Yup, and the release of COLD WELCOME is April 11.   Next week.  Yeeps!  For more about COLD WELCOME, visit the description (with cover!) on the Universes site or wander over to the Universes blog to see how its sequel, INTO THE FIRE is progressing.
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Today was a great birthday.   First, all my websites and their embedded blogs are now safely moved to a new site, live and functioning their new home.   All done...and I am grateful to all involved in this, from the wonderful staff at my former host, SFF.net (waving at Jeffry and Steve)  to my original web guru Ruta, whose designs transferred so ( Read more... )

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So today the news came out that Simon and Schuster, a formerly independent major publisher now owned by CBS, has offered a $250,000 advance to Milo Yiannopoulos for his book on himself.   This is not a person I admire.  The thought of his getting a book contract doesn't please me, and the thought of his getting an advance so much higher than I've ( Read more... )

1. Page proofs done for Cold Welcome, and the next stage in its progress towards a release in Apri ( Read more... )

Two things from Sunday's Twitter stream left me somewhat frustrated, as
I agreed a lot with one part of a discussion, and disagreed a lot with another.

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Writers get a lot of routine questions, some of which we find amusing, some annoying, and some tiresome because we've answered them fifty million times already.    "Where to do you get your ideas?"  (They falleth like the gentle rain from heaven...)   "How much did you have to pay to get your book published?"  (Nothing--the publisher pays me for ( Read more... )

The fifth and final volume of Paladin's Legacy, Crown of Renewal, officially debuts tomorrow in the US.   (It's been out about a week in the UK, and sneaked out the back door to arrive at Balticon and into a few stores a day or two ago.)   For those unaware of what I've been writing the past umpty-ump years, Paladin's Legacy is the story of what ( Read more... )

Arriving home from the NYC trip and almost immediately falling sick (a flu-like illness, but it either wasn't flu, or the flu shot taken before the trip changed its course somewhat) did nothing to accelerate writing, biking, or knitting.  Or, for that matter, house-cleaning, laundry, cooking...or anything else.

However, well at last, I'm back on ( Read more... )

This was 'ported over from the Paksworld blog, on the grounds that it might interest others who don't read fantasy.   If you read it there, it's pretty much the same.

Ritual disclaimer: nobody gets through a long writing career without some mistakes.  You will sometimes trust the wrong research source (even if it’s someone who should have the ( Read more... )