It's been a fun two days, from loud music and crowds to utter silence and mountain beauty—and I loved both. On Tuesday, thanks to the efforts of our friends David Boop and Peter J. Wacks, we got tickets and backstage passes to see the Dandy Warhols in the legendary Bluebird Theater on Colfax Ave in Denver.  The Dandy Warhols had been on the edge of my musical radar, but we were happy to see the concert; I spent the afternoon listening to a lot of their YouTube tracks, getting familiar with the music. As a point of connection, Peter and...
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Over the past twenty years, Rebecca Moesta and I have given our workshop  "Things I Wish Some Pro Had Told Me When I Was Starting out" to thousands of writing students. In preparation for Nanowrimo next month, and also for the upcoming Superstars Writing Seminar in February, we put all that knowledge down on paper, including a lot of new sections that we never have time to cover in person.  This book won't teach you how to write—it will teach you how to be a professional writer. The print version will be released next week. Available now in all eBook...
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On September 14, Rebecca and I celebrated 23 years of marriage.   In 1991, in the back yard of our house in Livermore, CA, we had a wedding ceremony surrounded by friends, with "Best People" Doug Beason and Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Rather than picking one thing to do to celebrate our anniversary, Rebecca and I have instituted "anniversar-week." We each put down things on an anniversary bucket list, places we wanted to see, favorite restaurants, fun activities, movies to watch. Small but fun things that we do together. And then we spend the week doing as many of them as...
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When I do appearances and travel, sometimes I'm just a guest author. Sometimes I fit right in.  The Rushcon folks are definitely my people. I was invited to be a guest at Rushcon 14 in Toronto, August 22-24, so I could talk about CLOCKWORK ANGELS the novel and the new comic series being released by BOOM! Studios. It's always good to have any excuse to go up to Toronto, and I gladly accepted the invitation. I flew out a day early to spend time with Mark Leslie LeFebvre from Kobo Writing Life, since my WordFire Press does so much direct...
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