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Where I'll be and what I'll be doing! (MidSouthCon Edition!)
Hey, folks! This is just to let you know that I will be appearing as one of the Guests of Honor at MidSouthCon just outside of Memphis TN this coming…
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More Cheap Books! (Machine for $1.99 in North America.)
The second book in the White Space series, Machine, is now $1.99 in ebook the US and Canada (and if I am checking correctly, £3.99 in the UK). So if you…
Mar 12
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Author points: what are they, how do they work, and how can I get some?
Hello, all! Author points is a term I coined decades ago to describe the goodwill a reader has toward a writer’s work if they are already invested in…
Mar 7
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February 2024
Chronic pain and other delights. Also, Ancestral Night is still on sale.
First things first! Ancestral Night is still on sale for $1.99 in North America! Get it while the getting is good! In unrelated news, I’ve been trying a…
Feb 27
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The tiny personal hell of author's notes, cheap ebooks, and but also, a FOLDED SKY publication date!
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Feb 24
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January 2024
The Bite Sized Chunk
How do you deal with a project that’s just enormously, overwhelmingly big? You just do the next thing, is all. This applies whether the overwhelmingly…
Jan 29
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A happy ending depends on where you stop telling the story.
Sometimes I think that fiction is soothing because it posits there are solutions in this world, rather than just practices. You can do a thing and get…
Jan 21
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They tell you to be here now but they don't unpack what that means, now do they?
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Jan 15
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They tell you to be here now but they don't unpack what that means, now do they?
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Social media does have its uses.
In my last email, I was talking about how social media and the unblinking Sauron-eye of the Internet can make creating good art very hard, because that…
Jan 8
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It's hard to make art when you're guarded and the internet is a terrible place to be vulnerable.
The older and crankier (or maybe the older and wiser) I get, the more I think social media and being Extremely Online can be really bad for innovation…
Jan 2
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It's hard to make art when you're guarded and the internet is a terrible place to be vulnerable.
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December 2023
A few of the things that cancer taught me
Eat right, exercise, and die anyway.
Dec 30, 2023
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A few of the things that cancer taught me
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We judge because we're scared
A little bit of housekeeping: I will most likely be moving this newsletter to a different platform in the New Year, but ideally that move will be…
Dec 26, 2023
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We judge because we're scared
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