It’s been a rough couple of weeks. Even after my jinxed week, there’s been a huge confluence of stressful things in my life. Two weeks of Jury Duty, copyedits to Desert Spear, finishing Brayan’s Gold (my new young Arlen Messenger novelette), closing on my office studio so Cassie can finally get her own room, rush [...]
Word of the Day
Hey all, sorry I’ve been so quiet on the blog lately. In addition to 9 hours a day of jury duty all last week and this, I’ve been proofing 881 pages of Desert Spear copyedits, working on a new Arlen Messenger novellette, trying to close on my new office studio (which I will immediately need [...]
Jinxed
Apologies to my mom for all the cursing in this entry, but it’s been an interesting week.
Sunday was the Brooklyn Book Festival, which was pretty fun. The weather was perfect, and the festival drew a sizable crowd. There were kids activities and cool swag and semi-celebrities like that guy who played Vizzini and Grand Negus [...]
No Longer at This Number
I used to work in medical publishing. If I say so myself, I was pretty good at it. I made decent money, and got a merit-based promotion and raise every year without fail for 10 years. Even the year I got laid off because the company I was working for at the time was tanking, [...]
Casting Contest Winners
Apologies for taking a while on this one, but judging turned out to be harder than I anticipated. There were a lot of names I didn’t recognize on the casts, and I had to do some research so I could consider them all in fairness. Thankfully, in the age of IMDB, google images, and YouTube, [...]
Updates
Made a lot of updates to the site yesterday, particularly on the Creations and News pages. There are a few more yet to come, but the hardest ones are done, including posting all the black and white ward symbols, a new character avatar, a ton of fan art, and some new covers.
In other news, Pat’s [...]
Brooklyn Book Festival Appearance
Attention all Tri-Staters! I will be appearing at the Brooklyn Book Festival, Sunday September 13, at the Brooklyn Borough Hall. This is a free, one-day event celebrating books of all kinds with a number of esteemed literary guests.
New York ComicCon will have a booth at the event, and I will be appearing at their Sci [...]
Random Linkage
I haven’t had time for one of these link-heavy posts in a while, and a bunch of stuff has built up in my Firefox bookmarks. I’m going to try and be swift:
A couple of months ago I contributed to a piece on Suvudu by Shawn Speakman called The Healthy Writer. I don’t know why [...]
Not Simultaneous
So I have some good news and some bad news.
Actually, scratch that. I have some GREAT news which comes with a mildly unpleasant ripple effect that most of you will never notice.
For those of you who purchased the US hardback edition of The Warded Man (Left), you’re in luck, because it’s about to become a [...]