I have a lot of news, and some of it is buried inside this Kickstarter that just went live. You see…due to the intransigence of the new owners at the sf digest magazines (as well as the mystery magazines), I can no longer send them my short fiction. I actually had to pull some stories […]
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I read a lot in January and liked a lot of it as well. Some truly marvelous books (which is not what I could say for February & March. More on that in those lists). I also finished my reading for the in-person space opera workshop I was conducting in the middle of the month. […]
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As we do every January, Dean and I are participating in Kickstarter’s Make 100 Project. This year, we put together five big thick books with stories from our various series. Each of us has 10 stories in each book, and all of the stories are great introductions to the series that we write. I have […]
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I don’t often talk about the awards I’ve won or the successes I’ve had. Often, that’s because I’m deep in my own head, writing the next story. But I usually do take the time to say thank you. This past year has been so crazy that it took Dean to remind me that I hadn’t […]
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Here’s something fun. My award-nominated novella, “Maelstrom,” is in a Storybundle with eight other space opera ebooks. It may look like there’s only eight books here, but really, there are entire series bundled into some of these ebooks. You can get them all with a simple click. But they go away in about 48 hours. […]
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I learned something a bit startling late last year. I was putting together the reading list for my in-person science fiction mystery class, and I realized that most of the books I wanted my students to read were out of print—and there was no electronic edition. Most of them were anthologies that came out in […]
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Last year, I published three pieces of short fiction in Asimov’s SF Magazine. I’m both stunned and happy to report that all three have made the Readers’ Award Final Ballot. Thank you so much, Asimov readers! The two novellas, “The Break-In” and “The Death Hole Bunker,” are part, in very different form, of my novel […]
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I had a spectacular week. I spent it in the company of fourteen very fine writers. They are all in the photo that accompanies this post, which was taken at the very end of the workshop. It was fun. I teach advanced level craft workshops in person about three times per year. The writers who […]
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I’m making some changes for 2024. As many of you know, I discontinued the weekly publishing blog about a month ago. I will continue to talk about publishing on my Patreon page, but probably in a more personal way. Then, because I felt the need to ramp up my fiction production after a really awful […]
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First! Thank you, thank you, thank you to all of the backers for the Diving Kickstarter! We hit our goal and stretch goals, and now readers will get to see Ivory Trees well before the official publication date. I’m so grateful to everyone who backed us. Thank you! And now, we’ve debuted a Diving store. […]
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