Dispatches since 2005
The journal
Announcements, new editions, travel, diving, cooking and the working life of a novelist — 163 entries, all of them here in full.
January 29, 2015 · 107 words
My Top Ten Bestselling Novel . . .
. . . is seventeen years old. The Rift got to #7 on the Barnes & Noble list today. Hadn’t ever broken the Top Fifty on B&N before. And The Rift also topped out at #32 on the Amazon list, and I hadn’t got into the Top 100 with any of my books before. So hurrah! […]
Read entry →January 28, 2015 · 92 words
Wreck the Country for Only 99 Cents!
The Rift, which is literally my weightiest tome, is now on sale for a mere 99 cents! You can find it at Amazon, iBooks, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords! If you had a hardback of this book, which is something like 575 pages and 310,000 words, and you dropped it on your foot, I would […]
Read entry →January 27, 2015 · 264 words
Another Contest, Oh Yay!
Okay, I’m canceling the last contest because it just seemed to confuse everybody. Honestly, I thought the crypto solve would be a lot easier than the airplane photo. Shows you what I know. So, for free audio books of the entire Praxis trilogy, be the first to answer the following question: “What common household implem
Read entry →January 26, 2015 · 1,626 words
Reviews Too Late: Catch Them When You Can
I often use this space to complain about the wretchedness of what I’ve been watching, so I thought I’d do a change-up and praise a couple films that practically everyone else seems to hate. Both movies have colossal star power and intelligent scripts, but the problem seems to be that they’re much more intelligent than
Read entry →January 24, 2015 · 102 words
The Next Contest
I have more free copies of audio Praxis books to give away! Whoever solves the following puzzle will receive codes to give him free downloads of The Praxis, The Sundering, and Conventions of War. I decided to reference my own Deep State and provide a crossword-style clue. Be warned: this is an English-style crossword,
Read entry →January 21, 2015 · 119 words
Mystery Plane Contest!
The Dread Empire’s Fall audio books, comprising The Praxis, The Sundering, and Conventions of War, have just been released. I’ve got some free downloads of the complete set to give away, and the first set will go to the first person who can identify this aircraft. Sorry about the quality of the photograph. It was the b
Read entry →January 21, 2015 · 203 words
Prudence and Others
My recent highway odyssey from Long Island to New Mexico reminded me of the first few times I crossed the country, in a beat-up, mechanically dubious, bright red 1972 Chevy van with something like a hundred thousand miles on it. Nothing on this machine worked except the drive train, and that unreliably. The radio was [
Read entry →January 18, 2015 · 95 words
Hear Me!
Behold, I am podcast! The interview was scheduled for half an hour, but apparently I was so fascinating that Jeremiah and Jason let it run for full sixty minutes. Although much of the latter part the interview has to do with my Star Wars novel, folks uninterested in the Star Wars universe (all three of […]
Read entry →January 13, 2015 · 758 words
Trama Idiota
So how often have you seen, or read, this? Your stalwart detective protagonist is on the trail of the bad guys, who are maybe serial killers, or anyway are known to kidnap and torture people. The bad guys then threaten not the detective, who is of course too stalwart to pay attention to such threats, […]
Read entry →January 10, 2015 · 1,045 words
Taking the Bullet
I got a bunch of free premium channels for a limited time, and I saw “The Lone Ranger” so you’ll never have to. I don’t know why I keep taking these bullets for you people. It’s not like I’m paid for this, and it’s not like the bullets are real silver. I thought, as I […]
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