A New Novel for 2015

My upcoming novel Season of the Cats will be out from Wildside Press in 2015. More details about the novel and the publication date will be posted here soon, but in the meantime, here is a look at the cover design, with painting by Ron Miller.

The Usual Questions

Ali Kayn, based in Melbourne, Australia, has asked a number of people "the usual questions" at her site and I've answered them here. (I left one of the questions unanswered because it seemed to overlap with another question.) For more answers to the questions, go here. 

My First Novel

There is a "Famous Firsts" promotion going on at Open Road Media offering my first published novel, Cloned Lives, in its e-edition at a bargain price through November 26, 2014.

Writers and Branding

In this essay, Nicola Griffith eloquently captures many of the difficulties and contradictions writers face in selling their work and themselves.She does a much better job of resolving these problems than I have ever managed.

And Now for Something Completely Different

I'm not the first person to say this, but "going forward" may be the most useless phrase in the English language. Think about it. Add it to any sentence and it's always either redundant or unnecessary.