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Writing in a Comfortable Place

In general, writing is pushing an edge for me – a new technology, a new type of character, an attempt at a new voice.  But sometimes it’s more like a hot cocoa by the fire.  I spent years grabbing the newest Mercedes Lackey books from the shelf as soon as they came out.  When I [...]

Shiny New Wings of Creation Hardbacks

A box of books arrived for me last night.  I threw it in the back of my car, thinking it held copies of Reading the Wind (which I am also expecting, but which I’ve seen), and it turned out to be the Wings of Creation hardbacks.  The book design is very beautiful; the cover and the [...]

Authors and Covers

We have no say. Here is a copy of the cover for an anthology I have a story in.  It’s coming out on the 6th – which is next Tuesday.  It’s either so bad that it’s good or it’s really, really bad.  I can see it on shelves right before Halloween, though. It’s being considered [...]

Reading the Wind available in paperback

I’m pleased to announce that Reading the Wind is out in paperback.  In honor of its release, I posted a new story on the Academy of New World Historians website. The new story happens offstage to the action in the book, and is the first part of the overall story that has been narrated by [...]

The Academy of New World Historians is Born

Writers have the best job in the world.  We make stuff up.  We daydream and what we daydream becomes real – as a book or a story or a poem. People read our daydreams, our musings, the things that grow out of our subconscious. I really did it this time. It all started with the [...]

In which the SF Signal Mind Meld includes me on Smart SF Movies

And I get to learn a lot from the things others have to offer.  I have a career in tech, an avocation as a writer, a calling as a futurist, and a family.  So I had to pull some smart sf out of my memory banks from a time in my life when I had [...]

Into a new breach: My work on an iphone app

Steampunk Tales #2 is out, and contains a story by me, and a lot of stories by other writers, too.  For $1.99, it’s a good deal.  As far as I know, “Speaker for the Mayans” is the first story of mine that’s been available in the iphone apps store. Better yet, it’s set in one [...]

In which I become a publisher

People ask me regularly if I have books available on the Kindle.  It’s possible that happens more to me than to other authors, since I live and work in Amazon’s home town and my friends are tech geeks.   I’m pretty sure that my novels will find their way there eventually through my publisher, Tor Books, [...]

Someone reading my work to me

At this stage of my writing career, I’ve gone through a number of the fabulous firsts.  I’ve sold my first story, and my first novel, had my first awful review and my first stellar one.  I’ve won my first award, and I’ve taught writing for the first time.  These are things I’ll remember.  Well, today [...]

Announcing a New Column at Futurismic

I’m excited to announce that I’ll be doing a new column at Futurismic. The introduction to the column can be found here.  I’m really pleased to be associated with the site – it’s one of the better science and science fiction sites out there right now.   Futurismic comes in three pieces:  blog, columns, and stories.  [...]

Publications

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.

Mayan December now available at Amazon

What do an ancient shaman, a modern-day scientist, a computer nerd in dreadlocks, and an eleven-year-old girl have in common? Join these adventurers as they traverse the Yucatan peninsula – and time itself – in a search for the meaning of life.  Oh, and for jaguars.
Mayan December is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com.

“The Hebras and the Demons and the Damned” picked for Year’s Best SF #16.

This is an adventure story set on Fremont, the colony planet that serves as the setting for The Silver Ship and the Sea. I loved writing this story, and I’m really happy that the Hartwell’s liked it for this anthology.

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