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Free Stuff: More Dinosaurs, More Lords!

So this morning at 4:48 AM The Editor sent me another chapter of editorial notes.

In honor of the fact that this thing is finally becoming really real (really!) I’ve decided to post Chapter 03 of the submitted (what I call beta) version of The Dinosaur Lords. In which we wrap up the min-arc begun in [...]

High on a new thing

So it’s been a bit of a rough ride. Sorry to’ve slipped out of touch.

High. On, yes, a new thing.

The little health embarrassment – that minor unable to breathe thing, you know – has cleared up muchly thanks to, well, drugs. Plus clean living, I suppose, but its not as if that’s all [...]

In which I launch my career as a Cheese Magneteer!

During the run-up to Bubonicon (which was swell, by the way – there, that’s my con report) Scott Phillips asked me to join him, Scott Denning, and John Jos. Miller on a panel late Friday night about the blog they all write for called Cheese Magnet.

Pictured: foreshadowing!

Created by a shadowy figure of mystery known [...]

My Bubonicon schedule!

Come see me at Bubonicon and I won’t do this*:

Could happen!

Or maybe I totally will. Depends on what’ll get me the biggest audience reaction. Because that’s just how I roll.

To find out which I do, click this handy link to check out my con schedule.

Of course having done so (does anybody else hate screwing [...]

Bubonicon warning!

Board up the kids and pets and hide the windows, because it’s coming!

Bubonicon 43, that is. August 26–28, 2011, at the Sheraton Albuquerque Airport Hotel.

And, of course, I will be there. You can’t have Bubonicon without me!

Well, yes. You totally can. But it wouldn’t be the same without me. Certainly not for me.

But Co-Chaircritters Craig [...]

Crappy Writing Advice Theatre: Write What You Know

Since I am in a … curmudgeonly mood today, what with this thing and that other thing, I’ll just go ahead and whack on a chunk of Accepted Wisdom from when I was a tad.

“Write what you know.”

Do they still tell you that? (“They” being those nebulous Authorities, who always somehow know your business better [...]

Now comes the scary part

Contracts for my epic fantasy novel THE DINOSAUR LORDS have arrived from Tor. Now I have the read them!

The Dinosaur Show hits the road

Tonight, August 5th 2011, I’ll be telling the Albuquerque Science Fiction Society all about my epic fantasy novel THE DINOSAUR LORDS, coming from Tor in early 2013, and the ensuing trilogy.

The News

Listen up, my beloved friends and readers!

I have just accepted an offer from Tor Books to buy a little thing I like to call The Ballad of Karyl’s Last Quest: A Romance in Three Volumes.

And you know what that means.

You’re more used to seeing me refer to it by the title of Volume the [...]

Done ... and done.

In which I finish an epic fantasy-novel draft in epif fashion, and contemplate a glorious future.