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Be Immortalized in Print!

Be Immortalized in Print!

On Thursday evening, at 6 PM Pacific time, we’ll be having the first of our American Cancer Sociey Relay For Life auctions in Second Life. We have a number of really cool and unique items up for sale: 1) Autographed books by Robert E. Vardeman and me. 2) A number of one-of-a-kind and truly rare […]

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Reading Reminder: Tonight, in Second Life

Reading Reminder: Tonight, in Second Life

As I mentioned earlier in the week, tonight, 6 PM Pacific time, I’ll be doing a reading of my new story, Chance Corrigan and the Tick-tock King of the Nile in Second Life. Second Life, as I’ve mentioned before, is free, graphically-based chat software which supports voice-chat. I’ve been using it for over two years […]

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A New Look, Readings and RFL

A New Look, Readings and RFL

I mentioned last week that I had some pictures taken by Heather Hill, and right over there is the first of them. When I first started in the business, the only authors who needed pictures were the ones with big hardback books. Now everyone seems to want them. I guess it’s a mark of how […]

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Stress and Frustration

Stress and Frustration

It has been one of those weeks. For reasons I cannot share publicly, I’ve been decidedly stressed. Nope, nothing to do with health or writing, save that part of the frustration is that I’ve not been able to get as much writing done as I wanted this week. Certain events and forces beyond my control […]

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One more story down

One more story down

This ended up being a good week. Today I finished up the first draft of Chance Corrigan and the Tick-tock King of the Nile. The story is destined, I hope, to be included in the forthcoming anthology from DAW called Steampunk. Jean Rabe is editing it with Martin H. Greenberg. The story was a lot […]

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Reading Redux: At The Queen’s Command

Reading Redux: At The Queen’s Command

Just over a week ago I did a reading of the first three chapters of At The Queen’s Command, my new fantasy novel, in Second Life. I’ve been asked to do another reading for those who couldn’t make it. I agreed, and will do the reading tonight, 11 February, at 9 Eastern/6 Pacific time. The […]

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An Online Reading of At The Queen’s Command

Tomorrow, Saturday, January 30th, at 6 Eastern/3 Pacific, I’ll be reading the first three chapters from my new book At The Queen’s Command. This is your chance to get a preview of this new novel. The reading will be conducted via Second Life. Second Life is a graphics based chat software suite that includes VOIP. […]

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