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It was perfect timing at Salt Lake Comic Con in September when I stepped on a hotel elevator with James Duckett, another writer I’d met a couple of times before. He looked at me, got a contemplative look on his face, and said, “I won’t know unless I ask.”  He told me about a writers’ […]

If you’re one of the millions of writers participating in National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo, or just a writer interested in improving your craft, you might be interested in two writing books just released in print and eBook by WordFire Press. I have given many workshops on Worldbuilding at conventions and conferences. I’ve built gigantic […]

Josh Vogt is a talented up-and-coming author, my former executive manager, and now an editor at Paizo Publishing. Here’s his take on monsters The Monsters Bundle is available from StoryBundle.com, and includes up to a dozen monster stories for any price you want to pay (minimum $5). We all have different fears. Heights. Spiders. Clowns. Puppets. (So, in […]

The CLOCKWORK LIVES novel is a beautiful example of the bookmaking craft from ECW Press, a work of art with red leatherette stamped cover, endpapers, color printing, line illustrations. The unabridged audiobook is just out—and I think that’s pretty special, too. CLOCKWORK LIVES is like a steampunk Canterbury Tales, the journey of Marinda Peake across […]