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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 […]

Let’s talk a bit about the 2003 Daredevil movie and the Daredevil Netflix series that just came out.  The former was largely panned, and is considered one of the low points of the dipping-our-toe-in-this-superhero-thing […]

In the midst of all the other things I’ve got going on, the ArmadilloCon Writers Workshop is quickly coming upon us.  After three years in the co-pilot seat, I’m taking […]

One of the things I love about Game of Thrones is how it uses a wide reach of locations– both in story and in the filming.  They shoot the show in Croatia, […]