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Wow, I’m a bad blogger. I blame a lot of things-twitter, a giant kitchen renovation that’s eaten my entire house and therefore life, some stuff I might talk about here later but maybe not, since it’s personal, but looking at my poor half-done neglected web site makes me feel all guilty, so my goal for June is to at least whip all the basic stuff ( Read more... )

Hi everyone! Sporadic blogging continues, but for good reasons: 1) I’m finishing up line edits to the third and final Iron Codex novel and 2) I’m working on two brand new Book 1′s of both an adult and YA series. No sales yet, but I hope that’ll change very soon, and I can share some details with all of you lovely people.

In lieu of any news ( ( Read more... )

I always disliked the phrase “a vacation from my vacation” (a phrase almost as saccharine and idiotic as “a case of the Mondays”.)

But after spending a week and a half on the JCCC2 boat, which Wil Wheaton’s lovely wife Anne described as “Nerd camp for adults, on a boat” (More info on the JoCo Cruise here-it really was spectacular in a strange and ( Read more... )

Today’s the day! The Nightmare Garden is officially on shelves, along with the paperback of The Iron Thorn, for double the steampunk fun, Lovecraftian monsters, and sexy Dean Harrison goodness!

I can’t tell you what a huge deal it is to have this book out in the world. This was the hardest book I ever wrote-there were times when I was sure I’d ( Read more... )

So yes, this has pretty much become the Nightmare Garden/Iron Codex 24-Hour Fun Channel, and for those of you who don’t come here for the book stuff, I apologize. But my release date is only four short days away, and it’s pretty crazy up in here, so I’m going to post a whole slew of Nightmare Garden stuff and hopefully there will be something for ( Read more... )

Have been doing a lot of spring cleaning at Stately Wayne Manor, and it’s put me in the mood to clear out headspace as well.

I’m still orbiting the dwarf star of not talking about anything because nothing is finalized. Publishing is slow, y’all. Slow like a turtle that’s choked down a handful of mommy’s little helper and decided to listen to the ( Read more... )

I just want to break out into karaoke here, that Tom Petty number where he says wayyy yayyy tiiiing is the hardest part.

There’s still no news on the publishing front, so I’m not blogging much.  I’m also getting pretty busy-May is the month for tying up many loose ends before I dive into June and July, when I’m drafting the third Iron Codex book as ( Read more... )

I don’t want to be mysterious, but there’s so much going on right now book-wise-at least three possible major developments on three different fronts-that I can’t talk about, that I’m just going to forgo the usual update.

I’m still working on Proposal No. 2, which I still like a great deal.

I need to turn out a short story this week, but I have an ( Read more... )

The blog, that is.  Me, I’m not so sure about.

I finished the edits to Iron Codex II yesterday, as well as typing up a hugely expanded outline for Book 3, and sent them to my editor.  I calculated I added something like 35,000 words to this draft of the novel.  I don’t even know. My brain is leaking out my ears and I’m in that dazed stage where I ( Read more... )