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I just released the most recent issue of my newsletter, The Secrets. This issue is titled Serendipity. In it I go through the thought processes that shaped my recent story Chance Corrigan and The Tick-tock King of the Nile. (It will be coming out some time this year from DAW—I’ll post on its availability when […]

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 […]

The most recent interview on Dragonpage Cover to Cover was with Samuel R. Delany. Michael Mennenga and I have a fantastic time talking to Chip. The conversation ranged from science fiction to pornography and literary criticism. It was one of the best interviews that I’ve been a party to in the three years I’ve been […]

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 […]

Timeshares is a brand new anthology edited by Jean Rabe and Martin H. Greenberg. It’s organized around a frame story by Kevin J. Anderson. The theme is simple: Timeshares is a company that allows customers to vacation anywhere in time! It goes on sale in March, so you should find it in stores by the […]

It has been suggested that the battle between publishers and Amazon over ebook pricing actually had two motives. The first was to prevent Amazon from establishing a “monopoly” over ebook sales. The second was to create a “sustainable price model.” I’ve suggested a third motive: greed. Monopoly: Amazon never had a monopoly, wasn’t going to […]

An excellent post by April Hamilton over at Publetariat.com got me looking at the actual numbers on the money paid to authors under the old system for the Kindle, and the new Agency Model. Under the old model, ebook royalties were still connected to the cover price of a physical book. Under the agency model, […]