Yay! I'm super-psyched to have a new book out.

Hive & Heist is a caper novel set on a a space station, which is everything a person really needs to know about it I think. If you want to learn more details, you can read everything ever on my author website (or Amazon.com).

Sweet! My young adult space opera, Queen & Commander is now available in most of the major ebook stores. (Y'know: amazon, kobo, b&n nook, iTunes -- across all countries.)

( About Queen & Commander )

When I'm in a good mood, rollerblading on the beach just adds to life's...idyllic-ness.

When I'm in a bad mood, it puts things in perspective. See, today I had a horrible time with my pays-pennies-on-the-hour editing job.
( Here's some specifics for the nosy people. )

You guys! I'm a published author now.

Well, Victoria Pond is, but that's fine with me.

My short story "Heir Apparent" is in the ebook anthology Masked Pleasures.

I know that my story is about lost love, gender roles, politics, and a bit of druidry...and the sales copy tells you about the rest:

Michael M. Jones’s “Devil’s Masquerade” takes us ( Read more... )

Properly, the title of this entry should be The Rise of the E-Book and What It Doesn't Mean to Me.

Today, a Twitterer linked to yet another recent article about e-books and the future of publishing. This one was from the WSJ. You can read it for yourself, but I'll summarize here. With the use of pretty graphs and quotes from big name publishing ( Read more... )

This was "bad book month" from the library apparently. While not as bad as the 9th grade crazy-paranoia-parent one, they still deserve warning.

( For the Writers )

Originally, I'd been planning to write this post about how I've read a zillion books lately. It was really only going to cover what I'd hit since the last time I went to the library--five days ago?--but that's still an intention ( Read more... )

As promised (forewarned?), here are my surprise favorite items of 2007 ( Read more... )

Someday, there will be a real LJ post, but I'm way too tired at the moment. So you can get a quick, short version of what maybe someday will be 7 posts.

1 - ( Drama with my parking structure. )

Sorry all my reviews have been so short lately, f-list. I seem to be overloading on the number of reviews at a time. Hopefully that'll die down, and I'll be back to "one decent post per book" in the future.

5 stars of 5

( Jennifer Fallon - Warrior )