Situation: A friend's wife's car is divebombed by a deer. She didn't hit the deer, the deer literally jumped off an embankment and landed on the car while she was driving down the road. She's fine. The car is not. Nor is the deer. Your friend posts a picture of the car, with a smashed windshield with a hole in it right over the steering wheelDo you ( Read more... )

"Huffman Strikes Back," co-written with the handsome and hard-working Bryan Thomas Schmidt, will be appearing in The Monster Hunter Files, from Baen Books, available for pre-order right now ( Read more... )

About 6am this morning, my ranking looked like this ( Read more... )

The handsome and hard-working Larry Correia is book bombing my novel today. In case you don't know what this means, it's that we all buy a book on the same day, send it flying up the Amazon charts, and do fun things with their algorithms. If you buy other urban fantasy with it, that gets it on genre-appropriate rec lists. If you buy weird things ( Read more... )

But before I get to that, I have a funny story. If you don't care about the funny story, just skip down to the bold part.

Remember this from ComicCon? Basically, Larry Correia being awesome and introducing me to Kevin J. Anderson and saying that not only would he blurb my book if they published it, but would also book bomb it ( Read more... )

Got back from the Easter Jeep Safari in Moab to find that the internet blew up in my absence. Since I knew the Hugo nominations would be announced on Easter Saturday, this was inevitable. And I thought long and hard about whether I was going to make a public post or just lock it to the folks I trust, but I've decided I'm not going to let fear rule ( Read more... )

I'ma just leave this here: The Legalities of Shooting People.

ETA: Okay, I realize that everyone is having a blast smacking Clamps around like a cheap pinata, but I'm going to bow out at this point in time. I have a Sunday deadline I'm desperately trying to hit on a story that's making me crazy ( Read more... )

So, I'm at SLComicCon this weekend (as one is if one has a modicum of sense, lives here, and is in The Business), and talking to Larry Correia at the WordFire Press booth. The Man Himself, Kevin J. Anderson, wanders by, and Larry hollers at him, introduces me, and tells him that I need to bypass the slush pile when I submit my novel ( Read more... )

Camping with a bunch of people from church. It was lovely ( Read more... )

Hey, everyone? Just because a character's death causes another character pain does not make that a "fridging." [Warning: link goes to TVTropes.] And I say this as someone who has shamelessly fridged more than one character in RP. Trust me when I say I know what it is, and I know what it isn't.

A character death should cause other characters pain ( Read more... )