Over the past two years I've released four Dan Shamble, Zombie PI novels, and also  seven standalone short cases that were published in various anthologies and magazines—and that's enough for a book! WordFire Press will be releasing WORKING STIFF, The Cases of Dan Shamble, Zombie PI, in a few months. But wait, there's more! (said in the voice of that guy on the TV commercials, telling you all about gadgets you never knew you HAD to have!)   Barry Hoffman at Gauntlet Press is also doing a special limited edition of WORKING STIFF. The Gauntlet Press hardcover edition of WORKING...
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The sixth annual Superstars Writing Seminar is coming up, only a month away. We've already got more signups than ever before, more speakers, more panel opportunities. Here are some of the new additions to make this even more awesome than previous years: •    We will have two tracks of programming in the afternoon. There were so many topics to cover, this allows us to add nine extra hours of talks, workshops, and panels. •   Individual one-on-one clinics: editors from two major publishing houses will meet directly with students to critique cover letters and pitches; art directors and publishers...
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Every year at Christmas, numerous (actually, that deserves to be capitalized—NUMEROUS) family members descend on Colorado, and my normal "introverted writer" self is required to be sociable. In order to charge up my sociable batteries, I try to get away for some solitude ahead of time. My Go-To Place is often the gorgeous, silent, and spectacular canyonlands country of southern Utah. I carved out five days to drive across the Colorado mountains, to Moab Utah, then south to the small town of Monticello--nearly empty this time of year, with few services, but a very inexpensive motel room, and right at...
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At the last Superstars Writing Seminar in Feb 2014 we had a crackpot idea—we put together an anthology of Purple Unicorn stories, ONE HORN TO RULE THEM ALL, with original cover art by James Artimus Owen, edited by Lisa Mangum, with stories by Todd J. McCaffrey, Jody Lynn Nye, Peter S. Beagle, and the very best entries by alumni from previous Superstars. WordFire Press published the book—and all profits went to fund a scholarship for one student to attend the next Superstars, February 5-7 2015 in Colorado Springs. We posted entry details and opened the scholarship to submissions in November,...
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