I’m kind of fascinated by TED talks, as they are these esoteric nuggets of wisdom or (more often than not) psuedo-wisdom boiled down to eight to twelve minutes.  But I […]

Still well into ComicPalooza, in which I’m having a lovely time, but saints, is this thing huge.  It is kind of a trade off for a writer to come to something […]

I figured it’s time to answer a few of the questions that I haven’t been getting. How do you pronounce Veranix’s name? “Veranix” has the same vowel sounds and syllabic […]

This weekend I found out that The Thorn of Dentonhill made the Locus Bestsellers List.  It’s the May list, but it represents the sales from February.  But there it is– a top […]

To date, I’ve largely avoided any sort of serious social media gaffe, on either side of the equation.  But sooner or later, as I put more books out, something is […]

There really are two things you need to sell as a writer: the competence to write something well, and the confidence to send it out into the world. The challenge […]

It still strikes me as odd how many “friends” I have that I’ve never met.  This is despite having lived through various iterations of on-line interactivity, but we’ve reached a […]

I’ve been talking in vague terms about the sequels to The Thorn of Dentonhill and A Murder of Mages.   But now, finally, I can say that DAW will be publishing both […]

Here’s the thing about being a published writer: to some degree, you’re putting yourself in the public spotlight.  What you do with that spotlight, however small and faint, is up […]

When I was a kid, one of the cliched things we were told about Native Americans was how they used “every part of the buffalo”.  Now, this is a perfectly […]