Chuck Wendig is a novelist, screenwriter, and game designer. This is his blog. He talks a lot about writing. And food. And the madness of toddlers. He uses lots of naughty language. NSFW. Probably NSFL. Be advised.

“THE FIVE OCCULTED PIGMENTS: CERULEAN, AS DISCUSSED. VERMILION, THE RED RAGE. VIRIDIAN, THE GREEN GRAVE. OCHRE, THE GOLDEN GATE. CAPUT MORTUUM, THE VIOLET VOID, OR SIMPLY, THE DEAD HEAD. WE WILL NOT FIND THE OTHER FOUR HERE IN THE SHALLOWS, I SUSPECT. BUT RATHER, THEY MUST EXIST SOMEWHERE IN THE FATHOMLESS TANGLE — OR IN THE RAVENOUS EXPANSE.” The Blue Blazes Coming May 28th, 2013. Pre-order: Amazon B&N Indiebound (text by Chuck Wendig)

Last week I asked: what gets you to read a book? What works to convince you to pick up that book and start reading? That post generated over 180 comments. It’s actually pretty enlightening — I’d suggest that writers and publishers and anybody peripherally related to the publishing industry poke through those comments. It’s a long read, but contains some surprising answers (f’rex, blurbs figure in more than I would’ve imagined). This week, I want to look at the other side of the question: Once you’ve picked up a book, what... Read The Rest →

HEY, LOOK, NEWS. Angry Robot has signed me on for another couple books. That makes *does some quick math that takes two hours* six books with them. Which is a lot of books. I mean, I went from being not a novelist in 2010, then to having my first book published in 2011 and then… well, by the end of 2015 I should have 16 novels out in the world. I clearly have some sort of brain parasite. But it’s a fun parasite! I’m a fan! Anyway. One of these two... Read The Rest →

Here’s what happens: You have this baby. This baby is boring. I mean, the baby’s sweet and all. Chubby-cheeked and wrinkle-butted. But after a while you figure out the baby’s only got so many tricks in his bag: giggle, fart, coo, burble, squirm, fill diaper, start over again. You can connect with the baby on a kind of primal-spiritual level, like, you hold the baby and you stare into his eyes and contained there in those big blue orbs are the secrets of the universe. (The baby, of course, is just admiring... Read The Rest →

UNDER THE EMPYREAN SKY Final cover! Preorder: Amazon / B&N / Indiebound Corn is king in the Heartland, and Cael McAvoy has had enough of it. It’s the only crop the Empyrean government allows the people of the Heartland to grow—and the genetically modified strain is so aggressive that it takes everything the Heartlanders have just to control it. As captain of the Big Sky Scavengers, Cael and his crew sail their rickety ship over the corn day after day, scavenging for valuables. But Cael’s tired of surviving life on... Read The Rest →