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Book reports: Catch-22, As She Climbed Across the Table, and To Say Nothing...
I am aware that what I am about to say marks me as a buffoon of the highest ass-showing order, but I’m saying it anyway: I don’t like Catch-22. I have friends who list it as their most favorite novel....
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MidSouthCon 33 Wrap Up
Memphis reminds me a lot of my home town of Montgomery, AL. Both are relatively flat, have a river running through down town, and possess that big-small-town feel. Be kind to whomever you meet. You’ll...
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Buy “Dangerous Dan” at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center
The fine folks at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center have been exceedingly kind to me, and I’m proud to announce that they asked for a couple of copies of Dangerous Dan which are, as you can see in...
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JordanCon Wrap Up
Conventions are a lot of fun. I get to meet readers. I get to talk about my work. Best of all, I get to meet other writers and share jokes about typefaces that would cause any reasonable human’s heart...
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Wired Picking on “Absurd Self-Published E-Books”
There aren’t enough people who use editors. As a result, there are a lot of unedited wild texts out there. These stories roam the landscape like mutated household pets who have been fused...
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Who will win the internet?
There’s an interesting struggle currently between the users of the internet and the providers of it. The faceless populace wants to remain not only anonymous but empowered to say whatever it wants,...
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Hearts Racing Cover Art is Here
I’m pleased to announce that the world’s only cycling/CrossFit romance novel is not only complete, but has a cover art image. It was a challenging process. I’m lucky in that Cheryl, who handles cover...
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“Ten Thousand Gods” is coming
Though Hearts Racing just released two weeks ago, it’s been done for months now, as far as my work on it has been concerned. During that time I’ve been working on my next project, Ten Thousand Gods,...
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See me at Atlanta Streets Alive, hanging around the Road Wrench Truck!
I’m teaming up with my friend Chris Orosco the bicycle wizard and his mobile bike shop, the Road Wrench, at Atlanta Streets Alive Highland Avenue September 27th. If you’re not familiar with the Road...
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Let Us Not Go Gentle Into That Hash Tag
Of course I want people to take writing seriously. I want them to take it so seriously that they buy all my books and lift poorly-formed passages therefrom for ill-advised tattoos. But hashtags ain’t...
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I’ll sign and sell books at Decatur Book Fest
I will be signing books at the Atlanta Writer’s Club tent within the Decatur Book Fest on Saturday, Sept 5th, 11am. My usual signing policy will be in effect: I’ll sign any book, not just mine, and any...
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First Look: Ten Thousand Gods Cover Art by Bear Roberts
I met my buddy Bear Roberts back when I was a working musician, sloping around paint-peeling corridors with my too-wordy songs. Like a good friend would, Bear came to my shows and clapped. I’ll never...
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I will present a panel at DragonCon
Paneling at MidSouthCon, Photo: Sean Grigsby I will make the paneling with Peter David and Keith R.A DeCandido at DragonCon on Friday, Sept 4th at 5:30 PM. So much panel! Here’s a little more about the...
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On Writer’s Block
I had a terrible case of writer’s block once. I went to see a doctor. I explained what writer’s block is. I am a writer, I told him, but I cannot write. When I sit down at the computer, nothing comes...
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How to use Scrivener to Organize a Serial Novel
I envisioned Ten Thousand Gods, originally, as a single novel. But I know how much consumers love a series, as evidenced by the current spate of superhero movies, if not John Sandford’s oeuvre. I...
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My DragonCon and Decatur Book Fest Wrapup
I got Attending Professional entry into DragonCon by asking for a high five. In the grand pageant of DragonCon authors, artists, and celebrities, I’m . . . well, let’s say I’m still building my...
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Interbike Wrapup: Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Bikes
I would say that Vegas is a joke as soon as you land, but this year it began before I even departed ATL. I watched a TSA security officer place one of my bike pedals up to his eye as though he intended...
View ArticleSunday I will do things. Atlanta Explained & Streets Alive!
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYwVEwqTv2g More about Atlanta Explained: http://www.atlbanana.com/atlanta-explained/ More about Streets Alive: http://www.atlantastreetsalive.com/highland
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Lammergeier, Condor, Downforce, a 24 Hours of Lemons Race Report
I beheld the great Lammergeier at the roof of Africa, the mists swirling at his the tip of his ten foot wingspan like the revolving Earth. Yes, and I have trekked the great Andean peaks to the nest of...
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Contraflow 5 / DeepSouthCon 53 Wrapup: Getting Literary in the Big Easy
I’ve been to New Orleans. I have taken in Jackson Square’s beauty, gyrated to the loose horns on Frenchman Street, and sniffed at Borboun Street’s pee-barf-and-bleach bouquet. But until now, I had not...
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