For those of you embarking on the National Novel Writing Month project, NaNoWriMo, you'll start out with enthusiasm and excitement...hopefully enough to carry you through thirty days and the end of your opus. Okay, I'm a prolific author. Over the next few days, I'll be re-posting some of the tips I've compiled over the years.  If you find yourself flagging, or looking for new ways to increase your productivity, I hope some of these help. PRODUCTIVITY TIP #1:  SHUT UP AND WRITE! A writer’s Muse is supposed to be a delicate, ethereal woman with a gentle voice who drops hints and...
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I'm participating in a great new story bundle, a collection of Halloween-appropriate novels by some great writers—and you name your own price.  It's a really interesting idea, and it lets you support independent authors. You can contribute whatever you like and get six horror/dark-fantasy novels: RIVERWATCH—Joe Nassise TAKING ON THE DEAD—Annie Walls A LATENT DARK—Martin Kee THE DROUGHT—Patricia Fulton BLAZE OF GLORY—Weston Ochse VICARIOUS—Jon F. Merz If you contribute at $9 or more (or $1.13 for each novel) you receive two bonus books COMING OF AGE—Douglass Clegg RESURRECTION, INC.—Kevin J. Anderson Check out the details at StoryBundle.com and have plenty...
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Five new short novels by five masters of military SF for five bucks. Now that's a sweet deal. FIVE BY FIVE is a new collection of all-original military SF by Kevin J. Anderson, Aaron Allston, Michael A. Stackpole, B.V. Larson, and Loren L. Coleman. It’s a war out there. In these pulse-pounding tales, the best (or worst) soldiers in the galaxy are pitted against powerful aliens on distant battlefields. Never before published stories about monsters, deadly combat tech, treachery, and honor: Big Plush by Aaron Allston—The Dollgangers, artificial people made in mankind's image, take up arms in a desperate bid...
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Last weekend I was up on Toronto as a guest speaker for RushCon 2012, a gathering of several hundred Rush fans at the Hard Rock Cafe—all in celebration of their favorite band and the concert Sunday night at the Air Canada Center. I flew in Saturday evening, was picked up at the airport by my publicist Sarah from ECW Press (publishers of Clockwork Angels: The Novel), then drove me to my hotel just in time for me to arrive at the tail end of a fire alarm evacuation.  It turned out to be only a sprinkler mishap but the lobby...
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