This has been years in the making.  My friend Steven L. Sears (co-exec producer of XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS, co-producer of SWAMP THING, SHEENA, etc.) and I came up with this concept about a decade ago, "human POWs in an alien concentration camp" with our main character, a human prisoner who refuses to reveal his past and who doesn't want to be rescued because salvation could be worse than rescue. A man called only "Joe Human." WATCH THIS—an incredible teaser trailer for STALAG-X. Gestalt Comics just released Issue #1 (of 6) of STALAG-X, scripted by me and Steven L. Sears, with...
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Yes, it's the dragon business—three medieval con-men working their way from kingdom to kingdom, spreading rumors, planting fake dragon footprints, convincing the gullible people that a monster is terrorizing the land...and then selling their services as professional dragonslayers.  But each con doesn't always turn out as expected. That's the premise of a new novel I started writing last week, a humorous fantasy that fans of Dan Shamble, Zombie PI should enjoy, as well as fans of Douglas Adams and Robert Lynn Asprin. And you won't have long to wait, either. I deliver the final manuscript on July 1, and THE DRAGON...
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After coming home from Comicpalooza in Houston, I started writing a new novel last week, THE DRAGON BUSINESS (more details in a forthcoming blog), managed to get the prologue and three chapters written—then it was back to packing up numerous boxes of books, suitcases, posters, promo cards, loaded the car, and then Rebecca and I drove off to Denver for our first Denver Comic Con. Wow!  The last time I was in the Denver Convention Center was for the World SF Convention in 2008 (about 5000 attendees), so Denver Comic Con was a pleasant, and overwhelming, surprise with about 60,000...
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In the early 1990s when I was launching my career as a novelist, I began work on an Apple //e, then graduated to a Mac. For my first four novels, I had computer text files (ASCII) of my manuscripts...but I was distressed that my publishers could not accept them. They didn't have the facility.  Instead, my first four novels were *rekeyed by hand* from the printed manuscripts (which introduced a whole host of new typos, no matter how clean MY manuscript was in the first place). Later, in 1993, my assistant editor from Bantam came out to stay with us...
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