Here you go, my darlings!  All the links to author interviews and cool musings.  This post will be updated as new pieces come on line.

Here’s your direct link to the Weird Western Bundle, where you can choose to purchase four novels or all ten novels.  You’ll also have the opportunity to donate a portion of your purchase to Girls Write Now, a ( Read more... )

Personal Note:

OH MY DARLINGS I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS!

Ahem.

Welcome to our Weird Western Bundle, where wide frontiers, flintlocks, whiskey and revenge meet swords, airships, terraforming, magic, myths, and dragons!  You’ll find stories here set in the snows of old Alaska and the heat of contemporary Arizona, post-Civil War San Francisco and post- ( Read more... )

So the appropriately named Rock-pocalypse (thank you,  gnibbles!) that devoured my sister's new-home experience also ate nearly two weeks of my life because... well, because someone tried to screw over my family member and that Will Not Stand. Everything in me that is Scots-Irish Sicilian came out in force, and there wasn't room for elsemuch ( Read more... )

Darlings, I am so excited about this one, and would love to have your support in seeing these great writers connect with a wider audience!


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Item the First: The membership of SFWA has spoken and, by a vote of 6-to-1 in favor, has changed their governing by-laws to allow writers whose success comes from independent publishing to qualify for membership.  Detailed procedural guidelines are being hammered out, and it looks like authors will be able to begin applying by March of this year.

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My internet access last night was as slow as an exhausted sloth slogging through mud with kettleballs chained to its ankles, and writing on the computer in any position -- sitting, standing, reclining, whatever -- was distractingly uncomfortable. Thus I spent some hours stretched out across the bed to write by hand while the hip discomfort receded ( Read more... )

Brad Beaulieu and I met about ten years ago at the twentieth anniversary Writers of the Future workshop, where we spent a week learning the craft from Tim Powers and K.D. Wentworth.  (I still have the notes Brad made on a story of mine from that week.)  From the beginning, he struck me as a person who had an inquisitive and analytical mind that ( Read more... )

Eight novels!  One bundle!


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Since StoryBundle launches tomorrow, my computer crashed this evening.  Of course ( Read more... )

So I’m curating a fantasy bundle for StoryBundle. I’ve begun reviewing submissions and would love to see more.

What I’m looking for: Epic, sword & sorcery, traditional, diverse, and/or dark fantasy. Clean writing and sharp pacing. Well-developed characters, comprehensive worldbuilding, and coherent magical/supernatural elements. Fully edited and ( Read more... )