Boskone 53

February 17, 2016

I’ll be spending the weekend at Boskkone 53, Boston’s stellar science fiction convention.  (Our motto: “It’s still about the books!  Except when it’s about the whiskey!  But it’s mostly about the books!”) But beforehand I’ll be in Cambridge, MA, for a signing and chat at the Pandemonium bookstore, Thursday at 7pm.  The signing will include […]

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The iBooks Store: Stairway to Oblivion

February 17, 2016

So let’s all do this exercise together, shall we? Let’s say that you want to find one of my books on iBooks, but you’ve never been on iBooks and don’t have an account there.  So the first thing you do is Google iBooks, which gives you this: So let’s say you click the link to […]

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Public Service Announcement

February 16, 2016

I saw last night’s episode of Castle, in which Richard Castle read from one of his books at a party for $15,000. I would like you all to know that I, too, will read at your party for $15,000, and that you’re more likely to get me than to get Richard Castle. Thank you.  Operators are […]

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Reliable

February 15, 2016

Unreliable Narrators has posted a podcast interview with me, in which we discuss Taos Toolbox and then go on to other subjects. (UPDATE:  Part II of the interview is now available.) Three of the four interviewers are Toolbox graduates, and their enthusiasm for the workshop is evident.  (Which means, folks, that they like the workshop even after […]

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Reviews in the Nick of Time: Hail, Caesar!

February 14, 2016

Hail, Caesar is a love letter from the Coen Brothers to Old Hollywood, and if you’re a fan of old movies, this is the movie they made just for you.  The film is even better if you have any memories of Esther Williams flicks, hokey Victor Mature historical epics, and anything with singing cowboys and/or […]

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Toolbox: the Video

February 11, 2016

A friend of the workshop, indiepub guru E.M. Tippetts, has created this awesome promotional video for Taos Toolbox.  Because a picture is worth 1000 words. And she did this totally on her own, without my asking even.  Now how cool is that?  

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Newer. Prettier. But the Same.

February 7, 2016

I’ve been engaged in the detail work of bringing my ebooks up to the modern standard, modern being “2016” as opposed to “2012.”  Which is to say they look prettier, are better organized, have functioning tables of contents, and almost entirely up-to-date clickable lists of my other works, so that you can find them and […]

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Touching on the Toolbox

February 5, 2016

There are still some places left at Taos Toolbox, the master class for writers of science fiction and fantasy.  If you’re a workshop veteran and missing the workshop community, or someone who’s sold some work and stalled, or someone who hasn’t sold anything at all but is serious about your career, you owe it to […]

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Turtle Tag

February 3, 2016

Turtles.  Because they’re awesome. Last year on Maui, we were diving Lahaina Pier, and there was this little turtle, maybe a foot across, that was kind of swooping in and around and playing tag with us.  And then the guide pointed out something, and we got interested in that, and the turtle got more and […]

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Genres Extinct

February 3, 2016

My recent post about Nevil Shute set me thinking about literary genres, and their rise and fall.  Shute’s own particular niche is pretty well dead— not a lot of stories about zeppelins or epic aircraft flights being written these days.  But Shute’s in good company. For example, I think we can safely say that the […]

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