His novel "The Worker Prince" debuted recently, and it's not getting nearly as much love as it should be. It received an Honorable Mention on Barnes & Noble Book Club's Year's Best Science Fiction Releases, and this edition (published by WordFire Press) is the Definitive Author's Edition. If you'd rather have the Kindle than the dead-tree version, ( Read more... )

Well. I'm looking at these novel projects and realizing that, while the seven-point outline works really well for my shorts, I think I need something a little more extensive than that for a pair of novels. I pantsed the last novel, and that went all right (because I've apparently been doing the seven-point structure purely by instinct for years ( Read more... )

What with all the taxes I did. But it's done. Go, me. I hope I didn't screw it up too badly, like I did last year ( Read more... )

So, a friend of mine, the handsome and hard-working Dan Wells, has a new book coming out on Tuesday called "The Hollow City," about a man with schizophrenia who finds out that some of the monsters in his head are real. Now, Dan is a brilliant writer, and I was going to go to the book launch on Tuesday, because I like Dan and want to support him, ( Read more... )

"Chimera" by robgoodfella (Rob Thurman).

And, yo, y'all, this is a seriously good book. For those of us who've read her Cal books, we can almost see Cal and Niko and Robin in there...almost. The characters are actually very different and I love the SF plot. Also, Russian Mafia. Dude ( Read more... )

Is an Evil Genius and I want to have his Writer Babies.

Yeah, I just finished "Mr. Monster," which is the sequel to "I Am Not a Serial Killer," which just came out in the US not too long ago, and which you need to buy and read yesterday. "Mr. Monster" is out in the UK but not the US, but I live in the same state as Dan and he was at CONduit, so I ( Read more... )

Okay, I'm reading a book ( Read more... )

Jim Butcher has the ability to rip my heart out, stick it in a blender, hit "shred," dump it on the ground, and stomp on the bitty shards. And he doesn't even have to kill a character to do it ( Read more... )

Er. That is, I can haz robgoodfella's new book, released today, titled "Roadkill."

Seriously, you guys. Ben's sarcasm has nothing on Cal's. He could take lessons. In fact, I'm taking lessons, because this woman has things to teach me about writing ( Read more... )

So. The lovely and effulgent robgoodfella (Rob Thurman) has a new book coming out. And if you're not reading her, and you like urban fantasy, you need to be. Because her books are amazing and brilliant and she's teaching me things about characters and writing just by me reading both her Cal Leandros and her Trickster books.

Roadkill, the new book in the ( Read more... )