I wrote The Painted Man, the first book in my soon-to-be-published fantasy series, on my phone. I have an HP Ipaq 6515 Pocket PC, which runs Windows Mobile 3.1. It’s a little outdated now, but it was the shiz-nit when I bought it a couple years ago. I used to read a lot on the […]
Post-Manuscript Depression
Well, it’s done. At some ungodly hour last night, I sent out the final draft of The Painted Man to my publisher. There will still be line edits and copy edits and queries and printer proofs and Crom only knows what else before it goes to press, so there will likely be plenty of chances […]
Six Word Stories
The ever-lovely Dani sent me this Wired article on Six Word Stories yesterday. I thought it was neat. The following excerpt gives the gist: Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words (“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”) and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and […]
There, but for Grace…
So as I mentioned, the publisher wants to change the name of my book. I really like the title The Painted Man. Honestly, I think it is the best title for the story I have written. But the publisher’s point, which I will concede, if not like, is that the title is a marketing tool […]
This Book is Going to be Five Million Pages
Fucking Jardir.I’m hard at work on the sequel to The Painted Man (soon to be named something else), and it keeps growing. Even as the first book sells all over the Western world, there is universal agreement on one thing: It is a fucking brick. 565 double-spaced pages in MS Word.Your average novel by a […]