The Usual Award Whatsit

February 14, 2022

It’s that time of year when the thoughts of writers turn to awards, and they try to gently urge their readers to nominator their works. As it happens I had no novels published last year, so I won’t be nudging you toward that award. (I’ll have two novels published in 2022, both a Praxis and […]

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The Worst

February 13, 2022

Some days I’m in the mood for a good takedown review, at least if it’s not of one of my books. (And those are often so misguided that they’re funny. I particularly like the ones that complain that I keep interrupting what should be nonstop action scenes with scenes giving psychological complexity to my characters.) […]

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Reviews Too Late: Pandemical Browsing

February 11, 2022

Like all of you, I’ve been consuming a lot of popcorn TV during the latest Covid blitz. Here’s some of what I’ve seen. The Lone Ranger Reacher. Reacher is so very much the Lone Ranger that the series even shows an episode of the Clayton Moore series in the background during a key scene. (Of […]

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Plowing

February 4, 2022

Our Arctic adventure continues! The technician will attempt his repairs once he can get parts for our 35-year-old boiler. In the meantime I’m keeping a fire in the fireplace. (Update: the boiler’s now churning out heat just like it ought, but the house is big and the temperature is going up by one degree per […]

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Cold and Colderer

February 4, 2022

After an afternoon of freezing drizzle, the snow started pouring down late Wednesday afternoon, and by Thursday morning this was the view off the back porch. Despite the sun, the temperature failed to rise above freezing. After a very mild winter, February had come in like a polar hailstorm. I knew the storm was coming […]

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Same Words, Prettier Picture

February 2, 2022

I’ve long been dissatisfied with the purposefully odd but decidedly amateurish cover I designed for my novel Aristoi, and so I decided to do something about it, and approached the splendid artist Elizabeth Leggett, who very graciously agreed to fit me (and the book) into her schedule. Here are the results. Striking, ne? The revised […]

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I Am Scoundrelized

February 2, 2022

Once again I find myself bundled with a bunch of other writers. The Science Fiction Writers of America have curated Scoundrels in Space, a bundle of twelve novels, all available for a more than reasonable price. The featured four novels are available for whatever you want to pay, but if you want all twelve, it’ll […]

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Audio Books on Sale!

January 31, 2022

Chirp, which appears to be a division of BookBub, has put a number of my audio books on sale for $4.99. (Their usual price is anywhere between 20 and 30 dollars.) So if you’d like an audio book of The Rift, Hardwired, Implied Spaces, Metropolitan, or City on Fire, and you don’t want to pay […]

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Out of Jail Free

January 30, 2022

I’m out of COVID Jail, having completed the 10 days of isolation recommended by the CDC following my first positive test. Not that I went anywhere or did anything. I’m not inclined toward frenzied celebration at the moment. I am free of symptoms. Today I ran on the elliptical trainer, did my normal workout, and […]

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Pawn Takes Prize

January 28, 2022

Gabrielle Harbowy attended Taos Toolbox in the last pre-pandemic year, 2019. Since then she’s made good use of her time. A story, “The Dybbuk Ward,” will appear in the March issue of Fantasy magazine, and her novel Aether’s Pawn will appear at the end of February. Here’s a synopsis: Indigo Steelquill — Quills — left her native […]

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