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(For your reading pleasure, the first chapter of At The Queen’s Command) Chapter One April 27, 1763 Coronet Temperance Bay, Mystria Captain Owen Strake stood on the Coronet’s wheeldeck, smiling as the ship came around the headland. The wind remained steady, but in the harbor the sea lost its chop. The rising sun painted blue […]

I always get a huge thrill out of holding a copy of a book of mine which has been translated into another language. The Grand Crusade is a September release in France through Milady. Marc Simonetti again provided a gorgeous cover, and Sebastien Baert did the translation. Translating me not a task I’d envy anyone. […]

Have to love the Internet. I open up a web-browser, head to a social networking sight, and got to see the cover for At The Queen’s Command making its way through those interwebtubethingies. This cover is great. I just love it to death. It’s a gorgeous cover and it has that, “Say what?” factor going […]

In talking about digital books with folks I’ve discovered there’s a need for a new metric by which to judge books. With print books we can easily categorize them as “slim” or “normal” or “doorstop.” (Or, in the case of The Wheel of Time series or the Harry Potter books, a “barricade” of books.) Everyone […]

Monday and Tuesday (July 26-27) Aaron Allston and I will be at Dragon’s Lair Comics and Fantasy in Austin, TX to hold two days of writing seminars. Dragon’s Lair has posted the full schedule of events for your edification. We’re putting on ten hours of seminars, including my 21 Days to a Novel and Aaron’s […]

In surfing around the Internet I chanced across the latest viral craze site: I Write Like…. It’s a site where you supply a sample of your writing, and the site reveals which famous author you write like. It’s a fun idea and I was kind of wondering if I’d get tagged as writing as myself. […]

The Adventure of The Ghost Watch ©2010 Michael A Stackpole Jack Card sat in a big leather chair in the corner of the Wanderers’ Club quiet room. He did his best not to fidget. That would get him noticed, and in the room full of adults—especially these people—that was the last thing he wanted. Rogers, […]