Trader’s Diary

It’s that time of year again, folks, and this time there’s some interesting developments in the category department. Here’s the qualification blurb for novel form: Best Speculative Fiction Story (Long Form) * Novel-length stories containing elements of science fiction, fantasy or horror * Story audio length (minus intro/promo) over 7 hours * Uses only 1 [...]

Several of you are asking where we are on the various projects so let me take a moment to give you a status report. The last of the major edits for the paper version of Quarter Share have been sent back to Ridan. We should be clearing the last of the “clean up” edits in [...]

Robin reminded me that I haven’t keep you up to date on the editing. We’ve passed the book back and forth about three times now and I’m very pleased with the way the editing is going. We’ve had some tweaking of the cover art, mostly for color and tone, but the real time is being [...]

Ridan has been watching your response to the announcement of getting the books in print and they’re floating the idea of putting out a special, hard cover, limited edition run. The price will be pretty high (I don’t know how high yet, but I’d guess around $30-$35) but we’re thinking something like running 100 of [...]

Three years ago this month — on January 12, 2007 — I sat down at my keyboard and started to write a novel. At the time, I had no idea if I could. I’d started often enough before in my life and never finished. I didn’t really know if I would finish that one, but [...]

It’s fitting that on the Winter Solstice we open the door to Lammas Wood. While I’ve spent most of this month working on the second and third drafts of Ravenwood, it became increasingly clear to me that this world needed its own place to live. After at least a half an hour of thinking and [...]

Several people have asked me where my main feed is — and I just got another request this morning. I don’t have one. My thinking is that each title needs to stand on its own. As a result I rebuild every title’s followers from 0. That means that if you don’t keep track of me [...]

Yay! I went to check my iTunes stats and found this waiting… In case you’re new to the iTunes Music Store, that’s Captain’s Share as the first title under New and Notable for ARTS! Not Arts > Literature which is cool enough but the parent category of ARTS!! Thank you SO much to the 46 [...]

This seems a little like the mouse and lion – I’m the mouse here – but JC Hutchins, that paragon of promotion, needs some help to make the release of 7th Son: Descent a smash hit with his publisher, St. Martin’s Press. Some of you may have heard the promo I did for this on [...]

With the completion of Captain’s Share yesterday, I’ve come to the end of another production cycle. My plans for the next few months include catching up with all the things I’ve pushed into the background for the last few weeks. For those who missed the news about NaNoWriMo – the National Novel Writing Month – [...]