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Help yourself to a free copy of Dragonsword, the first fantasy novel from Deborah Teramis Christian in over a decade. Now available for immediate download at the Dragonsword book site, or you can read an excerpt here.

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Improving Sales and Income in Ebook Publishing

Improving Sales and Income in Ebook Publishing

How can a short story writer make a reasonable profit in today's ebook publishing market? Here are a few approaches that might help. [Continue]

Why TV Productions Suck and How YouTube Will Save Us

Why TV Productions Suck and How YouTube Will Save Us

The studio production process in TV/film forces mediocrity. Look to web-centric productions for the emerging wave of quality entertainment. Indie artists are producing Hollywood-quality work for cheap on the web, without studio constraints. [Continue]

Back in Time With Living History: the PBS “House” Projects

Back in Time With Living History: the PBS “House” Projects

PBS' "House" series of history documentaries take modern people back to live in earlier eras. These shows are a terrific study of human behavior and radical displacement in time and space. They might even be the next best thing to time travel. [Continue]

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and My Novel MAINLINE

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and My Novel MAINLINE

Forget the English version of this flick: Noomi Rapace in the original is the bomb, and a double for Reva, my assassin protagonist in Mainline. [Continue]

When to Use Old Language and Slang in Your Stories

When to Use Old Language and Slang in Your Stories

Writing in a different time period? Here are resources to help make sure you're using the right slang and old language for the setting. [Continue]

Public Debate, Dialog, and Debate.fm

Public Debate, Dialog, and Debate.fm

Debate sites online: a growing trend? These are welcome baby steps in the direction of public dialog around real issues, especially if they can get us away from the snarly, pointless free-for-all of mudslinging that passes for discussion all over [Continue]

Book Covers, Artists, Authors, and Publishing

Book Covers, Artists, Authors, and Publishing

What is the relationship between author, artist, publisher and book cover? Getting the right look for a book is not all that straightforward. This post explains how some of this stuff works, sometimes. [Continue]

Three Problems to Avoid If You Publish a Fiction Ebook

Three Problems to Avoid If You Publish a Fiction Ebook

If you're writing and publishing ebook fiction, here are some quirks to avoid if you want to succeed. [Continue]

Why You Don’t Need to Register Something to Copyright It

Why You Don’t Need to Register Something to Copyright It

Some people mistakenly think you need to register a manuscript to copyright it. Not so. Read about the two factors that ensure your copyright. [Continue]

The Black Dahlia: a Sideways Murder Mystery

The Black Dahlia: a Sideways Murder Mystery

The Black Dahlia (2006) is an attempt to invent a solution to the unsolved Black Dahlia murder. It falls short on several counts. [Continue]

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Author Deborah Teramis Christian


Teramis wrote her first book at age 9, but like all good literary lizards has taken her time charging upon the market. Finally in a situation where she can write full time, she is becoming the Dragon, Unleashed, or a close facsimile thereof. Roar, said the saur.

Teramis On the Web

Alternate History Weekly Update - Guest Blogging

MilSciFi Interview - re "Live Fire" in No Man's Land

New Books


This military science fiction anthology contains "Live Fire," Christian's Tiptree Award-nominated short story set in the Sa'adani Empire, the setting of her science fiction novels. Now available at Amazon in print and Kindle editions.