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Writing Seminars in Austin Next Week

Writing Seminars in Austin Next Week

Monday and Tuesday (July 26-27) Aaron Allston and I will be at Dragon’s Lair Comics and Fantasy in Austin, TX to hold two days of writing seminars. Dragon’s Lair has posted the full schedule of events for your edification. We’re putting on ten hours of seminars, including my 21 Days to a Novel and Aaron’s [...]

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I Write Like….

I Write Like….

In surfing around the Internet I chanced across the latest viral craze site: I Write Like…. It’s a site where you supply a sample of your writing, and the site reveals which famous author you write like. It’s a fun idea and I was kind of wondering if I’d get tagged as writing as myself. [...]

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The Adventure of the Ghost Watch

The Adventure of the Ghost Watch

The Adventure of The Ghost Watch
©2010 Michael A Stackpole
Jack Card sat in a big leather chair in the corner of the Wanderers’ Club quiet room. He did his best not to fidget. That would get him noticed, and in the room full of adults—especially these people—that was the last thing he wanted.
Rogers, the Club’s major [...]

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The Chain Story Project

The Chain Story Project

I have been so busy working on the Chain Story Project, that I’ve neglected to blog about it here. I guess that’s like the old saying—the cobbler’s children always go barefoot. Getting the project together has been a challenge, but now that things are rolling along, I’m confident the project will fulfill its potential and [...]

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Night of the Rat God

Night of the Rat God

Night of the Rat God
©2010 Michael A. Stackpole
Anderson followed me into the Wanderer’s Club quiet room. He wore the same desperate expression on his face as I did on mine. I beat him to the sideboard. “Scotch?”
“Please, neat.”
I poured him three fingers, then added another and handed it off. Rogers, the club’s wraithlike major domo, [...]

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Once a Hero now in epub

Once a Hero now in epub

In keeping with the release of Talion: Revenant in epub, I went ahead and put Once a Hero together in epub format, too.
Once a Hero was my very first published fantasy novel. It is still one of my best. In fact, were only one of my books to survive some holocaust, to be recovered a [...]

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Talion: Revenant now on the Kindle.

Talion: Revenant now on the Kindle.

Talion: Revenant is finally available for the Kindle!
The delay came from Amazon’s rather curious legal department’s requirement for double and triple verification that an author has the rights to any work he puts up. First, in the terms of service, if you put anything up that you don’t own, your service is terminated and you’re [...]

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