The dark side’s coming now, nothing is real… If you know that lyric, you probably grew up in the 80s. It’s not at all what my new novel is about. But it was stuck in my head, so now it can be stuck in yours as well. You’re welcome. DARKSIDE is the name of my...

With GENERATION SHIP coming out in just about a week, I thought I’d address a question that I get a lot. A lot of well-meaning people say “We’d love to support your book. What’s the best way to do that?” It happens enough that I thought I’d put it into a resource where I could...

I’ve been horrible about updating my blog. So I thought I’d at least give an update as to what’s going on with my work for those who are interested. Here’s where we’re at: GENERATION SHIP is done. When I say done, I mean I don’t ever touch it again. We’ve sent out early copies to...

Do you know Kel? You should. Kel is an excitable bookseller who has captured the hearts of a lot of the author world online with her tales of working in book stores, promoting books, and generally just being great and excited about all things book. I saw her the other day doing an AMA (Ask...

I taught at the Saga Writer’s Conference in Winston Salem this weekend, and it was really great. I had a good time and got some excellent interaction with the attendees, both in my classes and at the mixer. I promised that I’d post my slides from the Pace and Structure class, and you can find...

Hi there. It’s indie SF day here on the blog. Why you ask? Why not? Every day should be indie SF day. But also, I want to share a project that I worked on that supports indie SF authors. Lately I’ve been working with the SFWA book bundle team, where we take a bunch of...

Every so often the same topics come around, and one that I’ve seen lately relates to social media as an author. As always, I believe that anyone tells you there’s one best way to do things is probably wrong. You can be on Tik Tok. You don’t have to be on Tik Tok. You can...

Here’s the post where I lay out everything I earned from publishing in 2022 with enough explanation to make sense of it. I did a money post at this time last year as well, which you can see here, that talks a little bit about how year to year income isn’t always the best indicator...

There’s this idea in publishing that you have to be lucky to become successful, and I think that’s true. There are so many factors beyond the control of the author. There are really good books that never find their readership. There are mediocre books that definitely do (and no, I’m not going to name them....

Here’s what this isn’t. This isn’t a post that tells you to just hold on and everything will work out. Because I don’t know that. Neither does anybody else. And I’m not here to spout toxic optimism. So if that’s what it’s not, what is it? I don’t know. It’s a story. A true one....