Which means I’m out of excuses not to work. Rats. Dani and I have been together for 7 years now, and married for three, but our families remain unintegrated. This means two of every major holiday, including Christmas, and an endless tug-of-war over who gets the ACTUAL holiday, and who we have to spend the […]
Subway Writing
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 It’s a little outdated now, but it was the shiz-nit when I bought it a couple years ago.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 […]
My New Life
The last couple of weeks have been interesting, as I try to adjust to the complete change in lifestyle that has come with quitting my job to write full time. My last “official” day was Oct. 31, and then I packed up and went to the World Fantasy Convention in Saratoga Springs for four days. Then I […]
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 […]
Free Agent
So I did it. On Thursday, I signed my contracts with Voyager, the Fantasy imprint of Harper Collins UK, which, in conjucntion with the contracts I signed a couple months ago with Del Rey (Random House) and Hayakawa in Japan, and two weeks ago with Bragelonne in France, ensures that I will have enough guaranteed […]