Tales from the Raven

You know all the buzz about ebooks?  Indie authors, and the latest way to make $$ on the internet writing what you love?  Well, get ready cause I just finished an interview with Sarra Cannon, indie author extraordinaire!  It’ll go up on my group blog, the cabinet, this Friday morning.  Come check it out, and bring your questions [...]

Chinatown.  The Numismatic museum (and pirate gold!).  The World Trade Center Memorial.  The Empire State Building.  Grand Central Station.  And, of course, SCBWI’s winter conference.  What do all of these have in common? They’re going to be really cold and icy this weekend! But I’m a writer.  I write.  Sometimes I daydream.  In an efficient and [...]

Or, that’s what I’d call it anyway.  Super congrats to Caleb Warnock on signing a three book contract with Ceder Fort!  I know the scheduled book is a very practical nonfiction devoted to self-sufficiency skills, but as an especially privileged cousin, I’ve eaten Caleb’s cooking and I’m betting the book is jam-packed with tasty recipes.  [...]

It’s got the penultimate bad boy you know you shouldn’t love.  It’s got a sweet and witty girl way in over her head.  It’s got ancient magic from the dawn of time, and a clash between the forces of heaven and hell.  Sink your teeth into Hush, Hush, and you’ll soon be begging for seconds. Congratulations to Becca [...]

Tuesday was an interesting day.  First there was the news that my story had bombed out on the wotf front.  That took several large gulps to get down, but has since been digested and accepted. In searching for a submission backdoor I chatted with James Maxey and found that he and authors David Drake, Mark [...]

After quizzing the aquarium staff at the Georgia Aquarium until they must have wondered if I was some kind of secret shopper for all things fishy, then heading over for a two parts delight, one part misery visit to the Terracotta warriors (the misery was due to our arriving at the same time as the school groups), we [...]

I may have known this before, but if so, I forgot to tell myself and will now make it a public announcement so I can’t miss hearing about it: James Maxey‘s book, Dragonforge, has been nominated for the David Gemmell Legend Award!  Go here to vote.  If you haven’t read it yet, do so quickly, and [...]

I’m not really awake this morning, just pretending for a few hours.  Our New Year’s celebration was extended, just as it should have been winding down, by a sick child.  I think I got to bed sometime between 3:00 and 4:00am…and, yes, I’m still in bed at something close to 11:00am–though I have bestirred myself [...]

Okay, time to drop one of those broad hints we writers like to pass along…I just got my copy of the Every Day Fiction best of anthology, and it looks like a really great stocking stuffer!  With lots of contributers and 100 short stories, there’s bound to be something in there for everyone. And of [...]

I just heard that James Maxey’s story, Silent as the Dust, has been included in the Fantasy: Best of the Year 2009 anthology edited by Rich Horton.  The full table of contents are here, and I also note that Patrick Rothfuss has a story inclusion, among others.  Congrats, guys!  Very cool beans. Silent as the Dust was [...]