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Where do you get your ideas?

That question, “Where do you get your ideas?” is the bane of every author. Now, admittedly, the stuff we do can be odd, but that’s part of the fun of the job. We get to take multiple ideas and jam them together into something new. If we do it well, readers are baffled and entertained. […]

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More Fiction for sale

More Fiction for sale

In my continuing commitment to make fiction available online, I’ve added two more stories to the store. Least of My Brethren is a story set in my Purgatory Station universe. I also think it is simply one of the best stories I’ve ever written. I produced it for an anthology titled Sol’s Children edited by […]

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More E-books for the iPhone/iPod Touch

More E-books for the iPhone/iPod Touch

We’ve added another title to the iReady line of books available for your iPhone or iPod Touch: Kid Binary and the Two-Bit Gang is now ready to be loaded onto your iPod Touch or iPhone. It’s a fun story about law and order, or the lack thereof, in the realms of virtual reality. The story […]

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The Secrets: Serial Fiction

The Secrets: Serial Fiction

I am very pleased to announce the release of The Secrets: Serial Fiction. This is a guide to developing and writing the sort of serial fiction that has been a staple of genres and entertainment since storytelling began. It’s my firm conviction that the shift of publishing from paper books to electronic books will favor […]

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Office Hours in Second Life

Thursday evening, March 27th, I’ll be at Wordsmith Hall from 6-7 pm game time, which is 9-10 pm Eastern time. I’ll be hanging out, and will be happy to answer questions about my work, about writing or gaming or pretty much anything else—including the Asteroid and the premiere, tomorrow, of Fiction Fortress! We had a […]

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Kid Binary and the Two-Bit Gang

I am pleased to offer for sale Kid Binary and the Two-Bit Gang. This is a story I wrote over ten years go, based on my experiences with online gaming, chatting and a one-page article about a chat software called Palace. The article appeared in Entertainment Weekly and talked about a program where people created […]

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E-books for the iPod Touch/iPhone

Last Friday I picked up some software by Michael Zapp of Zapptek called iPresentIt. It’s this great piece of software that allows you to turn a PowerPoint or similar presentation into something which you can put on any video iPod (not the Nano) that supports video out. Instead of having to bring a laptop to […]

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