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OK, time for some hard truths.  You haven’t finished writing That Novel.  You’ve been talking about it for years, and you can visualize all the elements of it so easily.  You […]

So, now that I’ve made the big announcement, I can stop being cagey about what I’ve been working on.  The Way of the Shield  has been turned in, and next up […]

I’ve been hinting for quite some time about big news, and finally I’m ready to tell you about it. First, the slightly sad news: the third Maradaine Constabulary novel, A Parliament […]

So, last year I launched the third Maradaine series, The Streets of Maradaine, to a fair amount of praise and acclaim: “The charming antiheroes will leave you rooting for them long after […]

If you’ve been following me for any length of time, you know that January is a hard time on me, health-wise.  January in Austin is when the cedar pollen starts […]

Hey folks– as I’ve mentioned before, I’m going to be at Boskone in a few weeks, and now I’ve got a schedule!  I’ve been to Boskone twice before, and it’s […]

So, I’ve often said how my time acting on stage has, in part, informed my writing.  Namely, to treat characters as a part that an actor would enjoy playing.  That […]

I’ve always maintained that having secondary projects are an important and valuable thing for a writer to do– usually as something else to work on when the words aren’t flowing […]

So, this is going to sound a bit strange, but my goal for this year, as a writing, is to train myself at being more efficient. Now, I know some […]

Oh God, You Devil was the third movie in the bizarrely fascinating Oh God! series, starring George Burns, and for several months, I did not believe it was real. See, […]