I'm running a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for my next Marla Mason novel, Lady of Misrule. A $10 donation gets you the e-book, and when you give more, you get... more!

There are nine days left on the campaign as I write this, and it's already funded, so the book's definitely going to happen. I'm so close to hitting the stretch goal that will ( Read more... )

Won't somebody rid me of these troublesome books? --King Henry II, probably
The time has come for my more-or-less annual book sale. I just got another box of author copies, and books are filling up my house and tottering in dangerous piles. I also have quarterly estimated taxes due in September so money is welcome ( Read more... )

I've been corresponding a bit with an aspiring novelist who finished his first novel and is likely going to self publish it, after some frustration with trying to find an agent and publisher. He wants to be a professional writer and is very eager to get published; it's a feeling I remember well. He also feels a bit remote from the scene because he ( Read more... )

The headline is: my wife and co-editor Heather Shaw and I are hoping to revive our 'zine Flytrap, this time paying professional rates, and are running a Kickstarter to raise money.We're 41% funded with 24 days to go, so signs are promising, but we'd really love help spreading the word -- and, of course, if you'd like to give, we'd appreciate it ( ( Read more... )

First, there is now an audiobook of The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl available for your listenings! Narrated by Marguerite Croft, and with a great cover by Jenn Reese. Go, download, listen, enjoy. (And go ahead and get some of my other audiobooks while you're at it ( Read more... )

Well. That Kickstarter I did went pretty okay, didn't it?Back in the day, Random House paid me $20K for each of the first four Marla Mason books. So... getting pretty close to that here. (Though not as close as it looks, once I deduct my costs for commissioning cover art and illustrations, shipping books to people, etc.) Plus, my single biggest ( Read more... )

We're deep into the last day of my Kickstarter for Bride of Death, so if you were thinking of becoming a backer, now is the time. Every time I look at the Kickstarter page I am filled with joy and delight at the generosity of my readers -- and the power of crowdfunding to make art compatible with financial necessities. What I'm trying to say is, ( Read more... )

Each Tuesday for the month of February I'm posting a different story about my character Marla Mason. This week we have "A Cloak of Many Worlds," written as a Kickstarter reward for one of my previous crowdfunded projects. This one's a bit unusual, in that Marla doesn't actually appear in the story, apart from a couple of mentions -- but it's about ( Read more... )

Each Tuesday for the month of February I'm going to post a different story about my character Marla Mason. This week we have "Little Better than a Beast." It first appeared in anthology Those Who Fight Monsters in 2011, and is available in audio form at Podcastle.

(This is a transparent attempt to tempt people into supporting my Kickstarter for ( Read more... )

Here are some things:

I sold a story! "Ghostreaper, or, Life after Revenge" will appear in a future issue of Eclipse Online. I've admired the stories editor Jonathan Strahan has published in the magazine (and in the anthology series before that), so I'm pleased to be part of it. The story is a novelette about a modern guy who gets a magical spear ( Read more... )