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Hello, World

For you WordPress bloggers out there, this pic will look somewhat familiar. Yours may have more colors in more countries, but this is mine so far, and I’m justifiably proud and excited about it. For...

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Pimping it Forward

So, if you’ve looked around, you may have noticed my link to John Scalzi’s blog, The Whatever. Now, agree with him politically or no, you have to give him credit for his accomplishments as a SF author...

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Plug Your Book on The Improbable Author!

Well, my previous post unfortunately dropped into the internets without much of a splash and barely a ripple.  That’s what I get for announcing a new feature on Labor Day weekend while WorldCon was...

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New Art from “A Sword Into Darkness”

“Faceoff” Been playing around with Cinema 4D.  From the climactic scene of my soon-to-be-launched novel, A Sword Into Darkness.  Here, the ships of CRUDESGRU One face off against the alien Control Ship...

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Look-y, Look-y At What I Gots . . . .

  My lovely and altogether more photogenic wife Jen models the latest in literary attire, three proofs / Advance Reader Copies of A Sword Into Darkness.  I’m very, very happy with the proofs, though...

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New Submissions

So, took a break from the continuous quest that is ASID. Remember “Bumped” and “ILYAMY”?  Those suckers are out there now, in the wild and woolly marketplace.  I went for the gold this time.  Looked at...

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Reject-a-mundo!

Clarkesworld:  A very tough — but VERY QUICK — nut to crack. So, they did not avail themselves of “ILYAMY” after a mere three days, but that’s okay.  I’ll try that one again later with a different...

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Lost in Translation?

That probably could have gone better. As you may have gleaned from a prior post, I’m starting the networking and marketing and politicking I’m told will be needed for me to ever reach out beyond a...

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Ooooh, My God . . . .

After posting the umpteenth tiny tweak to my cover on Createspace for the upcoming / potential Stealth Books edition of A Sword Into Darkness (assuming Baen does not buy it), I checked in at Lousy Book...

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Achievement Unlocked: One Kiloview!

This may be a pitiful milestone for the big/medium bloggers out there, but it’s a cool one for me. Just tipped over 1000 views today! Actually it was last night, but I was in an Echomancer writing...

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Please Forgive Our Dust

I’ve gone ahead and taken down the pages with the first three chapters of A Sword Into Darkness.  One, is to make edits I’ve been contemplating for a while and I don’t want people to get the wrong...

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A-F-K

Hey, remember that fascinating blog by that fella who called himself the Improbable Author? Yeah?  Well, turns out that today I remembered it too. Sorry for the subscribers and the occasional visitors...

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Fisking the NYT: It isn't just me. My whole religion can't be *real* writers!

Reblogged from Monster Hunter Nation: Several people sent me this article on Facebook yesterday. I supposed I kept getting tagged because everybody knows I’m Mormon and my writing has such a “sunny...

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One Door Closes . . . .

So, in news that may or may not be surprising to you, I finally received an answer from Baen Books about A Sword Into Darkness. And that answer was “No.” After a number of e-mails back and forth with...

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Judge, he suffers from Ghettoapathy

Reblogged from TheReporterandTheGirlMINUSTheSuperMan!: You may have heard this week, on this blog and many others, a controversial ruling from North Texas, regarding 16 year old Ethan Couch. The teen...

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“A” is for Anxiety, “B” is for Bitterness, “C” is for . . . .

Cancer. As Tweeters, Facebookers, Tumbl’rers, bloggers, and writers the internet over tackle the challenge of summing up 2013 and looking forward to 2014, my post turns out to be a hell of a lot...

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Open Letter to Indie Authors

Reblogged from J.M. Gregoire: 1/6/2014 - AN UPDATE ON THE UPDATE – I have been approving 100% of the comments left on this post.  I haven’t hidden a single thing.  I have received exactly FOUR pieces...

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Launch Copy Poll!!!!

We are now T – (something imminent, gimme a break — I do this in my spare time between working, caring for kids, wife, home, sleeping, etc) for the Stealth Books launch of A Sword Into Darkness, and I...

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Would Anyone Like A Brown Sweater?

This is not a political or issue-oriented blog in the least, but sometimes you see something so ridiculous that it requires good rant. First, familiarize yourself with the following: Vaginal Knitting...

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Save The Date! Launching in 5, 4, 3, 2 . . . .

Friday, January 31, 2014 It’s the end of the month, pay-day for most, and long past the point where your New Year’s resolutions have fallen by the wayside.  It’s cold outside, you’ve burned through...

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