However, if you’re missing seeing seeing me in print lately, hang on.  I will be trying an experiment on this here blog starting September 5th.

Colleen Lindsay:

Thank you for making it clear, through your response to my query, that you are unquipped (sic) to represent fiction writers who are working at the very highest level today.

Best of luck with your list of minor writers, third-rate writers, irrelevant writers, non-writers.

You lose, silly woman.

Patrick Roscoe

I pointed, I laughed, I moved on with my life. Imagine my surprise when today, in my spam filter, I find a comment from someone coming to defend Mr. Roscoe’s honor from such ill deserved mocking engage in an attempt at their own mockery at the expense of myself. Turns out, someone put my Roscoe post up on Reddit and it started a tiny little flame war with Mr. Roscoe’s champion. I’m sort of flattered.

“With your ability, certainly you have learned praises before but I just want to involve to the many who have thanked you for what you’ve attained. Your work are one of a kind and show great insight. Thanks for your contributions!”

I almost approved it, since I rarely get spam on new posts. Then I look a little closer and note the slightly broken English. Then I note that while the comment might reflect the post I made on Book Chick City, it didn’t actually mention the post, or writing, or anything else concrete. It could be about anything. Then I look at the URL the poster used: a link trolling site.

Akismet Y U No catch this spam?

If you want to really do this, you can’t complain about lacking the time.  If you lack the time, it’s only because you have placed things higher on the priority list than actually writing.

Things like blogging. . .

That is all.

Anyway, still alive, activity on the Blog and Facebook to the contrary.

If I don’t blog before then, Merry Christmas.

I’m going to have to look for a more stable plugin, I don’t want to deal with that again.

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To the Wolf’s Cross page.

So, if my politics scare you, you can just ignore them.

Also like Scalzi, I’ve decided to stop with the default use of Amazon as the “book buy” link on my pages.  I’ve tweaked my template to give you the option to get my stuff from Indiebound, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s, and Borders, as well as Amazon. As in the little screen capture to the right.

ON WRITING VILLAINS : One of the trickier aspects of writing fiction is coming up with believable villains. It’s tricky enough that some writers eschew the idea of a villain entirely, and simply have an antagonist who opposes the “good guys” for perfectly good and reasonable reasons. Nothing wrong with that approach, and some of the best drama can be drawn from the conflict of two mutually exclusive “goods.”

But sometimes you need evil.

Go read the rest.

This is also a milestone in that (at the moment) it is the last book I’m contracted to write.  For the first time I don’t have any additional contractual commitments which both liberating and incredibly frightening.  (Especially frightening to my wife, who really wants me to be able to ditch the day job so we can move out into the middle of Amish country before the economy collapses.)

Since I’m going to be working on book proposals when I’m not at the day job or working on Messiah,  (or digging out from the snowpocalypse)  I’m going to cut the blogging down to thrice a week for the time being.

Oh, and if you want to help out, buy a copy of Wolfbreed or Prophets.  If you can’t afford to buy a book, tell all your friends to buy them, that doesn’t cost anything (and then you can borrow a copy, everyone wins.)

Second off, speaking of Wolfbreed, I’ve put up a sample chapter for your perusal.

Third off, speaking of sample chapters, I’ve done likewise for Prophets.

Fourth off, I’ve added pages for upcoming 2010 titles, Wolf’s Cross and Heretics.

Also, another blogger has decided to have a contest with my book as a prize.  Cool.

Also, I’ve put up a home here for Wolfbreed, although that book is probably also going to get its own web presence. (it’s just special that way)   You’ll see the new cover down in my neato-keen navigation panel to the lower left.  I might note that this is the only book on the site where I’ve based the descriptive text on the actual blurb on the back of the book.  (Actually the longer version from when it was slated to be hardcover.)