Tag Archives: Fiction
One more story down

One more story down

This ended up being a good week. Today I finished up the first draft of Chance Corrigan and the Tick-tock King of the Nile. The story is destined, I hope, to be included in the forthcoming anthology from DAW called Steampunk. Jean Rabe is editing it with Martin H. Greenberg. The story was a lot […]

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Reading Redux: At The Queen’s Command

Reading Redux: At The Queen’s Command

Just over a week ago I did a reading of the first three chapters of At The Queen’s Command, my new fantasy novel, in Second Life. I’ve been asked to do another reading for those who couldn’t make it. I agreed, and will do the reading tonight, 11 February, at 9 Eastern/6 Pacific time. The […]

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Timeshares: a new anthology!

Timeshares: a new anthology!

Timeshares is a brand new anthology edited by Jean Rabe and Martin H. Greenberg. It’s organized around a frame story by Kevin J. Anderson. The theme is simple: Timeshares is a company that allows customers to vacation anywhere in time! It goes on sale in March, so you should find it in stores by the […]

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Authors Can Be Stupid: $500 ebook design for free!

Authors Can Be Stupid: $500 ebook design for free!

One of the things that keeps being said about self-published ebooks is that they lack professional book design. This is short for “they look like crap.” As you are aware, I have two ebook readers, and I’ve purchased commercially available ebooks from traditional publishers. Those designers are no great shakes, for reasons I can’t fathom. […]

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Authors Can Be Stupid: The Self-publishing Stigma

Authors Can Be Stupid: The Self-publishing Stigma

There’s a stigma to self-publishing, and we all know it. Why? Because, in the past, self-published books have sucked. A lot of self-published work today sucks. And when I use that word, it’s a technical term. Face it, most self-published books are a pig-in-a-poke. Looks good, but you can’t be sure. If it’s a physical […]

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Authors Can Be Stupid: Doing the Ebook Math

Authors Can Be Stupid: Doing the Ebook Math

One of the things that keeps being bruited about in this discussion over digital books and pricing is a question of how much digital books really cost. The base cost of a book, of course, determines its final price. Repeatedly people have come out and said that the production costs of an ebook is fairly […]

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An Online Reading of At The Queen’s Command

Tomorrow, Saturday, January 30th, at 6 Eastern/3 Pacific, I’ll be reading the first three chapters from my new book At The Queen’s Command. This is your chance to get a preview of this new novel. The reading will be conducted via Second Life. Second Life is a graphics based chat software suite that includes VOIP. […]

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