That’s the news, hoopy froods — a reminder that my rescheduled B&N Easton/Bethlehem appearance is this very weekend. I’ll be at B&N in what they call Bethlehem but I think is kinda sorta Easton — it’s this store right here. I’ll be there at 1pm! I’ll sign books! I’ll talk! I’ll dance! I won’t dance! […]

That’s it, really, that’s the post — WANDERERS is on sale! $2.99 at your major e-book platforms. So if you haven’t checked it out, now’s yer chance. And if you have checked it out and care to spread the word, that’d be awfully nifty. The links, if you need ’em: Kobo B&N Apple Google Play […]

On this, the first ‘official’ morning of 2023 (meaning, a work morning), I read an article, as one does, at Bookseller: “AI narration is inevitable.” Written by Mark Piesing, it argues that AI narration is already very good and will only improve, that it’s cheap-as-free, that human narration is not necessarily better, and so on […]

(If you’d care to read last year’s 2022 resolution — here ’tis.) This year’s resolution is simple on the surface, if difficult to implement: Be vigorous in your defense of your work. Now, already I want to be clear that I don’t mean “defend it against bad reviews” or “against healthy criticism” or “editors” or […]

TIME HAS SUCCESSFULLY PASSED, I say, though I don’t find nearly as much evidence of that as I’d like. My wife compared Pandemic Time to defragging your hard drive — the relevant data bits are fewer, and so they get juggled together to free up space, which makes time and memory collapse and crumble in […]

I have a theory as to why people kept going back to see the first Avatar in the theaters, and it has nothing to do with the beautiful CGI world or the powerful 3D effects. It has everything to do with simply trying to remember the thing you just spent a lot of money and […]