New Arrival

January 26, 2022

A copy of Lord Quillifer has turned up on my doorstep. I have to say I’m more pleased with the book’s appearance than I thought I’d be. The book’s official released date is February 15, but now that print copies actually exist, they may start infiltrating bookstores ahead of that date. There’s never a bad […]

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Eye-Catching

January 25, 2022

Behold a proposed cover for the next Praxis book, launching next September. This isn’t the final cover, so the published version might be somewhat different. In the meantime, Tor.com published a piece by James Nicoll on five novels featuring a depopulated Earth, with my Knight Moves among them. Depopulating the planet seems to be a […]

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COVID Day Six

January 22, 2022

Late on Day Five (Friday) I began to feel better, at least insofar as I wasn’t spending hours of every day coughing and sneezing and otherwise spending all my time battling the Phlegm Monster. Just as when I have a cold, the Phlegm Monster prowls from sunset to sunrise, keeping me awake and coughing and […]

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COVID Day Four

January 20, 2022

I’m lucky. Mostly it’s like a bad cold. My head is stuffed, and I have coughing and sneezing fits. I can function and perform basic tasks. I didn’t sleep well last night, and I don’t have a lot of energy. But there’s no fever. My O2 levels are 91+. I still have an appetite, and […]

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Take Two

January 19, 2022

The second Covid test came out positive. I don’t know which test to believe, but I guess I’ll be hanging around the house for a while.

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I Don’t Get It

January 18, 2022

Last night I started feeling a little ill, with a sore throat. This morning I still had the sore throat, plus a bit of elevated temperature that fell far short of anything I could call a “fever.” Otherwise I felt reasonably okay. But we’re in a pandemic, right? So Covid was the first thing that […]

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Across the Sea of Genre

January 18, 2022

Who says Taos Toolbox is only for writers of science fiction and fantasy? We teach skills that are applicable across all genres. Case in point: Stephanie Vance, a real-life DC political consultant, has written Across the Aisle, a romance set in our nation’s capital. Tough as nails DC lobbyist Dallas McGrath can’t believe she’s being […]

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Another Fine Sunset Here in the Southwest

January 16, 2022
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Cover Reveal

January 13, 2022

The cover for the forthcoming Czech edition of Hardwired, by an artist who rejoices in the superhero name Dark Crayon.

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Plot Rant

January 13, 2022

I just finished listening to an audio book, a mystery/thriller thingie with an interesting, somewhat science-fictiony premise. The writing was on the high end of competent, and the characters held my interest, and the novel’s milieu was interesting and fresh, at least to me. What finally broke my patience was the author’s method of building […]

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