What do you do when your job moves to work from home and you’ve got a book due? The short answer is that you write the book. But then, there’s more to it than that, right? Let me set the situation. Part A: In mid-February, I got my edit letter for COLONYSIDE (Planetside 3) back...

This week I got my edit letter back on Planetside 3, so I’m putting away the new project for a while and getting to work on revisions. It’s a pretty significant revision–the biggest one I’ve done–but the notes from my editor, David Pomerico, are excellent and I could immediately see how I was going to...

The other day on Twitter I mentioned having some good news. This is it. On the scale of publishing news, it’s not really huge, but it’s important to me, so I’m going to share it. Before I get to that, let me say that nothing is changing with book three. Planetside 3 is turned in...

Most of the leaves have fallen off of the tree in my front yard and we ate a bunch of turkey yesterday, so even though it’s probably going to be 70 today here in Georgia, I guess it’s fall. It’s been a while since I’ve given an update, so I wanted to do that to...

I have made the decision and notified the school where I work that this will be my last year teaching. So as of Memorial Day weekend of 2020, I’ll be a full time writer. Because there is a lot of confusion and misinformation about authors and how they earn money, I wanted to put this...

I currently don’t have any appearances scheduled for the remainder of 2023. I may add a book signing locally some time around the release of GENERATION SHIP (In October) and am currently booking online appearances in support of that book’s release. If you’re a podcaster or book reviewer/interviewer and are interested in having me as...

Recently I announced the sale of two more books to Harper Voyager, the first of which will be the third book in the series that follows Carl Butler, and started with Planetside. Here’s what I can tell you right now: 1. Spaceside, book 2 in the series, is still coming out on August 27th. Spaceside...

Sometimes I write stuff that’s not very good. At this point, if you’re not a writer, you might have one of two reactions. Wait, I’ve read your book. It’s good! I’ve read your book. You’re right. But I’m not talking about the finished product today, so regardless of what you think of Planetside, set that...

I haven’t done an update post in a while, so I thought I’d do that. Or maybe I’m stalling on the day prior to vacation. Who can say? First off, I’ve updated my website, and I now hate the draft tool. It looks very different. It looks exactly the same on the site, but it’s...

Don’t believe everything you hear. It sounds simple enough, but I think we all fall into the trap sometimes. It’s especially easy to trip over it in the publishing industry, where a lot of what happens does so behind closed doors. We get glimpses, but even then, it’s only what someone allows us to see. ...