On the Hugos, Sad Puppies, GamerGate, Gay Marriage, Black Lives Matter, and the Confederate Flag.

  “Okay,” you’re saying, “That’s the most click-baity title I’ve ever seen. He just stuffed it with hashtags.” Yeah, a little, but hear me out. It all comes together by the end, I promise. Over the weekend, I was fortunate to be one of the handful of survivors of the 73rd WorldCon in Spokane. Between the […]

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TRIDENT’S FORGE is Ready for Preorder!

  Hey folks! A couple of big bits of news today. The second book in the Children of a Dead Earth cycle, TRIDENT’S FORGE, is now available for preorder on Amazon. The release date of Feb 2nd is a little suspect, just so you know. Last I knew, it’ll be published sometime in April. If you’ve already […]

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On the Confederate Flag, Symbols, and Who Decides

The Confederate flag comes down in South Carolina 7/10/15 I had some quick thoughts about the Confederate flag controversy. I’ve heard a lot of otherwise reasonable and intelligent people claim that the flag means something other than slavery and racism to them. Southern heritage and pride comes up a lot, and no one is saying it’s […]

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Scott Walker: “God is Calling Me to Put a Democrat in the White House”

Yesterday afternoon, Wisconsin Governor and conservative icon Scott Walker launched his utterly doomed campaign for the Presidency of the United States. In a fundraising email sent out to supporters, Walker spoke at length about his Christian faith and how he came to decide to embark on the quixotic quest for the White House. “My relationship […]

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THE ARK is Boarding!

  Hey everyone. Well, here it is, the beginning of the self-promotion deluge. I’ll try to keep it to a dull roar. My debut, THE ARK, has just gone live for preorders. For those of you who aren’t neck deep in publishing industry stuff, a book’s preorders are a very important metric that publishers use when […]

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GenCon is Coming. Here’s Where I’ll Be

After a couple of years away and in the run-up to the November release of THE ARK, I’ll once again be making the trek to Indianapolis to participate in the wonderful GenCon Writer’s Symposium. If you’re unaware, the Symposium is one of the strongest and largest literary tracks at any convention in the country. It […]

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Covers Uncovered!

Over the weekend, while I was hanging out with a cadre of other Angry Robot authors and employees at CONvergence, the next big step in the roll out of my debut, THE ARK, took place. Over the last couple of months, photographer and digital artist Larry Rostant has been hard at work preparing cover art for both […]

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America. Fuck Yeah.

            It’s been a rough week for assholes. First, we all kinda realized that flying the flag of an enemy nation comprised of treasonous, slavery-defending jack wagons was a weird thing to be doing in 2015. Then the law which has already seen a thirty-five percent drop in the uninsured rate […]

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CONvergence 2015

Hey gang. Just a quick update. Next weekend, I’ll be joining dozens of other writers, editors, agents, and other publishing industry professionals in Bloomington, MN for CONvergence. If you’ve never been to this four day bender of reckless geeky hedonism, you’re missing out. We stuff about six thousand thirsty nerds into the Double Tree Hilton, […]

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Don’t Quit Your Day Job

Don’t quit your day job. As an author and aspiring comedian, it’s a refrain I hear constantly. Sometimes directed at my friends and colleagues, sometimes at me. Sometimes it’s sincere advice given by people who have already passed down these roads, know their perils, and know what it takes to walk the path successfully. But […]

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