I have two related, cross-linked posts up today.  They are both on the business of writing and publishing.

The first post is my regular Monday post at the Magical Words blog site, which I maintain with fellow authors Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, John Hartness, and Mindy Klasky.  Today's Magical Words post is called, "'It's Just Business': Loyalty ( Read more... )

The Summer 2013 Thieves' Quarry Blog Tour resumes today with a post at my "home" blog -- the Magical Words site.  Magical Words is the group blog on the business and craft of writing fantasy that I maintain with fellow authors Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, Mindy Klasky, John Hartness, and James Tuck, among others.  Today's post is about a recent ( Read more... )

Today is release day for my good friend and fellow Magical Words writer, A.J. Hartley.  A.J. is the bestselling author of such thrillers as The Mask of Atreus and The Fifth Day.  A.J. now writes fantasy for Tor Books, and his first fantasy novel, Act of Will, which was previously out in hardcover, is being re-released today as a mass market ( Read more... )

I'm a little late to the party with this one -- we had a storm yesterday and it knocked out our internet for a while. But in what appears to be fall-out from the iPad release and new competition between Apple and Amazon over ebook sales, Amazon has now halted direct sales of all MacMillan books, including Tor imprints, until MacMillan stops ( Read more... )

In the summer of 2005, I sold two series to two different publishers.  One, my Blood of the Southlands trilogy, a follow-up to Winds of the Forelands, I sold to Tor, which had also published the Forelands books.  The first book of Blood of the Southlands, The Sorcerers' Plague, came out in December, and the second volume, The Horsemen's Gambit, is ( Read more... )