Today on the Summer 2014 Plunder of Souls Blog Tour, I conclude my month as Featured Author at Drey's Library.  My final post for Drey is a somewhat lighthearted list of my writerly pet peeves -- from mall signings to "reserves against returns," and a few things in between.  While you're at the site, be sure to sign up for a chance to win a free ( Read more... )

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“Sometimes an idea really is greater than the sum of its parts.  Each idea on its own might show little potential; but combine them and BOOM!” The Summer-(Now-Fall) 2012 THIEFTAKER Blog Tour continues today with a new post at my “home blog” -- Magical Words. It is another in my series of essays dealing with creative ideas and how to handle them. ( Read more... )

I’m heading to Atlanta the day after tomorrow for Dragon*Con, and frankly I am totally psyched.  Can’t wait.  I’ll be catching up with tons of old friends, and hopefully making some new connections.  I will also be appearing (as D.B. Jackson) on several panels and doing a reading of something from the THIEFTAKER universe - don’t know what yet.  My ( Read more... )

Hope all of you had a great Fourth of July; I know I did.  A parade, grilled dinner with good friends, fireworks.  And a very successful book signing in my home town.  Today, I am back to the Blog Tour with new posts at sites hosted by two of my very favorite people in the world.  One is at the blog of my friend Kate Elliott.  The post is about ( Read more... )

Exciting day in our household.  Our older daughter took her SATs this morning, and actually came out of the exam feeling pretty good about it. And our younger daughter is up in Nashville swimming in the regional Middle School Swim Championships.  Her finals are tonight, but she has already qualified in both her events (with personal-best times, I ( Read more... )

Today’s post can be found at http://magicalwords.net, the group blog on the business and craft of writing fantasy that I maintain with fellow authors Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, A.J. Hartley, Kalayna Price, and Edmund Schubert, among others. The post is called “Free Fiction: A Halloween Tale,” and it’s a short story I wrote to mark the day. I hope ( Read more... )

Today’s post can be found at http://magicalwords.net, the group blog on the business and craft of writing fantasy that I maintain with fellow authors Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, A.J. Hartley, Stuart Jaffe, and Edmund Schubert, among others. The post is called “A Very Personal Post About Word Processing” and it’s . . . well, I was having some fun ( Read more... )

Today’s post can be found at http://magicalwords.net, the group blog on the business and craft of writing fantasy that I maintain with fellow authors Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, A.J. Hartley, and Stuart Jaffe, among others. The post is called “Favorites: Some Labor Day Dun” and it’s about some of my favorite books, titles, villains, heroes, and ( Read more... )