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Pardon Our Dust

Pardon Our Dust

Over the next three weeks or so we’re going to be doing some software upgrades to both the blog and the store. We want to make the store easier to use and more secure; and make the website easier to use from mobile devices like my iPad. This means updating software and teaching an old […]

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Writing Workshops at DragonCon

This year is the first year that Aaron Allston and I will be teaching writing at DragonCon in Atlanta, over the Labor Day weekend. Aaron and I have put together 12 hours of writing workshops. You can buy a pass for the whole of them, or pick them up ala carte during the convention. (The […]

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Video from The Secrets

Okay, so I found this website that allows you to do cool little animations. Check this out: Yes, yet another way to waste time on the net!

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Quick Writing Tip: Fortune Cookie Ideas

Quick Writing Tip: Fortune Cookie Ideas

One of the questions authors get asked all the time is, “Where do you get your ideas?” This is the rough equivalent of asking a surgeon, “How do you know where to cut?” The answer to each is that it’s a combination of training and experience, study and a little bit of luck. (And, ask […]

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Thanks to everyone…

Thanks to everyone…

I released 21 Days to a Novel less than a month ago, and you’ve been buying up copies of it as if I was selling gold. I suppose, technically, I am. 21 Days to a Novel will help you put together all the material you need to start on that novel you’ve always wanted to […]

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21 Days To a Novel

21 Days To a Novel

I know it’s taken forever, but I finally finished 21 Days To a Novel. I’d promised to turn it out as a stand-alone book back when I was running that sequence of podcasts in The Secrets, and it’s just taken me a bit longer to get it done than it should have. Something about writing […]

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Obsidian, Office Hours and more…

First thing: J. C. Hutchins’ 7th Son: Obsidian has posted the episode that I wrote and recorded. It’s titled He Sees In Shadows and is definitely the creepiest piece of fiction I’ve ever written. It’s part of the Obsidian podcast series. If you want some entertaining stories and reads, check it out. Tonight (June 18th), […]

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