So the flight to Calgary was at 7:55am on Thursday. Being the anal-retentive American traveler that I am, I decided to leave my apartment at 5am to make sure I had plenty of time to deal with airport BS. It’s a good thing I did, but not due to any airline problems, believe it or [...]

A month or so ago, one of my readers was kind enough to create a Wikipedia page for The Painted Man.
The article is a stub however, and will be deleted soon if some other user does not help to expand it. I would do it myself, but I feel that it would be inappropriate for [...]

As I said in my last post on this topic, Robert Jordan once told me to only write what I wanted, and to ignore what fans and patrons wanted from me.
With all due respect to a giant of fantasy literature whom I admire greatly, Mr. Jordan was wrong.
On the other hand, some of my friends, [...]

Apologies to anyone who has been waiting on this post. I know it’s taken a long time for me to write it, but that’s because it’s a topic close to my heart, and I wanted to take time and put my thoughts in proper order to do it justice. I also knew it would be [...]

It’s been a week since the convention, but one thing or another has been taking up my time, and I haven’t really had a chance to put down my thoughts. Mainly because I knew this might be a long post.
First off, the drive to Albany was amazing. With my fancy new Garmin GPS navigator, there [...]

Working on a post about Albacon that seems to be growing into a post about cons in general. It’s going to take me a while to get that one done, so in the meantime, here are some more reviews of The Painted Man:
NextRead: This reviewer teased on his site for a few weeks before posting [...]

While I was in London, I did a video interview for Amazon.co.uk. I wrote a blog post about it last month. The video is meant to be embedded on the Amazon Page for The Painted Man as a sales tool, but I was also told it would be live on YouTube and that I and [...]

Last week, I wrote a post entitled Words Written vs. Words Used, which was partly a craft discussion and partly a window into my insane obsession with numbers and statistics. I received a comment this morning that included a question I started to reply to, but as my answer grew lengthier, I decided to just [...]

Quick post this morning as I need to be out the door shortly. I’m putting Dani and the baby in the car and taking them to my parents’ house, then my partner in crime/evil twin Jay Franco and I are heading up to Albany, NY for Albacon. I will be on a handful of panels [...]

I set a writing quota for myself every day: One thousand words. It may sound like a lot, but really, it’s a very modest goal, about three and a half double-spaced pages. Some weeks I don’t even come close, and other weeks I greatly exceed it. I consider >10,000 words a “good” week, and <5,000 [...]