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Purgatory Station: The Omnibus

Purgatory Station: The Omnibus

I’ve just released Purgatory Station: The Omnibus for sale in my store. This collection has four of the stories: The Lazarus Murder, Least of My Brethren, According to Their Needs and Serpent on the Station and an essay titled The Origin of Purgatory Station. The essay, which hasn’t been available before, goes over the inspiration […]

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The Secrets Newsletter #111 and #112, a class and a reading.

Two issues of The Secrets went out to subscribers today. I’d completed 111 before the holiday, but it got lost in all that was going on. In it I discuss how writers can produce kick-butt dialogue. Issue 112 covers the tricky subject of editing: how to do it, what to look for, and how to […]

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The Eleventh Language

In one of those cool and unexpected events, I got a contract today. My foreign rights agent, Danny Baror, has sold A Secret Atlas and Cartomancy for translation in Romanian! This becomes my eleventh language (including English, which I only count once despite the fact that I write in American). I don’t know when the […]

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Interesting thing about stories….

I’ve been cross-posting my Trick Molloy stories over on MySpace, where some readers have graciously offered comments. One, concerning part three, was interesting. Anne said she was enjoying the story but could have done without the shot at Republicans. One of the things that teachers often mention is that every character is really an aspect […]

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Serial Fiction News

Serial Fiction News

Just a quick warning: If you’ve wanted to read the story Such a Nice Girl you’ll want to do it by Monday. I’ll be pulling all the posts of it and starting a new serial: Little Girl Lost. It’s the next story in the Trick Molloy series. One of Club Flesh’s dancers is missing. Her […]

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Thanks to everyone…

Thanks to everyone…

I released 21 Days to a Novel less than a month ago, and you’ve been buying up copies of it as if I was selling gold. I suppose, technically, I am. 21 Days to a Novel will help you put together all the material you need to start on that novel you’ve always wanted to […]

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Office Hours, The Secrets and more…

Office Hours, The Secrets and more…

Issue 104 of The Secrets went out today. I’d hoped to have it out sooner but just as I was ready to send it, power went out here and my local DSL provider was not working well with computers. It was very odd that none of the machines I had in the house could get […]

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