The Summer 2013 Thieves’ Quarry Blog Tour moves into high gear today with three posts going up at various sites. The first, which can be found at http://www.sfnovelists.com, tells about the evolution of the Thieftaker books from alternate world fantasies to historical fantasies. The post is called “The Book I Didn’t Write.”

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More D. B. Jackson news! I have a new story out (as D.B.) at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, the online magazine. The story is called "A Memory of Freedom," and it is the feature story in this month's issue of IGMS. You can read more about the story here. And, in case you're interested, here is the artwork that accompanies the ( Read more... )

The new issue of Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show is up, and I am this month's guest columnist.  My article is called, "Speculating on Fiction's Name," and it's about how we think of and classify fantasy, science fiction, and other sub genres of speculative fiction.  I hope you'll visit the site and enjoy the article.

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Did some work on my web site yesterday -- added a permanent link to Magical Words, the group blog on the craft and business of writing that I maintain with fellow fantasy authors Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, and C.E. Murphy.  I also put in a new page.  Last year  I had a short story published in Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show.  The ( Read more... )

I've mentioned Edmund Schubert in this space many times before.  Ed is the editor of Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show.  He also edits a couple of magaizines outside our genre.  He's written many short stories, and as of this month he is a published novelist.  He's a dad, a Mets fan, and the owner of several very loud shirts that he ( Read more... )

As promised, a longer post about "Cassie's Story" is now up at the blogsite of Edmund Schubert, editor of Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show.   "Cassie's Story" is my newest short story, and it can now be read at the IGMS website.  Today's post tells a bit about how I came to write the story and what was involved in the editorial ( Read more... )

The new issue (Issue 9) of Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show is online, and "Cassie's Story", my newest piece of short fiction, is now available for viewing.  IGMS isn't free, I'm afraid.  You can register on the site for free, but then it costs $2.50 to view each issue.  This issue is a good one -- in addition to my story, there's ( Read more... )

Reached something of a milestone on the work in progress (Book III of my Blood of the Southlands trilogy) today. You can see it plainly on the bar below:


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Found out this morning that I sold another short story, my second short fiction sale of the year.  The first sale was a contemporary fantasy called "Cassie's Story" that I sold to Edmund Schubert at Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show.  Today's sale was to John O'Neill at Black Gate Magazine.  This story is called "The Lost Children" and ( Read more... )