From the “this just in” files, I’ve just found out that I’ll be reading a portion of Icarus at Readercon 2008! For those of you who don’t know, Readercon is a major fantasy/sci fi conference–but for writers and readers only. If you’re looking to try out your new Klingon Battlecruiser Commander outfit on for size […]

Recently there’s been an interesting series of posts over at Jim Hines’s blog about the pitfalls of being a writer, which are legion. Most of these are things you’ll already understand even if you don’t write yourself: the sense that your time is never really free because you could always be working on this draft […]

So I’ve been trying to think of what the most appropriate kind of opening post (beyond the usual Greetings fare, which doesn’t really count) would be for this brand new site. I mean, most people are blog savvy by now, and they’re going to expect something insightful at best, passably entertaining at worst from me–and […]

Welcome to the author side of my brand spanking new website! This part of the site will be dedicated to anything and everything related to my writing career, from books to readings to signings and everything in between. I plan to write here regularly on a whole variety of issues related to being an author; […]