I’ve just about decided on this one: Let me know what you think. Although my agent liked the initial manuscript, she felt it was a bit to non-PC (she never quite said it that way, but there were more than a few comments along the lines of, “Well, we need to change this, because it [...]
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Progress Update on Lightning Fall
Looks like I’ll be getting notes back from my agent on the book sometime after the first of the year. Early indications are that I didn’t mess up the ms. with the first round of additions/revisions. Ah, the joys of process! Anybody want to argue about manuscript format?
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madgeniusclub | Just another WordPress.com site I’ve recently been roped into a writerly blog chain called the Next Big Thing. It involves writers doing a Q&A about their latest work in progress, then tagging five other writers at the bottom of their post. The Q&A posts from those writers, then appears exactly one week later [...]
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(Cover, Steven Pressfield’s Do the Work) I’m coming into the homestretch on finishing the first draft of the initial book in my trilogy, The Rise and Fall of the American Republic, currently titled Death and Destruction. (The second and third are, respectively, Revolution and Rebirth, and Vengeance and Victory). Unfortunately, just finishing the first [...]
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Quick, Get Me A Flashlight | According To Hoyt Doesn’t matter anyway. Literary value is a will o’ the wisp and has been used for centuries by those-who-know-better to tell the masses what ’orrible little people they are and what ’orrible ’horrible taste they have. (Shakespeare. All that blood. Ghosts. Inaccurate history. Rotted the mind [...]
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The Big Idea: Richard Kadrey – Whatever Richard Kadrey’s “Sandman Slim” series is one of my favorite sets of fantasy books from the last few years, so it’s a pleasure to bring Kadrey back to the Big Idea to talk about its latest installment, Aloha From Hell. This time around, and with a nod to [...]
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…about me continuing to put up my old Analog short fiction? Frankly, it’s a pain in the ass. Either I pay somebody a lot of money per page (by my standards) to scan and copyedit the stories, or I dictate them via Dragon Naturally Speaking and then copyedit the transcriptions myself. Still, I’d sorta like [...]
Read the rest of this entry »“Bank Robbery” Is Now Up At Amazon As A .99 Cent E-Book – Epub Also Available
The title pretty much says it all, but here are the links. Amazon: Epub Format for Sony Reader, iBooks, and Nook: Click here to download Bank Robbery. As always, these editions are DRM-free.
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Amazon.com: Fantasy & Science Fiction, Free Exclusive Digest: Kindle Store: Spilogale Inc. Fantasy & Science Fiction, Free Exclusive Digest [Kindle Edition] by Spilogale Inc. I’m not entirely clear on what the caveat “Digest” actually entails, but I’m going to sign up for this deal anyway. F&SF published the first story of mine to see print [...]
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I ran across an interesting story about how, as their brains age, people tend to lose the ability to “keep things in mind.” Drug Could Make Aging Brains More Youthful? As the brain gets older, the prefrontal cortex begins to decline quickly. This part of the brain is responsible for many high-order functions, including maintaining [...]
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