It has been a while since I’ve done a rant about plagiarism. It’s one of the more corrosive bits of self-destruction writers engage in. It might be envy, or laziness or something deep-seated and broken in the writer’s psyche, but Read more…
Now that Marked has come out, I’ve been doing some e-mail interviews with blogs out there on the Interwebs. Today one of my interviews has appeared on Paul Semel’s blog. I get to talk about Marked, zombies, airships, alternate timelines, Read more…
So a few days ago Slate published an article in what has become a distressingly common subgenre we could call “People are writing SF wrong! Here’s what we must do to fix it!” It seems to have been inspired by an earlier Read more…
Today is the release date for my genre mash-up novel Marked. (You can now get it on Amazon.) Follow Detective Dana Rohan as she slips into alternate pasts and futures and faces the Shadows living in the Chaos. Publisher’s Weekly Read more…
On January 15th, my new novel Marked will officially hit the shelves. DAW’s given it a nice trade paperback treatment, with a kick-ass cover by Chris Gibbs. And yes, the title of this post is not clickbait. In this book Read more…
Well, I got a chance to see the first two episodes of the new Star Trek and here are my thoughts: If you obsess about canon, this series will trigger you hard. There is no way you can sensibly integrate Read more…
It seems there’s a very good chance I’ll be doing a new game with Choice of Games. Looks like it will be more of a fantasy outing this time. Watch this space for more news as I have it.
I’ve written before about the self-destructive urges writers get. Plagiarism needs to be near the top of the list. Penning sexist rants about your greatness to an agent is another. And, of course, there’s always the venerable Internet meltdown. Now Read more…
After about a week of website problems, I finally got the site back up and running. Pro-tip for all you sysadmins out there, if you “fix” something, document precisely what you did, just in case you didn’t fix the problem Read more…
So far my Facebook group, Swann’s Lounge, seems to be a success. But it comes at a price. On one of the more popular threads people are listing “obscure” SF/F titles. There’s a lot of good stuff in there. But Read more…