Blog
WTF! You Didn’t Read My Book? I Thought You Loved Me
I’m writing this as an official declaration to all my family, friends, neighbors, business associates, acquaintances, fans, foes, elves, orcs, pets and anyone else I can’t think of to put on this list. This is my official declaration that YOU ARE OFF THE HOOK when it...
Spiders Wipe Their Asses on Your Lips at Night
Did you know that spiders wipe their asses on your lips at night? They do it while you are sleeping. Many people don’t realize this, but it’s true. While you are ignorantly dreaming away, they climb up on your face, all those little spider feet touching your skin,...
Contest – The Galactic Mage Series 3 Book Giveaway Drawing
Well, my experience with the opening trilogy of The Galactic Mage series has been awesome. I am awed by how wonderful readers have been, and how willing people have been to try out a new author in science fiction and fantasy. I can’t even explain how grateful I am to...
What is a REAL Author Anyway? The Difference Between Perdurance and Endurance
I’m writing this for a writer friend of mine who is struggling right now as an artist. She’s hit a rough patch on the already rough road of writing, and now she’s wondering if she even is “a writer” at all. She’s wondering if she is “a real author” at all. And I’ve...
Hostiles Is Out – Book 4 of The Galactic Mage Series Underway
For starters, Hostiles out, and it’s doing great right now. So a great big THANK YOU to everyone who has picked a copy up! You’re helping it climb the Amazon Hot New Releases chart (this morning it was at number 13), and it’s just awesome to have such great support...
Hostiles Update – The Galactic Mage Series Progress
Well, Hostiles is reeeeally close to being done. I have gotten my galley copies from the printer and delivered them to my proofreaders. I’m reading through my copy, and hopefully everyone else has dropped everything in their lives as well to do this singular task....
The Galactic Mage Audiobook – Interview with Narrator David Bodtcher
The Galactic Mage audio book is almost live. I still don’t have an exact date, but I’m expecting it to be somewhere in the next five to ten days. I can’t wait. You are going to be so blown away by how talented the voice actor who narrates it is. His name is David...
Hostiles Cover Revealed – Book 3 of The Galactic Mage Series
Well, here it is. An early look at the cover of Hostiles. I'm stoked! I got the final cover files from Cris Ortega last night, and I am so excited and so pleased with the cover for Hostiles that I can hardly breathe! And while book three of The Galactic Mage series is...
The Galactic Mage Audio Book Is Coming Soon
For a long time I’d been kicking around the idea of getting an audio book version of The Galactic Mage done, but writing Rift in the Races and then working on Hostiles has been a lot of work, and I just didn't get around to it. I knew I should; I knew my wife liked to...
How to Be Happy in Troubled Times: a Genre Writer’s Perspective on Reality
It seems to me as if tensions in the world keep rising all the time. I feel like we live in a time where we just keep ratcheting up the anxiety. In a way, frankly, that’s been good for business for me, because genre fiction is doing great these days as people seek...