisted Core Press, is particularly active on social media. They also have a growing list of writers who are, for the most part, in the early stages of their writing careers. As such, Twisted is very interested in helping their stable get better at their craft, and they understand there
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I’ve always been embarrassed by even the thought of “celebrating” my own writing. A couple of years ago I was in a writing group where a guy busted my chops because he’d found out from someone else that I’d been a finalist in the Colorado Gold contest… eight months after we’d met. I’d just never really
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June promises to be the biggest, bestest, most sparkly month of my writing career… to date, at least. I’ve posted bits and pieces for the past couple of months, but I wanted to highlight today what I have going on. June 11th marks the release of two titles I’m very proud of. The first is Out
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I’ve had some requests of late to blog on other sites, and it really has been a lot of fun. I’ve enjoyed writing essays since probably middle school, and to have peers ask me to share some of my thoughts on their websites is both an honor and a privilege. I wanted to thank the folks
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One could call it a coincidence—mere happenstance—but I prefer to consider it portent. I just got back from the 2013 Superstars writing seminar with Kevin J. Anderson, Rebecca Moesta, James A. Owen, Eric Flint and Tracy Hickman as instructors. I’ll be delving into some of what I learned there in an upcoming post, but what I want
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I got my hard-copies from WordFire Press today. Both The Pandora Sequence and Five by Five arrived today. For those of you who didn’t know, I’ve been doing some production work for WordFire, including eBook conversions and interior book design / layouts. Thus far I’ve worked on titles written or including work by Kevin Anderson, Rebecca
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So, I sat down at my day-gig and ran a quick run-through of FB headlines. You never know what you might trawl up from there, and I got lucky over the past two days. And NO, I’m not talking about some hottie from Zodicus Zu’ul… (although some of what that guy posts is positively UberHotness.)
Inspiriation: 50% Weirdness, 50% External Input, 50% Science, and 7% Cigars & Scotch Read More »
