Prince Tadeo has his heart set on a Songbird for the coronation. He sends Reynaldo, the best magic hunter in the business, after it. Once upon a time, Songbirds served the king. Now Reynaldo must convince one Songbird to return. Just one. Or he will use devastating magic to make sure she never sings from […]
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I started the Holiday Recommended Reading List when I realized that I point out all the great holiday stories in January, after the season has passed. I am always a month behind in reporting what I read, and that will continue as I catch up on the Recommended Reading List. I got behind this year, […]
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I’m so pleased to announce that the second collection featuring my popular characters Spade and Paladin has just hit print! The collection features a brand-new, never-before-seen novella about Spade and Paladin, called “The Case of the Purloined Pages.” If you’ve never read a Spade story before, you have a chance by reading this week’s Free […]
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…to this day. I was, in the parlance of children, eight-and-a-half. Apollo 8 had left Earth’s orbit and was the first crewed spaceflight to fly to the Moon. They orbited 10 times. What I remember the most, though, was their travel to “the backside” of the Moon. Their signal would cut out. The first time […]
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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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My husband, Dean Wesley Smith is a master at that same kind of eerie and just off-kilter story that appears on the Twilight Zone. He wrote for several Twilight Zone properties back in the day, so he’s good at a TZ story. But TZ inspired him from a young age. When he started writing, he […]
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Lots of weird little things to share and announce. First, we’re making a number of changes at WMG and on the websites and such. One of the most visible is the Publishers Blog, which will become something a lot more…shall we say, interesting? Instead of a list of what we’re publishing each week, there will […]
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I started the Holiday Recommended Reading List when I realized that I point out all the great holiday stories in January, after the season has passed. I am always a month behind in reporting what I read, and that will continue as I catch up on the Recommended Reading List. I got behind this year, […]
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It doesn’t seem like I’ve been all that silent here, but I have been. We experienced one of those life events that knocked us out of our routine and put us into a whole new world. A week ago Sunday, Dean tripped during a 5K run. He was going very fast, passing people and enjoying […]
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The next Diving novel takes us back a little bit in time, because I needed to learn a bit about the various cultures I was writing about. So Ivory Trees looks at some shenanigans in the Empire as well as explains some things that were deliberately left blank in the regular Diving novels. Before you […]
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