Just Like That

With the push of a button, Tooth & Nail is officially published. There’s a lot of “you should have a

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Exclusivity vs. Openness

With the approaching completion of Tooth & Nail, I face a philosophical quandary: do I drink the Kindle Kool-Aid or

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Tumblr, Editing & Website Revamps.

Revamps. Get it? Ha! I kill me! I read a fantastic idea for free marketing: give one’s characters their own

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Stealth Launch: For Science!

I’ve published a new short story called “Complications”. It was inspired by Machine of Death and I obtained the explicit permission of

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Starting 2013 at a Sprint

December was occupied almost entirely with an extensive rewrite of Tooth & Nail, the sequel to Perishables. I had to

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Publishing Plans & Tentative Timetables

The cover artist for Perishables (the awesome John Ward) recently sent me a message noting he hadn’t heard from me

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Midnight Madness

I cannot believe Target is opening on Thanksgiving Day. I wrote a novel featuring a vampire trying to buy a

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Sequels vs. Grad School: Task Queues of the Damned

Ten years ago I waded into my first National Novel Writing Month with an idea that had been banging around

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“Advertising Costs Money. New Stories Make Money.”

The title of this post is a quote from a fantastic blog post/interview/conversation between Joe Konrath and Barry Eisler. Eisler

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Everything Takes Time, Not Everything Takes Money

First off, Dragon*Con was a tremendous amount of fun. I got to do some good networking and exchanged cards with

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