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Thieves’ Quarry is now out in Paperback!!
Today is the release day for the paperback edition of Thieves’ Quarry, book II in the Thieftaker Chronicles. Paperback release days aren’t quite as exciting as hardcover release days (and I have one...
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The Summer 2014 Plunder of Souls Blog Tour Begins!
Yes, perhaps that’s a lot of fanfare for a blog tour, but I’m excited and hey, it’s my blog, right? So, yes, the Summer 2014 Plunder of Souls Blog Tour is underway, with a post today at the...
View ArticleMore Posts Up and the First Thieftaker Giveaway of the Summer!!
Two big posts up today in the continuing Summer 2014 Plunder of Souls Blog Tour. The first is at Magical Words, the site on the craft and business of writing that I co-founded and still maintain with...
View ArticleA Blog Post About Success and Failure
After a few days off, the Summer 2014 Plunder of Souls Blog Tour resumes with a post at my “home” blog, Magical Words. Today’s essay is called “The Writing Life: Living With Success and Failure,” and...
View ArticleToday on the Blog Tour: Pet Peeves
Today on the Summer 2014 Plunder of Souls Blog Tour, I conclude my month as Featured Author at Drey’s Library. My final post for Drey is a somewhat lighthearted list of my writerly pet peeves — from...
View ArticleFrom the Road . . .
I have arrived in Williamsburg, Virginia for MarsCon 25, which begins tomorrow. I was literary Guest of Honor at MarsCon back in 2013, or maybe it was 2012. Whichever it was, I had a great time here,...
View ArticleMoving on From MarsCon
I’m exhausted after a great weekend at MarsCon. Tomorrow I leave Williamsburg to do a few stock signings in North Carolina and then two bookstore events later in the week: a signing at the...
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Harry Connolly: It’s Dangerous To Go Alone
Today, I welcome author Harry Connolly to my site for a guest post about writing, publishing, and the power of perseverance. Good to see you here, Harry! ***** So, I wrote a series and it flopped...
View ArticleA New Post About Publishing With Two Houses
Today the 2015 Summer-of-Two-Releases Virtual Tour returns to Magical Words with a post about what it’s like to publish two series, under two different names, with two different publishers. We are a...
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A Plunder of Souls Paperback Release
Tomorrow will see the trade paperback release of A Plunder of Souls, the third book in my Thieftaker Chronicles. For those of you who read that and feel as though you’re caught in a time-warp, yes, I...
View ArticleIt’s Quick-Tip Tuesday: Take the Challenge!
Quite often, what separates the professionals from those who only aspire to the profession is not talent or even luck, but rather the willingness to risk rejection. If you send out a story it might be...
View ArticleThen and Now in Publishing: A New Blog Tour Post
Children of Amarid was first published in 1997, which is a really, really long time ago. The person who wrote that book must be, you know, old. Not “Rime-of-the-Ancient-Mariner” old, but at least...
View ArticleA Quick-Tip Tuesday Post About Deadlines
“But,” you say, “what if an editor asks me to make that two month deadline?” Be honest with her. Tell her that two months won’t work, but you can get it done in three, or three and a half. When it...
View ArticleProfessional Wednesday: Rethinking the Digital Revolution
I’m a dinosaur. I have been in this business for more than a quarter century. My first book was published during the Clinton Administration. I could list for you all the celebrities born since that...
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Professional Wednesday: Writing All Sorts of Stuff
As I mentioned in last week’s Professional Wednesday post, I have a teaching gig coming up. I’ll be leading a couple of critique workshops, and this Saturday, I’ll be giving a long talk on writing epic...
View ArticleCreative Wednesday: What the Beatles Documentary Teaches Us About Creativity
So it’s Creative Wednesday, and I am still thinking about the Beatles documentary. Specifically, I’m reflecting on something I mentioned in my Monday post — the creative energy that Paul McCartney...
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Professional Wednesday: A Rant About Rejections and Quitting
As many of you know, I am once again co-editing an anthology for Zombies Need Brains, Joshua Palmatier’s speculative fiction imprint. This is my fourth year as a co-editor, and each year Joshua follows...
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Professional Wednesday: Top Ten Reasons You Need INVASIVES!!
In case the daily teasers and cover art reveals and previous blog posts all failed to tip you off, this is release week for Invasives, the second Radiants novel. It comes out on Friday, February 18!...
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Monday Musings: How I Started Writing — A Case Study of Dubious Worth, Epilogue
This week I conclude my series of posts on how I came to be a professional writer. You can read the previous posts before moving on with this one. We’ll wait. [Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV]...
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Professional Wednesday: My Editing Journey
Earlier this week, in the closing entry to my “How I Started Writing” series, I had a kind of throwaway line about how I would likely spend more of 2022 editing the work of other people than writing my...
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