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I write action-filled books, so obviously, my characters are going to be armed.  This is something I put a lot of thought into when first designing the characters and the […]

All right, I’m still in the thick of NYCC type stuff.  My signing yesterday was fantastic.  I don’t know what I was expecting, but it certainly wasn’t a line of […]

When other writers talk about characters “getting away from them” or “out of their control”, I have to confess, I’m at a bit of a loss to understand that.  I’m […]

So, this weekend, I needed to get a lot of writing work done.  Of course, this is true just about every day, but seeing how the previous weekend I was at […]

So, if you’re in New York City and you’re going to NYCC, or if you’re thre and you’re NOT going to NYCC, there’s a great event with great authors that […]

So, this past weekend was FenCon, which I enjoyed greatly.  I had a number of lovely panels, including one on worldbuilding where I got to talk about how obsessive I […]

Synopses are a necessary evil.  You need them to query, you need them to submit to publishers.  No writer I’ve talked to likes doing them.  They’re horrible. Well, maybe not […]

Next weekend I will be at FenCon up in the Dallas area.  I’m really looking forward to it, as this time around I get to talk about worldbuilding, space opera, […]

As I’m now hip deep into the process of the third Thorn book, I’ve developed a lot more respect for writers whose subplots “get away from them”, as it were. […]

As a result of both my current “crockpot” project being fully in its worldbuilding stage, I’ve been putting together some of my bottom-up worldbuilding thoughts into a more cohesive form. […]