A few weeks ago, after driving home one night, I found myself parked outside of my house, listening to the Cloud Atlas soundtrack. As had happened each time I'd seen the movie, I'd wound up a bit misty-eyed. I recall specifically listening to the end credits theme, moved to borderline tears, and saying out loud in my car, "Someday I will create ( Read more... )

Hey folks,

For anyone who has read Thousand Leaves and/or The Seventh Chakra, or for folks who own copies and would like to help out, I'm looking for some fan community support on a little project ( Read more... )

Well, okay, it's not me. Just my book.

If you look at this piece, you can see that one of the books being magically floated through the air is a copy of my own Thousand Leaves.

(In the picture, I also spot Out of Position, Black Dogs: Part One, Isolation Play, and a volume of Digger; I'm still squinting to see if I can identify more ( Read more... )

Hey folks! For those of you who haven't picked up my books Thousand Leaves and The Seventh Chakra, Sofawolf Press is having a special sale on both of them for the holiday season ( Read more... )

One of the things I get asked about, on a semi-regular basis (relatively speaking), is about the length of the works I write. Most often, this comes in the form of the following conversation:

Potential Reader: Oh, you wrote a book? How long is it?
Rikoshi: Around 120,000 words.
Potential Reader: Oh. ...How many pages is that ( Read more... )

Hey, there, everyone!

I made posts earlier in the year about the round of nominations, but now the actual voting for the 2008 Ursa Major Awards is open!

Also, I'm very, very excited to say that my book Thousand Leaves has received a nomination for the category of Best Novel ( Read more... )

So, in just two weeks from today, I'm heading off to Furry Fiesta.

Two weeks? Seriously? I was just at a furry convention! How did this happen ( Read more... )

After last Wednesday's dinner of awesome with hbruton and pals, Further Confusion 2009 properly started on Thursday morning. This marked my sixteenth furry convention since 2002. I don't know if that makes me feel old or young!


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I am very happy that I do not have a hangover this morning ( Read more... )

I discovered today that there are two new reviews for Thousand Leaves that have been posted on the book's website! They both make me pretty happy, and I'm really glad to see people who I don't even know saying such nice things about my writing (though one of these marks the second review I've seen that complains about the back cover copy, which on ( Read more... )