Straight Face

July 15, 2016

I’m up on a mountain along with Nancy Kress, helping fourteen very talented new writers hone their craft, and so I’ve been very busy.  But I’m not totally out of touch, and I was as surprised and baffled as anyone when Britain’s new PM appointed Boris Johnson* as foreign minister. If you want to start […]

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Lord Nelson in Spaaaaaace!

July 12, 2016

Today is the release day for my friend David D. Levine’s first novel, Arabella of Mars.  The story features the Napoleonic Wars fought between planets by a sailing navy, and showcases a young heroine described as “a Patrick O’Brian girl fighting a Jane Austen world.” David talks more about the book and its concepts over on Scalzi’s […]

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Crescent Moon Kingdom

July 8, 2016

I’ve finished the novel.  (Yay!)  But all that means is that I have to finish reading and critiquing 140,000 words of fiction for the Taos Toolbox workshop, which starts on Sunday.  (Yay?) So I am still buried in work, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy this photo of the crescent moon at sunset, taken […]

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Billionaires in Spaaaaace!

July 5, 2016

I’m still on a mad rush to finish the novel, so I thought I’d pose a question for you all, and let you do the work of filling up this blog space. A number of American billionaires (Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Paul Allen, and Robert Bigelow, for starters) plus one highly-leveraged Brit (Sir Richard Branson) […]

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The Final Hours

July 3, 2016

We’re down to the last hours of the 99-cent sale on Voice of the Whirlwind, so if you want an inexpensive ebook with a preposterous number of five-star reviews, now’s your chance. Check out the links at Amazon, Google, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, and Kobo.

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Super. Liminal.

July 1, 2016

I’m still slogging through the final pieces of the book, trying to mop up the subplots in something resembling an organized manner. But you don’t have to wait for my new work to be published, you can read something by me right now in Lightspeed Magazine! Admittedly “Surfacing” is a novella that’s decades old, and that […]

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Struggle

June 29, 2016

I’m fully engaged in trying to finish a novel, while also preparing for this year’s Taos Toolbox, so I’ve not been posting much here. I recently came across a quote from Vladimir Nabokov: “In a first-rate work of fiction the real clash is not between the characters but between the author and the world.” I’m […]

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That Seems to Have Worked Out Well

June 27, 2016

My new sale has put Voice of the Whirlwind at #1 for SF at Kobo, and landed me on Amazon’s best-seller list.  Which is not bad for a thirty-year-old book. Should you desire a copy for your ownself, feel free to click the link to Amazon, Google, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, and Kobo.

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WRX– First Impressions

June 24, 2016

Britain didn’t merely shoot itself in the foot, but managed somehow to slice off both legs below the knee.  At least it will be cheap to visit there in the future, if I can avoid being eaten by the starving cave dwellers lurking in the cellars of the once-great metropoleis. But anyway I want to […]

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Return of the Whirlwind

June 22, 2016

The recently-ended promotion of Hardwired turned out to be the best ever, so I’d like to thank those of you who clicked the buy button. On the theory that one should reinforce success, I’m hoping to repeat or even top Hardwired’s sales with a 99-cent sale on Voice of the Whirlwind. You may find VotW at Amazon, Google, Smashwords, […]

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