“Their bedrolls untouched, they sat by the fire and listened to the horses grumble and snore, the mule’s occasional flatulence loud in the too-quiet night air, as the moon rose overhead and passed through the sky, the stars faded, and the first hint of pale red appeared in the east, heralding the return of day.” […]
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2015 has been both one of the most… amazingly satisfying years of my life, and also one of the roughest. I suspect the blend is impossible to avoid, especially when you’re not treading the same, familiar ground. Â It was a year, and it will not come again. Â But a new one always does. And so,
2015 rolling out, 2016 rolling in… Read More »
Borderlands (SF) Bookstore’s October Bestseller List. Â Considering the top five names, I am not at all depressed to be #6. Â :-D (thanks to everyone who bought copies – there or elsewhere!)
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The Vampire Book Club reviews SILVER ON THE ROAD, and invokes both Faith Hunter’s Jane Yellowrock and Diana Gabaldon’s Claire in OUTLANDER in their discussion of why they gave it 4.5 stars…. “I’m happy to think they can keep traveling the Road indefinitely”
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If anyone here a) likes ebooks, b) likes half-price ebooks – and c) likes half-price ebooks where the authors still get full royalties on the sale….  Kobo’s having a sale. Half-price ebooks if you use the region-appropriate code:  Canada October 28th – October 31st Promo Code: CA50SALE  United States/Australia/New Zealand October 27th
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For those coming in late, or who want a refresher on how the hell we got here… I Am Terrified, But Not Afraid. The Announcement of Books! Some of the Backstory (and short stories) Research Road Trip! (part 1) Research Road Trip! (part 2) On Writing As Me and Not Someone Else I’m on
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I did warn y’all, right? So here’s a new early rave to continue whetting your appetite…. Â “[SILVER ON THE ROAD is] captivating, vivid, and impossible to stop reading… I could taste the dust, hear the rattle of the snakes, feel the wind, and sense the road. Filled with wonderful mythology and strong, compelling characters,
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Today – and the next few days – will be given over to the page proofs for SILVER ON THE ROAD. As seen via a series of tweets: I can’t be the only writer who, when faced w/ page proofs, finds it uncomfortable/difficult to read even a beloved book One More Time? Y/N? 2nd-guessing foreign
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After much hair-pulling and coffee-drinking, Book 2 of The Devil’s West and I seem to be writing the same story again, just in time to bring things to a close…. Seriously, this would be SO much easier if the lizard brain would talk to the mammal brain during the FIRST pass of the draft, not
The light at the end of the tunnel is a chain-smoking dragon. Read More »
While I was offline, Publishers Weekly singled out SILVER ON THE ROAD (as well as many other fine books, including Aliette de Bodard’s THE HOUSE OF SHATTERED WINGS, which if you haven’t pre-ordered you really should) as one of “this fall’s most exciting books.” Needless to say (but I’m gonna anyway): I’m chuffed.  :-)
And I came home to this…. Read More »