City on Fire Goes Live!

May 3, 2012

City on Fire has gone live on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords. Congratulations to B&N, which actually made the book available before Amazon did.  Good work, O brick-and-mortar dinosaur! And though you can buy the book from Smashwords, it won’t be sent to any of the Smashwords affiliates (like Kobo and iBooks) for some […]

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Mystery Pix, Solved!

May 2, 2012

DorjePismo was right, the Mystery Picture was a Native American structure, or what’s left of one. In fact it was probably a kiva, an underground ceremonial structure.  At any rate, it was the largest room in the small, mesa-top pueblo. I won’t say where we were, except that we were roughly in the Four Corners […]

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City on Fire, Cover 1.0

May 1, 2012

Here’s my first go at a cover for City on Fire.  I couldn’t find a piece of art as broody and awesome as that of Metropolitan, but then I don’t get that lucky every time.

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Crowd reSource

May 1, 2012

You can all go to war now.  You don’t even have to be of military age.  All you need is a Internet connection, and if you’re reading this, you’ve already got one of those. Just pick what side you want to be on, figure out what you have to contribute, and get busy. Technology Review […]

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Mystery Pix

April 29, 2012

As I mentioned a few posts ago, I was out of town this week in a location so remote that I had access neither to Internet nor phone. Here’s a picture of one of the places I visited. My question for you all is, What is this? “It’s a piece of southwestern countryside” is a […]

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Native Language (a flashback)

April 27, 2012

I’m wrapped up in projects, including getting City on Fire ready for ebook release, so I thought I’d offer an essay I originally posted seven years ago, in which I discuss my native language, and why I don’t know what it is.   –wjw My native language isn’t English. The problem is, I don’t know […]

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Today Is Tregillis Day

April 26, 2012

I thought I’d give a shout-out to my friend Ian Tregillis, whose fine first novel Bitter Seeds has just been released in mass-market paperback. This is Book One of the Milkweed Triptych, the very name of which will tell you that there are two more books somewhere in the pipe.  (The next, The Coldest War,  […]

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“Investments” Has Arrived!

April 25, 2012

I’ve spent the last three days in a place so remote and blissful that there was neither Internet nor telephone.  Interesting things happened there, and I’ll tell you about it if the photos turn out. Hours before I left, I managed to upload my short novel “Investments,” set in the Praxis universe.  And now I […]

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Praxis on Sale!

April 20, 2012

Hey, guys! Harper has very kindly put The Praxis, the first of my Dread Empire books, on sale for $2.99 for Kindle and for Nook! If you haven’t got started on this series, now’s your chance.  And if you have the book and like it, feel free to recommend it to a friend! As for […]

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Metropolitan: the Lawyers

April 20, 2012

I’m now delighted to report that Metropolitan is now available for the Nook.  It always takes a little longer over at the brick-and-mortar store, but now it’s done. Mad downloading and rejoicing may commence! This is the third of a series of essays on my novel Metropolitan, and will deal with its commercial and legal […]

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