Yesterday Miss B and I went for a run…and stopped half a kilometer in, because her back right paw was bothering her. I brought her back home, though she seemed just fine and bouncy after a little bit of walking, and checked her paws thoroughly. Nothing looked amiss, so I left her at home and [...]

Finished the third (and maybe last) Bannon & Clare book, turned it into a reasonable first draft, and sent it to agent and editor last week. A difficult book, one of the first I finished in the new office and…well, I knew where it ended and I didn’t want it to end there. Fighting your [...]

Guess what? Oh, come on, guess. Many of you have often asked me if my ebook-only offerings from Orbit are going to show up in paper. And now…they have! They’re now available in trade paper, through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and indie bookstores. (You can even get signed copies through Cover to Cover.) The cover [...]

My brain is a mass of porridge right now, because I’m lunging for the end of the third Bannon & Clare book. Which, since it’s happening during a particularly busy month–tax preparation, birthdays for certain young people, changes in school hours and such–is rather a type of torture. My skin feels too tight and everything [...]

Crossposted to Deadline Dames. Check us out! I’m considering some self-publishing. The items in the minus column are overwhelming: investing in editing and copyediting, not to mention the cost of decent cover art, distribution and retail channels and their final effects on price etc. The time investment versus the likely return. Saturating whatever market slice [...]

Matt Frederick / Foter Oh, the Internet. A wonderful place to play, a great boon to a writer. Full of kittens and rainbows and Neil Patrick Harris. It’s also full of things that bite. And I see a lot of writers, new, wannabe, and professional, who don’t take some elementary precautions when playing. So here’s [...]

Foter Crossposted to the Deadline Dames. Yes, of course. Your ebook is reading you. When you’re reading an ebook, every move you make can be tracked–and probably is. Set aside how skeezy it is to have your reading habits suddenly fodder for advertisers’ consumption; what I want to talk about is a passage near the [...]

“We hope, we despair.” Both are human. It’s the sterile wasteland between them that kills. Also, making a book is a long, complicated process. Writing is merely the first stumbling step. (But that first one’s a lulu.) The most interesting bit of the Random House video for me was hearing the editors talk about how [...]