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Announcements, new editions, travel, diving, cooking and the working life of a novelist — 3,174 entries, all of them here in full.
June 8, 2015 · 104 words
Nemesis In the House
Nemesis Games, the new book by my pal James S.A. Corey, appeared a couple days ago. I’ve been reading it, and it’s a winner, which I know because I’m having a hard time putting it down. This is the fifth book in The Expanse, the first book of which is Leviathan Wakes, so you should probably start there. […]
Read entry →June 4, 2015 · 551 words
99 Cents
My 99-cent sale of To Glory Arise ended a few days ago, and was a success. It reached #21 on Barnes & Noble, and #52 on Amazon . . . though, as is normal with these kind of promotions, it retained those numbers for less than a day. Because action-adventure sells better than SF, To Glory […]
Read entry →June 3, 2015 · 337 words
Time for a Change
May I recommend to you my new story, “The Venetian Dialectic,” to be found in The Change, a brand-new anthology edited by S.M. Stirling? The story takes place in Steve’s Emberverse, in which he’s been writing for damn near 20 years now. In order to understand the story, you need only to know that in this […]
Read entry →June 2, 2015 · 1,094 words
Family
So what good is family, exactly? Raising children, obviously, and caring for the elderly; establishing a financial and property arrangement to the benefit of all members; providing emotional support, a loving and safe environment; a sensible division of labor. All of which is to some degree supported and regulated by l
Read entry →June 2, 2015 · 250 words
Mountain Mysteries
The Rio Hondo workshop is over for another year, and I’m scrambling to catch up with my normal life, such as it is. And prepare for Taos Toolbox, which begins in less than a month. Here I am in the Commandant’s chair at the head of the table in our meeting room at Snow Bear, […]
Read entry →May 30, 2015 · 61 words
Getting Stuffed
Here’s your cute cat picture of the day. Except, y’know, dead bobcat plus chemicals plus mannikin. Because we’re sharing a hotel with the New Mexico Taxidermy Convention, and there’s a whole giant room full of stuffed animals in lifelike poses. Plus Corvettes. Because the Corvette Fancy is here too. So Corvettes, Taxid
Read entry →May 29, 2015 · 54 words
Not Paleo
Courtesy of Diana Rowland, the “potato po’boy,” a New Orleans treat with which I was previously unacquainted. A hoagie roll slathered with mayonnaise, filled with french fries, and then drowned in brown gravy. A very good thing, if this is the sort of thing you think is good. Of course, your pancreas can disagree.
Read entry →May 24, 2015 · 78 words
Sale on Sail!
My first published novel, To Glory Arise, originally titled The Privateer when it was first released, will be on sale for the next week for a mere $0.99. It’s available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Google Play, Smashwords, iBooks, and (for those of you on the Indian subcontinent) Flipkart. The book is jolly good fu
Read entry →May 19, 2015 · 267 words
Clickable
So I have an ebook promotion coming up, and I’ve been uploading new versions of some of my ebooks to the various sites. The new versions have clickable links, which means that if you like the book, you can immediately click on another book by me and and download it. (And that is certainly an […]
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