Entering the Home Stretch

This morning I proofed the first half of Lord of the Freeborn, which is the seventh book of the series that I might have mentioned around here a time or two. Hopefully, I’ll finish that today. Then tomorrow will be spent proofing Lords of Existence, which is the eighth and final book in the series […]

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Cover Reveal #3!

You may have heard rumors that I’m in the middle of publishing a fantasy serial in eight parts. [grin] This is turning out to be quite a fun experience–and one of the most fun parts is working with Rachel Carpenter, who is doing all the covers. She’s created really fantastic work for both Glamour of […]

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Hard Work & Opportunity

As with most everything I have to say about art and writing, this is a long and meandering piece. I think it means something though. I think it gets somewhere. We shall see. I am going to use pretentious words like “art” and “artist” and other such muck-a-muck. If you are one of those TLDR […]

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Read part of Goliath vs. Robodog

Amid all the excitement around the release of Glamour of the God-Touched, I forgot to mention that The Young Explorer’s Adventure Guide has posted an excerpt of my short story “Goliath vs. Robodog” on Wattpad. Their kickstarter has funded, and the project is a full-go. Congrats to them. I’m really happy to be a part […]

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Trail of the Torean – Cover Reveal!

Meanwhile, back at the ranch … I’m happy to say that the pre-order numbers for Glamour of the God-Touched have been interesting enough to put the book on the Amazon Top 100 list for short SF & Fantasy Reads for all of yesterday (at 64 pages, it barely qualifies … but I’ll take it)! I […]

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Cultural snobbery and the genres

As synchronicity would have it, I ran into two different bits today that have to do with cultural snobbery and the genres. The first is a blog entry by Mike Dunn, who is an aspiring writer who was literally chased from his love of Analog by the culture of friends he hung around. The second […]

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The Writer as Artist

“I’ve never thought of writing as being artistic.” I’m paraphrasing a little, but that was a friend of mine said during a conversation we were having a couple weeks ago. He’s a moderately new writer, meaning he’s been working on it for a while, but still has tons o’ questions and tons o’ worries and […]

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Taylor Swift & The Culture of Free

So Taylor Swift has pulled her catalog off Spotify. She has been a proponent of artists being paid properly for their work, she’s apparently decided to make a point. It’s certainly an interesting one. Let’s face it, Swift is going to make a chunk of change, no matter how she releases her work. That’s what […]

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