The Summer 2014 Plunder of Souls Blog Tour stops today at Drey's Library, for my second appearance this month, and at the blog of my agent, friend, and fellow author, Lucienne Diver. At Drey's Library, Sephira Pryce, the beautiful and dangerous thieftaking rival and nemesis of my hero, Ethan Kaille holds forth on the best inventions of modern ( Read more... )

After a really fun release day for Thieves’ Quarry, and for the paperback edition of Thieftaker, I am back at work today with four stops on the Summer 2013 Thieves’ Quarry Blog Tour.

The first post is actually a short story that I co-wrote with my writing BFF and Magical Words co-founder, Faith Hunter.  The story can be found at Faith’s website.  ( Read more... )

Today's post is up at the blogsite of Lucienne Diver, my wonderful agent, who is also a terrific writer in her own right.  This post is a little different than others I've written recently.  It's a fictional vignette in which Ethan Kaille, the hero of the Thieftaker books, visits his rival and nemesis, the lovely and deadly Sephira Pryce.  She ( Read more... )

Some time ago, I was given an advanced reader copy of a book called Powers, by James A. Burton. Burton, the pseudonym of author James Hetley, is represented by my agent, Lucienne Diver, and Jim and Lucienne were interested in having me blurb the book. I read the book in about a week -- a busy week -- and gave it the following blurb ( Read more... )

I'm on my way to Marcon, where I will be a literary special guest. I'm staying tonight in Knoxville, Tennessee, where I had dinner with my wonderful friend, Faith Hunter. Faith and I will be driving up to Columbus tomorrow morning (while her husband, Rod, kayaks!) and joining up with our terrific agent, Lucienne Diver ( 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 “Magical Words at Three Years!” and it celebrates the third anniversary of the founding ( Read more... )

Tonight at 9:00 pm Eastern, fantasy author N.K. Jemisin, author of THE HUNDRED THOUSAND KINGDOMS and THE BROKEN KINGDOMS, will be doing a live chat in the Knight Agency chat room. Like me, N.K. is represented by the fabulous Lucienne Diver (of the aforementioned Knight Agency), so she and I are practically related.  N.K. was recently included on ( Read more... )

Today’s post can be found at http://www.sfnovelists.com, the group blog on speculative fiction that I maintain along with a group of over one hundred published authors of fantasy and science fiction. The post is called “Read This Post! And Other Effective Titles,” and it’s about finding a good title for your book or story. I hope you enjoy it.

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My wonderful agent, Lucienne Diver, is blogging today at Magical Words, the first in what will be monthly appearances by Lucienne.  Today's post is about the business of word counts in novels.  Come visit the site and join the conversation.

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 “Writing Your Book, part IV: The Leading Edge of the Slog” and it’s about the problems one can encounter ( Read more... )