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For your reading pleasure, here is Chapter Three of the Digital Original novel, In Hero Years… I’m Dead. Chapter Three Her lips curled into a snarl. “You’re a bastard.” “Not me.” I pulled my bandana down. Blood. Great. “My parents were married.” Fury flashed through her green eyes. So like her mother. She went to […]

Back in 2007, if you were visiting this blog, you saw me talk a bit about a novel I was writing on spec. On spec is a writer’s way of saying he’s working without a contract, which is kind of like a high-wire act working without a net. The novel was In Hero Years…I’m Dead. […]

November is almost here and I have a novel to write. Of Limited Loyalty is the second book in the Crown Colonies series. It picks up roughly three years after At the Queen’s Command. As I did last year, I’ll be putting a lot of words on the project during November. I’ll also be blogging […]

(For your reading pleasure, the second chapter of At The Queen’s Command) Chapter Two April 27, 1763 Temperance Bay, Mystria Owen Strake disembarked from the Coronet once the longboats had pulled it to the dock. His papers had been sent ahead with the Harbormaster, bound for Her Majesty’s Military headquarters. The Prince’s Life Guards had […]

I knew it would happen. It had to happen. There is money to be made and whenever there is money to be made, people will rise up to make it. I don’t, in this instance, refer to hardworking authors, but the parasites who are looking to make a fast buck by making low-rent investments in […]

A number of people pointed me to the New York Times article in which Amazon reports that Kindle sales of titles have outstripped hardcover sales. Many folks have jumped on this report as the canary in the coal mine. It’s the death knell of publishing as we know it. It’s the vindication of a lot […]

A WIRED story coming out of Book Expo America once again reveals the gap between reality and what some of the leaders in publishing think. Susan Petersen Kennedy, president of Penguin Group USA, said publishers will not make the same mistakes as the music industry, which had an epic struggle over electronic distribution and piracy […]