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A happy day today. No sooner had my fourth novel Song of the Beast been published than readers started asking me if I was ever going to write a sequel.Song. my only standalone novel, told th...

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Just back from my 11th or 12th trip to the Pikes Peak Writers Conference. As always, it was a great time, seeing old friends, making new ones, renewing professional contacts, and even sitting in ...

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I have resisted being sucked into excess social networking. I do find it an easy distraction when the writing gets tough. On the other hand, I enjoy it immensely.  My kids were on facebook, so...

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I talked last time about starting out a new project with an ensemble cast, each person with an unusual skill. I had a whisper of an idea about each of four people, their milieu, the shape of sto...

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Every one of my books/series (now up to 15/5) truly begins with a character.  In the Books of the Rai-kirah, it was the arrogant, the-world-is-mine-to-enjoy desert warrior Aleksander (not Seyonn...

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Well, everywhere, of course!  Your local chain or indie brick and mortar bookstore.  Your favorite online bookseller, be it Indiebound , Barnes and Noble , or Amazon (despite a Penguin/Amazon ...

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OK, who stole the past year? His name is Greenshank...though he knows that's not his true name.  He is a reticent man, and took something over a year and a half to tell me his story - a story...

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Out today, Dust and Light, the first novel of Sanctuary. > How much must one pay for an hour of youthful folly? The Pureblood > Registry accused Lucian de Remeni-Masson of...

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August is going to be a busy month. Any month where you give birth is busy - though I hope to get more sleep than in those human baby days! I'll be all sort of places online in August and do ...

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How easy is it to go back to a world you've created?  Lots of authors do it.  Sometimes with sequels, sometimes with prequels.  Sometimes with time jumps.  Often with wholly a wholly new ca...

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Here is a snip from this morning's news: John Barrymore - 1922 ALL IN THE FAMILY: Former President Jimmy Carter’s grandson, Jason Carter (D), is going to run for Georgia governor next year...

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You may have seen other authors posting this meme. I was tagged by my new excellent friend, the lovely Leigh Evans , and I thought it would be fun. Answer some questions; tag some of my author fr...

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Time to wake up this blog! I just sat up and realized it's Thanksgiving - well no, that's already passed. I think I'll start with a quick review of what's been happening this year. Out of order a...

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This year's World Science Fiction Convention is at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Chicago over Labor Day weekend - Thursday, August 30 through Monday September 3. It's always fun to visit this vib...

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Somewhere, someone once said, Write what you know. I hate that phrase. For many years, I took that to mean Write things that you’ve personally experienced. No one wanted to read about my life �...

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Oscar night. Not much point in watching since we hadn't seen very many of the films. And so often, it seems as if lots of nominated films are just not to our taste, no matter how well made or wel...

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I have always loved spy novels. Cold War novels by John le Carre and Len Deighton. The stories about the Enigma cipher (WWII). Ken Follett wrote some good ones before he fell into historical triu...

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There are many kinds of good news an author can receive: good reviews, positive reader comments, new contracts, new translation agreements, award news, and so forth. But on Friday, I heard two ...

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Come join me on Thursday, January 12, at noon CST for a conversation about The Daemon Prism - and any of my books - at Bitten by Books . It's part of a five-author book launch event, with many ...

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Four years after writing the first page of The Spirit Lens, the third and final novel of the Collegia Magica, The Daemon Prism, appears on bookstore shelves and online ebook lists today. What a...

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I'm giving away three copies of the new Song of the Beast and an advance reader copy (ARC) of The Daemon Prism in the next couple of months through Goodreads. Here are the links. They're free, of...

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Are you into ebooks? Always looking for new authors? TWENTY-FIVE FIRST CHAPTERS FROM TWENTY-FIVE WRITERS I'm on a number of professional fantasy/science fiction author discussion forums, but ...

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What should show up at my front door today, but this box of lovely books! Yes, these are the new trade paperback editions of Song of the Beast, winner of the 2004 Colorado Book Award. I wasn'...

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The late night and the blackout curtains in the hotel room did their work. I didn't wake up until almost 9:30 - and I had an event at 10! The hike through the sprawling hotel and the half mile of...

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Thursday was my busiest day at the con - non-stop from 9am to 2am. I was scheduled for two panels, a kaffeeklatsch, my publisher's presentation, plus I wanted to attend two of my friends' debut r...

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