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The publishing world is changing (I know that’s a not much of a headline—everyone with open eyes and a modicum of sanity recognizes it). Anyone who approaches a career in writing as a get-rich-quick scheme is living more fiction than even the most preposterous novel. Now, writers have to be in this for the long […]

WordFire Press is pleased to release the novel based on the forthcoming major fantasy film, THE CROWN AND THE DRAGON. The novel was written by one of our writing students and Superstars alumni John D. Payne.  For fans of high fantasy and epic fantasy—the start of the Paladin Cycle. The land of Deira burns. Two […]

It’s my 25th anniversary!  A quarter century ago my very first novel, RESURRECTION, INC., was published in paperback by Signet Books.  It was just a mass-market original, got nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, garnered good critical acclaim, but went out of print before long. Then Overlook Connection Press published a hardcover 10th Anniversary Edition […]

As a great cap for the summer season, Tim and I drove down to the mining town of Silverton deep in the San Juan Mountains to do two more segments on the Colorado Trail, 20 miles and 11 miles, two days in a row. It was spectacular. We arrived in the rain and fog, and […]