Being a sometime dive down the rabbit hole of the craft and business of writing. This post by Damon Linker, Lament for the Declining Art of Editing, recently popped up in my feed, as random animadversions so often do in this Internet age. So okay, some guy whining about Taylor Swift, what else is new,…
The statue of a Greek archer, found in the temple of Aphaia on the island of Aegina, just offshore of Athens. The temple was built circa 600 BC. This statue is a 3D printed copy of the original and painted to what they think it looked like back then. –currently on display at the “Chroma”…
This is the cover art (and pre-order links) for the next Kate Shugak novel. I’ll be publishing teeny, tiny excerpts from it in the next four newsletters so you should definitely sign up for it here. This, aspiring authors, is what we in the biz call “promotion.” I wrote about it before here, and I’ll…
It is infinitely instructive for writers to read the first novel written by the writers they revere. This is one such writer and his novel. Michael Gilbert wrote Close Quarters in 1937 and then went off to war, finishing it after he got home from the war (which included his escape from a prisoner of…
On the importance of setting. Can’t remember who I wrote this for. The US Coast Guard invited me to do a ridealong on cutter Alex Haley in the Bering Sea in February of 2004. I was invited to write a daily blog from the ship so the shorebound families of the crew could eyewitness as…
So…the Kate Shugak series is under option. Again. Yes, this means that someone, brow furrowed, is thinking hard about making a Kate Shugak film or a Kate Shugak television series and paid me money so no one else could think about it for the length of the option. I am not allowed to say who…
So I did some publisher shuffling a bit ago, which led my agent to inquire what I’d be doing to promote the books at the new/old house (don’t ask). I took a deep breath and let it out very, very slowly. Before I lost consciousness entirely (or my temper, which was a lot closer to…
Being a sometime dive down the rabbit hole on the craft and business of writing. When a new book comes out, sometimes people give the author gifts to celebrate. When you have a new Eye of Isis book out, they give you a Sphinx rubber duck lip balm. Life can hold no more. The first…
So…Isis3 publishes in 12 days, as you could hardly have missed if you follow this blog. On November 3rd at the Poisoned Pen in Scottsdale I’ll be signing the hardcover, where people will ask me questions about the book, like where the idea for it came from (well, I’m sorry, but you do always ask…
I’m already on record as someone who heartily endorses the Authors Guild as any writer’s one stop shopping for professional services. This includes their Resource Library, where they post videos from workshops and events, including as of today this year’s WIT Festival, where a bunch of writers gave forth serially over a weekend on various…
