Here’s my first attempt at a cover for To Glory Arise, originally published as The Privateer. I’m particularly proud of the way in which I smooshed the two ships together to produce a more dramatic composition. Your comments are solicited.

So I’ve just read a steampunk novel, and now I’m going to get all grumpy on its ass. The book had nearly everything you might expect to find in a steampunk novel.  Zeppelins.  Goggles.  Weird pseudo-Vernian inventions.  Intrepid explorers. It ha practically everything on the steampunk checklist except the one thing steampunk actually needs: a […]

I’ve been “enjoying” (if that is indeed the right word) the “controversy” (if that’s what it is) over on John Scalzi’s blog concerning the unconscionable contract boilerplate which Random House proposes to inflict upon the victims, um, I mean authors in its new ebook programs. I won’t summarize the issues here, that’s what the link […]

My house doesn’t have a furnace proper, it has a boiler that pumps hot water to registers in each room.  Which is a terrific, energy-efficient system, right up to the point where the water pump springs a leak.  Oddly enough, it wasn’t the boiler room that flooded, but the closet of the room next door. […]