It’s my anniversary, of sorts.  Twenty-five years ago this month, my first novel was published, Resurrection, Inc., a paperback original from Signet Books.  Since then, I’ve had over 120 novels published, 23 million copies in print, but nothing could match the excitement of that first acceptance. While trying to get my fiction published, I paid the bills by working as a technical writer for a large research laboratory, spending my days editing scientific papers and safety manuals, ushering documents through the publication process.  Everybody knew I wanted to be a fiction writer, and I worked on my novels in the...
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We've been going to San Diego Comic Con for close to twenty years now, and it's always a whirlwind of sights and sounds, friends, celebrities, crowds, freebies, costumes, crowds, and more crowds. In short, a madhouse, but in a good way.  Since the San Diego Convention Center is filled with pros and fans, I called it a "sea of ProFanity."  And did I mention the crowds? I have a couple of graphic novels coming out, so it was good to do a little promotion, to sign books, meet fans, but most of the time I was on panels or in...
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I just opened the front door and found a package on the porch—at last my copies of the new WordFire Press reissue of my novel HOPSCOTCH. This is one of my favorite novels, out of print for many years, although WordFire made it available as an eBook last year.  Now, those of you who prefer bound and printed editions can get your own copies. And RUSH fans may be interested—much like my first novel RESURRECTION, INC, the story behind HOPSCOTCH also has a Rush connection, in that this was the first story Neil Peart and I started discussing as a...
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It’s a hot topic among authors, many of them scrambling to put up as many of their titles as possible as ebooks. Many established authors can see the tide changing and feel the urgency, and they are climbing the learning curve as fast as possible. For my generation of writers, those who started publishing books before the mid-1990s, we’re in the perfect eBook “sweet spot.” We have a lot of backlist titles, and we control the electronic rights for most or all of them. If you are a new author who sells your books to a traditional publisher, then this...
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