I don’t think anyone would say I’m easy on the characters in my books. Almost all of them, in fact, are put through several flavors of hell before the end. I have noticed something lately, a developing trend in my more recent work, that has bearing on the kind of Read more…
Prophets comes out in March 2009, and in advance of it coming out I have made my first attempt at a book trailer. The images are from NASA, a godsend for folks looking for spectacular royalty-free sfnal imagery. The music comes from Kevin MacLeod who runs a great music site Read more…
Officially got to 33% of Heretics today. So far I am on course to get this thing done by year end.
Well Eleanor just got the Prophets cover from DAW, and it’s all full of crunchy SF goodness. This will be hitting the shelves March 2009. UPDATE: I should let you all know who the artist is behind this great cover, the 2008 winner of the Hugo for best artist, Stephan Read more…
Side-stepping the world of politics for a moment, I wanted to mention that I’m finally back to writing new material, after doing rewrites of three novels in a row. You’ll notice the counters slowly starting to move again as I work on Heretic, the second volume of the Apotheosis trilogy. Read more…
The good news is that I got Valentine’s Night polished up, printed out, and sent off to Eleanor today. This is the second spec manuscript I’ve written in as many years, in addition to finishing off Prophets for DAW. Here’s hoping it does as well as Lilly’s Song. This means, Read more…
I turned in the editorial revisions for Prophets today, which means that I am officially done with it. It got a bit longer which is why all the counters moved around. Next task, is a second round of editorial edits on Lilly’s Song, which are relatively minor and should only Read more…
No I didn’t forget about them, it’s just this little old thing called revision. See, when I finish a novel and turn it into an editor, it isn’t really finished. Since you all saw those counters grind to a halt I’ve been stuck revising Lilly’s Song for Bantam, and I’m Read more…
Well, since I finished up the Wolfbreed rewrite, I haven’t done much writing. I guess I just needed to rest the old story muscle for a bit. Also, the next thing I’m working on is Heretic, the second book in the Apotheosis Trilogy. This means going straight from a rewrite Read more…
Now that I finished the unscheduled spec novel (the first draft anyway) I am now in the throes of doing an editorial rewrite on Wolfbreed #1 (did I mention I need titles?) which will probably take me through mid-April (tax day, wheee). After that’s done the plan is now to Read more…