I ignored Sidney Sheldon's Rage of Angels when it was on the best-seller lists, but lately became curious what drew people to his work. Reading it, I'm discovering some tricks about the craft of storytelling. [Continue]

I’ve been dealing with some blog and website issues all of today, and all I can say is man that sure sucks up time and brain. Not helped, either, when tech support tosses one’s problem back and forth between 4 people before a supervisor has to [Continue]

In my breaks between writing stints, I’ve started migrating some of my Sa’adani Empire content online. That’s the larger cultural backdrop behind my books Mainline and Splintegrate; it is also a role-playing game setting. Later in 2009 [Continue]

I feel like time is a rollercoaster, to mangle a metaphor right out of the gate:  instead of up or down, it is fast or slow, and entirely out of my control these days. That may seem like a statement that applies at any time, but I will huff about [Continue]

In a roundabout way, this is an update on where I’m at in my process with Splintegrate. I finally have brain-sucking client work completely out of the way. Today I took a day off, played a board game with my sister, made peasoup (great in this [Continue]

My current work in progress, Splintegrate, is due to be delivered to my editor at Tor Books at the end of January. !!!!  This is the first new book from me in a long time.  It is not exactly a sequel to Mainline, but takes place in that setting [Continue]