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Reading Recommendation: Maximum Ride, The Final Warning by James Patterson

March 26th 2008 at 5:52 am

There are reasons Patterson is such a phenomenally successful writer.  Among them is an ability to tap into our collective needs/angst as well as just managing pacing and hooks better than just about anyone else. Anyway, he hooked me through the latest edition of his Maximum Ride books.  If you haven’t met Max yet, well, [...]

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Reading Recommendations: Storm Chaser

January 9th 2008 at 8:29 pm

Storm Chaser, A Photographer’s Journey, by Jim Reed. This is part of a larger post from my global warming blog (link at left if you want to go see it). Storm Chaser is a series of beautifully presented professional photographs of storms, and might be worth buying just for the photos. But it’s real strength [...]

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A nice writing week

October 12th 2007 at 9:18 pm

Sometimes it’s the small things, which do all add up. I made my writing goal of 750 words a day (3 pages) every day this week I got an unexpected opportunity to play ultimate frisbee with some of the guys from work, and it was a brilliant fall day (yes, exercise is related to writing [...]

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Reading Recommendation: Al Gore’s “The Assault on Reason”

July 23rd 2007 at 7:48 pm

I just finished listening to this book on Audio CD on my iPod. There are a lot of messages in it, some delivered in a more balanced way than others. But the most important topic is one I often talk about when I give keynote speeches: the conversation about the future is one of the [...]

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In which I interview Kim Stanley Robinson

May 25th 2007 at 6:34 am

…and the article is now posted at Futurist.com. Interviewing is fun – I did quite a lot of it for a little while, and then got busy doing other stuff. I learned a little bit this time, too. I sat down at Norwescon with Ken Schole’s wife, Jen, and picked her brain a little. She’s [...]

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Cross-Post from my Global Warming Blog

March 10th 2007 at 4:46 pm

Every once in a while I want a post to get read. So forgive me if you have RSS to more than one of my blogs… I’m reading the next book in Kim Stanley Robinson’s series on climate change, SIXTY DAYS AND COUNTING. He’s really very, very good. This is a series of fiction books [...]

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Publications

Wings of Creation can now be pre-ordered in Mass Market paperback edition.

Westward Weird is now available — my first published ghost story

One of my favorite shorts, “My Grandfather’s River,” has been included in this beautiful new anthology named RIVER, edited by Alma Alexander and now available via Dark Quest Books.

December special.

Mayan December is now available for only .99 cents for Kindle and Nook.

Great price.  Limited time.

I have a new story in “Under the Vale,” a fabulous collection of stories set in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar.

I have a new story in “Under the Vale,” a fabulous collection of stories set in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar.

Year’s Best SF 28 Out!

My story, “My Father’s Singularity” is among many great stories in this anthology.  Available widely.

Recent interviews on the web

I had two really fun interviews come out recently.  They can be found at:

Heidi Ruby Miller’s Pick Six

MilSciFi interview relating to my story, “Cracking the Sky” in the No Man’s Land anthology

In an Iron Cage now available at Amazon

This is a fun Steampunk anthology from Dark Quest Books.  My story is set in the Yucatan Peninsula, between the two time-lines of Mayan December.  Drop by and pick one up!  This is the ebook version, a print version will be out soon as well.

“Cracking the Sky” will be out in May in the anthology “No Man’s Land.”

This story was inspired by a trip to the Army’s TRADOC Mad Scientist conference last year.  No Man’s Land is a military science fiction anthology written entirely by women.  NEWS:  It can now be pre-ordered at Amazon.com.

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