So. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last week, you’ve probably caught wind of the kerfluffle between Amazon.com and Macmillan books. I first discovered that Amazon had delisted all the Macmillan authors when I went online to buy Old Man’s War by John Scalzi and was baffled as to why this [...]
Facebook Frenemies
They say you should never friend your boss on facebook. Or give them your blog URL. Apparently the same rule applies for authors and their editors. If you can get past Blake Charlton’s ranting about his swine flu-contaminated roommate, NYT Bestselling Author Brent Weeks and his editor Devi will illustrate this clearly:
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Toronto Update
Check out Matt’s Blog about our Toronto trip. It is WAY better than mine was.
Always Trendy
I know it’s been a while since I’ve updated, but in my quest to always be trendy and hip to the latest fads, I caught a nice case of H1N1 about 2 weeks ago, and spent about 7 days being totally useless, and another 5 feeling generally cruddy. This was followed by some massive computer [...]
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 [...]
Perils of Autotranslate
Continuing my ongoing coverage of events in Deutschland, I’d like to announce that the German website Booksection.de has just posted their translation of an interview I sent them last week.
In my last post I included links to google translate versions of all the other German posts out there about me. Of course, I did this [...]
Suvudu Chat
As I mentioned last week, I will be doing a live chat on the Del Rey mega-blog Suvudu.com tomorrow, Thursday June 4, at 2PM EST with (Red Wolf Conspiracy) author Robert Redick, moderated by Robert’s editor, Kaitlin Heller (details here). You can send in questions for Robert or myself in advance by e-mailing info@suvudu.com (and [...]
Boy Genius
Another interview, this one for the mobile tech mega-blog Boy Genius Report. The interview is more tech heavy than the usual fare, describing in detail my experiences writing with mobile devices. It was a nice reflection on how far mobile tech has come as a writing aid in the last 6 years or so.
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Tech Geek
First things first. This morning, my 9 month old daughter Cassandra waved to me and said “Hi, Daddy,” her first unmistakable confirmed words in the presence of two witnesses. So far as I’m concerned, that’s way more important than any of the other stuff I’ve been blogging about lately.
That said, there have been some other [...]
Mobile Me
It’s been quite a week. Seriously. Like a year’s worth of stuff happened in the last 7 days.
I had been planning for last week to be a quiet one where I could get a lot of writing done, but due to an almost slapstick convergence of events, I was forced to put it off again [...]