Friend and Taos Toolbox grad Corie Weaver is running a Kickstarter for a new anthology of science fiction stories for middle-grade readers. Among the contributors is Toolbox lecturer Nancy Kress, who will change the name of the protagonist of her story to one of your choosing, assuming of course that you contribute the suggested amount. Other authors […]

So Hardwired, Episode One is now available at Amazon, Kobo, Smashwords, and iBooks.  There’s been a technical problem with Barnes & Noble, but it should be resolved shortly. Yes, I’m serializing a novel that’s already complete and available! Why would I do this, you ask?  Before I get into that, let me point out that it’s FREE. […]

Went to see Louisiana guitar-slinger Sonny Landreth the other day.  He played at the zoo band shell, and probably kept the lions and zebras up past their bedtime. One of the annoying things about seeing guitar wizards is that they invariably attract a crowd of guys in front of the stage who just stand there […]

I’ve been trying to upload an ebook to the iBooks website through Apple’s software iTunes Producer, and it’s just like jabbing knitting needles in my eyeballs!  The interface is terrible, hard to read and confusing, there’s a pop-up that keeps reappearing and you can’t get rid of it, and the results are often something very like gibberish. […]