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Monday, February 25th, 2008
I found these in Night Shade's triple-top-security storage facility.
It's taken a long time to get to this point. I'm carrying a couple copies around in my bags right now, and I have to keep resisting the urge to take them out and pet them.
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
I recently did an interview with Marshall Payne over at The Fix. We chat about PUMP SIX, environmentalism, coal, and the joys of sharing, among other things.
Daniel Ausema has also done an extensive review of the collection. There are a couple small spoilers, especially about "Pop Squad" so if ...
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Monday, February 25th, 2008
I love traveling. Living in a tiny rural town, I'm normally cut off from the pulse of America. But every so often, I poke my head up, go visit strange urban lands, and roam through busy airports and come across gems like the following:
Now, if you read this while you're ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
There comes a time when every author needs to admit that they need help. I have reached that moment.
Over the last couple weeks, I've been working on a mini-site for PUMP SIX, putting up links to reviews, the cover info, and most importantly, I'm also putting up some sample stories ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
The gentleman of Night Shade have informed me that PUMP SIX AND OTHER STORIES printed last week and shipped to distributors. Which means that pesky message over at Amazon will soon be saying, "Your order will be shipping damn fast. Would you like fries with that?" instead of the rather ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
I've been thinking lately about reader trust. Broadly, as a writer, you have an obligation to hook a reader in your opening paragraphs and give them faith that you can deliver a good story. Seems obvious. But recently I've been thinking there are mitigating aspects to this.
While I was at ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
The other day, my 4-year-old son asked me, "Dad, are you done with your book yet?"
"No."
He looked disappointed.
At first, I thought Anjula put him up to it, but apparently he's just been listening to me bitch for so long that he's picked up on the project. Now he ...
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
So, it turns out that it's pretty easy to cut... if you've got a chainsaw.
I'm knee-deep in gore and pretties.
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
I wrote a novelette last week. The interesting thing about it was that I literally had no idea what I was doing.
It was originally intended to be a sort of light-hearted romp -- with a point, mind you, but a romp, nonetheless. But one of the things that I've learned ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
I just got the final cover for Pump Six and Other Stories from the gentlemen at Nightshade:
And here's a link to the entire jacket:
I'm really excited to see the collection taking its final form. It's starting to feel real to me. Now when someone asks what I write, ...
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