Some days I’m in the mood for a good takedown review, at least if it’s not of one of my books. (And those are often so misguided that they’re funny. I particularly like the ones that complain that I keep interrupting what should be nonstop action scenes with scenes giving psychological complexity to my characters.) […]

Our Arctic adventure continues! The technician will attempt his repairs once he can get parts for our 35-year-old boiler. In the meantime I’m keeping a fire in the fireplace. (Update: the boiler’s now churning out heat just like it ought, but the house is big and the temperature is going up by one degree per […]

I’ve long been dissatisfied with the purposefully odd but decidedly amateurish cover I designed for my novel Aristoi, and so I decided to do something about it, and approached the splendid artist Elizabeth Leggett, who very graciously agreed to fit me (and the book) into her schedule. Here are the results. Striking, ne? The revised […]

Chirp, which appears to be a division of BookBub, has put a number of my audio books on sale for $4.99. (Their usual price is anywhere between 20 and 30 dollars.) So if you’d like an audio book of The Rift, Hardwired, Implied Spaces, Metropolitan, or City on Fire, and you don’t want to pay […]