I had the great pleasure of being part of the third installment of a fantastic Sword & Sorcery podcast over on SF Signal. How fantastic was it? I got to spend time yacking with the likes of Scott Lynch, Saladin Ahmed, Ari Marmell and Jon Sprunk, all under the watchful eyes of our hosts, Jaym Gates and Patrick Hester. It was a blast (and I say that ( Read more... )

I have a question for the calligraphers and illuminators out there ( Read more... )

So I realize I've updated everywhere but here. It seems instant posting (FB and Twitter) is winning out over longer blog posts for me, at least given the pace things have been going lately. Convenience over content -- it's a trend that bothers me, and I'll see if I can't combat it (in my corner of the 'verse, at least) after the Month-O-Chaos ends ( Read more... )

 (Cross-posted to, or from, or in the general vicinity of, the Wyrdsmiths blog)

So, the exciting news of the day, for me, is that I am the featured Big Idea author over John Scalzi's "Whatever" blog. (Makes me feel almost a teeny bit famous, you know?)

It was one of those pieces where I knew precisely what I wanted to write about the moment I sat ( Read more... )

Gah! LJ won't copy all the links from my post over at the Wyrdsmith's blog over to here (it wants "text only" for it's c&p). So rather than re-doing it all (hey, I have a book to write, okay?), I'm going to direct you all over there for information about my reading and signing dates and the latest on-line book reviews and interviews. There are also ( Read more... )

So, this being the 21st century, and me having a book coming out, and we all being on the internet, I naturally set up Google Alerts to notify me when someone even THINKS about my book. And, this being my first book, and that clearly not being enough, I have been known to (now and then)* wander over the Goodreads, where my publisher gave away some ( Read more... )

I'm deep in (attempted) word generation at the moment, but thought I'd come up long enough to let everyone know that there is an excerpt from "Among Thieves" up over at my website now. (The direct link, in case people want to share, is: http://bit.ly/evrnwA )

There are also links to the sole ( Read more... )

 I wanted my next post here to be something non-book related. You know, what I've been up, how things are going--an updatey kind of post since I haven't made one in a long time.

Then I got three of these in the mail today.....


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The following is cross-posted from the Wyrdsmiths blog:

Any writer will tell you that getting the cover art for your book is exciting. It is, in essence, both you and your book's face to the world; your chance to make that critical "first impression" and, hopefully, gain a new reader.

It's also pretty cool because, you know, someone is making a ( Read more... )

 Because it just seems to keep rolling in...

"Among Thieves" has been picked up for publication in Germany by Verlagsgruppe Random House, under their Heyne imprint. With luck, if they like it, they will pick up the other books in the series, but either way, I'm floored. Again.

No idea of German publication date as yet.

But, yeah. Wow. A lot.

ETA: It ( Read more... )