I never get any less busy, and posting is always the first thing that gets left behind, so let's pretend this is a catch-up post.

Two weekends ago, I was at sword camp, and it was good. Well, more than good; it was great. The same gang that does the bi-annual WMAW conference put together a special event on the off-year to celebrate the 600th ( Read more... )

Sunday was the first of the Foolscap Summer Reading Series, wherein I rambled on for nearly three hours to a room of attentive and interactive listeners. It was more of a rolling discussion than a Watch The Monkey Dance! sort of show, but scarlettina was kind enough to tweet the proceedings and make it seem like all the bon mots were coming from me. For the ( Read more... )

The gang at Foolscap have tapped me to start off their summer reading series. Saturday, June 26th from 2:00pm - 5:00pm at the Shoreline Library.

Three hours, gang. I'll read something from the CODEX books (as that's ostensibly why we're there), talk about some of the world-building (read geek out about the occult), and I'm sure someone will ( Read more... )

There's a regular geek-up in San Francisco called Dorkbot, and a couple of the SF-based Subutai officers will be at this week's meeting on Wednesday (Facebook event listing). They'll demo The Mongoliad and engage in a little Q & A. For those of you not in SF, we've put up a YouTube video of Neal Stephenson and Greg Bear doing the talking head ( Read more... )

Today was my first day of being a full-time writer, and frankly, it was rather mundane. Started clearing my desk and making it a useful workspace. At which point, I realized that all the books on the south side of the room were books I didn't need that close at hand, and all the books on the north side and west side were the active projects, and ( Read more... )

I gave notice at my day job today. Fourteen years I've been there. Wrapping it up in the next two weeks to go be a writer full-time. I know. All of a sudden, isn't it? Well, it's been a long process of working in the wee hours of the day and night, but I've finally reached a point where I can't do everything all the time. I have reached the ( Read more... )

This rush of content just makes it LOOK like I'm taking over the world.

Fantasy Magazine: Mark Teppo, of Men and Magick"I’ve attempted to map most of the 'spells' [in LIGHTBREAKER], if you will, to existing practices, but as the foundation of the system is the rigorous belief that Will powers intent and expression, the resulting system becomes ( Read more... )

Two posts at Amazon's Omnivoracious, offering some background on the CODEX books.

On the Nature of Magick"Like I said, the definition is a bit slippery, and it might be a bit much to attribute to the writing of a pulpy occult noir book the grandiose intent of creating magick, but that's part of what inspired the Codex of Souls. Not so much making ( Read more... )

Mad Hatter Review asks a dozen writers about the weirdest book they've ever read. I was one of the twelve, and you can find that list here.

LIGHTBREAKER makes Locus Magazine's 2009 Recommended Reading list. Under the First Novel category, where I share the joy with fellow Night Shade author Paolo Bacigalupi (whose The Windup Girl is garnering ( Read more... )

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