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A very cool way for indie authors to co-op. Check out this bundle of eight SF novels by me, Frank Herbert, Gregory Benford, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, David Farland, Mike Resnick, Mike Stackpole, and B.V. Larson. Abailable at StoryBundle.com.  Here’s the press release: Science fiction can take you from one side of the universe to the […]

It must be Awards Season. At the recent Campbell Conference in Lawrence Kansas, TAU CETI (which consists of a novella by me and a sequel novelette by my Writers of the Future student and long-time friend, Steven Savile) received the inaugural “Lifeboat to the Stars Award,” given “for the best work of science fiction of […]

I get a lot of people asking about how I write and hike at the same time.  I’ve posted my main essay on the subject, “Talking to Myself,” here on the blog, but if you’d like to read it again, you can click here. This morning, the newsletter from Olympus Recorders also ran an interview/article […]

Not bad to start the week with some good news.  This morning I learned that the first Dan Shamble, Zombie PI novel, DEATH WARMED OVER, has been nominated for the Shamus Award, given by the Private Eye Writers of America in the category of Best Paperback PI Novel.  I was excited enough to wake the […]