For me, this is a holiday of giving (among other things) and I wanted to take the chance to thank you for the support you've given me.
Happy holidays to everyone who can read this, and ...
2022-12-25 20:31:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Remember, the True Meaning of Christmas is paying your employees a decent wage.
2022-12-23 19:07:59 +0000 UTC View PostThe Flood Circle reached one thousand copies sold (counting Amazon sales only) as of yesterday, 11/29. The Iron Gate 2022-12-01 01:14:14 +0000 UTC View Post
In case anyone out there needs to hear this: I don’t have a Venmo account. Please don’t send money to me through that service. That’s not me.
I got an email on Saturday congratulating m...
2022-11-17 23:19:52 +0000 UTC View PostFor years, I’ve been picking up the odd indie game here and there, trying to find (among other things) one that seems like it could be a great mystery game. I haven’t really found a promising o...
2022-11-15 21:22:17 +0000 UTC View PostTwo days ago, sales for The Iron Gate at Amazon crossed the 1000 copies mark. That’s print and ebook combined and it’s just the one vendor.
An ordinary sales run for traditionall...
2022-11-03 20:23:50 +0000 UTC View PostYou can pick up a copy at this link
https://drive.google.com/drive/fol...
2022-11-01 04:41:59 +0000 UTC View PostI have already described the origin of The Flood Circle in my post about 2022-10-31 19:56:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Friday was the release date of my newest novel, The Iron Gate. It was my return to the Twenty Palaces series, the books that landed me a publisher and a fanbase, and it’s the first new novel in t...
2022-10-03 21:40:18 +0000 UTC View PostWelp, today has been weird, but it's a genuine happy moment for me to be sending this link to you:
The Iron Gate, a Twenty Palaces novel:
Let me throw that cover art into the mix again:
Now, let me post the back cover copy t...
2022-09-27 18:24:27 +0000 UTC View PostBe sure to let your email load images.
That's the front cover.
Here's the description...
2022-09-24 17:12:39 +0000 UTC View PostIn my previous post, I said I was going to start trying to write shorter blog posts, which I would be able to finish in a reasonable length of time and which would then, with luck, actually be post...
2022-07-26 19:29:06 +0000 UTC View PostIt has been a week since the second volume of Stranger Things season four has come out, so it’s probably safe to talk about it now. But I won’t. Not yet.
I find myself starting blog posts...
2022-07-10 19:41:11 +0000 UTC View PostOkay, so the full trailer for Stranger Things 4 has finally come out. Here it is. (Sorry, no embeds in Patreon, at least in this...
2022-04-15 17:16:53 +0000 UTC View PostYeah, this post is full of spoilers for The Batman. The good kind, but still.
It’s probably not the case that Francois Truffaut explicitly said that it was impossible to make an anti-war fi...
2022-04-08 23:45:45 +0000 UTC View PostToday is the last day of the 99 cent sale of SPFBO (a contest for self-published fantasy novels...
2022-02-27 17:23:14 +0000 UTC View PostFirst of all, thank you for all the kind words about my sister. I’m grateful for every kindness at a time like this.
Second, I plan to cook up a little tre...
2021-12-23 22:26:35 +0000 UTC View PostI’m typing this on a plane as we board a flight to Philly. I’m leaving Seattle because a doctor told a family member that my big sister is likely to die today or tomorrow, and I’m hoping to s...
2021-12-16 15:31:41 +0000 UTC View PostIf you’re a Kickstarter backer for the two new 20P novels, you’ve likely already received the announcement that the zero draft (aka: the vomit draft) of The Flood Circle is done. That ...
2021-12-05 17:19:55 +0000 UTC View PostFirst of all, I know this is (::checks word count::) Way Too Long. This is very much an Overthinking It-style analysis, and maybe it would be better if I cut it way back, or focused on only one of ...
2021-11-06 18:54:38 +0000 UTC View PostHey, it’s Halloween time, which means I’m watching Halloweenish shows and movies. And I have even more opinions here in part 3, also known as “part last”. (Spoilers for everything)
Hey, it’s Halloween time, which means I’m watching Halloweenish shows and movies. And I have even more opin...
2021-10-28 21:15:49 +0000 UTC View PostHey, it’s Halloween time, which means I’m watching Halloweenish shows and movies. And I have opinions. (Spoilers for everything)
The Shining (1980): Supposedly one of the...
2021-10-18 18:45:27 +0000 UTC View PostSometimes I like to imagine that I could time-travel back to the 1950s and write a science fiction novel about my life here in twenty-first century America.
The more I think about it, the mor...
2021-08-17 16:49:22 +0000 UTC View PostIf you're interested in the progress I'm making on those two new Twenty Palaces novels, 2021-08-01 21:12:06 +0000 UTC View Post
So, we moved recently.
It always sucks to move but this was particularly terrible, because it happened during that massive PNW heatwave from four weeks ago. Here’s a short version of the st...
2021-07-26 23:08:35 +0000 UTC View PostI’m one of those people who doesn’t recognize his own stress until it erupts at the wrong moment. I feel fine (I’m fine! Really!) for a whole day or week or whatever, no really, I’m okay. T...
2021-04-20 23:07:21 +0000 UTC View PostA few years back, I entered The Way into Chaos into SPFBO, the Self-Published Fantasy Blog Off, a reviewer...
2021-01-14 22:21:54 +0000 UTC View Post“I have thoughts about the new Wonder Woman movie. I should blog about them!”
::one week later::
Let me try to get this all down:
First thing: Patty Jenkins k...
2021-01-02 01:37:27 +0000 UTC View Post