Jane’s drawing of Vincent
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Video of me recording part of the audiobook for Of Noble Family
I’m in the studio this week to record Of Noble Family. I’ve been wanting to show you what the recording process is like, but that requires getting permission from the author. Since I wrote this book… So, Dustin Anderson, my engineer/director, and I set up a Google On Air and recorded us doing the first chapter
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My Favorite Bit: Harry Connolly talks about THE GREAT WAY
Harry Connolly is joining us today with his epic fantasy series The Great Way. Here’s the publisher’s description. BOOK ONE OF THE GREAT WAY: The city of Peradain is the heart of an empire built with steel, spears,and a monopoly on magic… until, in a single day, it falls, overthrown by a swarm of supernatural creatures of
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The view outside the window…
Man… there were a ton of good suggestions, but the theme of winter kept coming up so… Here’s what’s outside the window.
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Make a suggestion. What should be out the window in this drawing?
What you have here is a drawing that I did on my new tablet. It’s actually been a really long time since I’ve drawn. I mean I was an art major, back in the day, but that was 25 years ago. But this new tablet, see, it has a touch sensitive stylus. So… I started
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For those of you reading along… Chapter 20 is up
For those reading along with Ghost Talkers, Chapter 20 is up. For everyone else, here is a random photo of the last day of our Christmas decorations. We keep our Christmas cards in the typewriters. Thrilling. I know.
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I’m teaching a free writing workshop in Ferguson, MO on Jan 24.
Everyone has a story they want to tell, whether that’s from fiction or from part of your life. As I’ve been watching the news roll out from Ferguson and then in waves across the nation, I’ve been struck by how much grass-roots reporting has differed from the mainstream media narrative. While facts and data are important,
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My Favorite Bit: Kristi Charish talks about OWL AND THE JAPANESE CIRCUS
Kristi Charish is joining us today with her novel Owl and the Japanese Circus. Here’s the publisher’s description. Fans of Kim Harrison, Jim Butcher, and Linda Hamilton will flock to the kick-ass world of Owl, a modern-day “Indiana Jane” who reluctantly navigates the hidden supernatural world. Ex-archaeology grad student turned international antiquities thief, Alix—better known now
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This post! I’m promoting it, even though I’ve been told it’s tacky to self-promote.
If you are reading this post, right now, it is because I promoted it. There is another copy of this post on my site, nearly identical, except that I didn’t promote it other than just posting it. It doesn’t take looking at the traffic numbers to figure out which one more people will read. [Edited
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For those reading along, Ghost Talkers chapter 19 is up
The latest chapter is up, and I was right about splitting the one I was working on in two. Which means I’m still two chapters from the end. Y’all are four chapters from the end, because of how far ahead of you I write. Meanwhile, for everyone else, here’s Sadie and Marlowe. I know you’re
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My Favorite Bit: David B. Coe talks about SPELL BLIND
David B. Coe is joining us today with his novel Spell Blind. Here’s the publisher’s description. Book #1 in The Case Files of Justis Fearsson, a new contemporary fantasy series from fantasy all-star David B. Coe. A hardboiled, magic-using private detective hunts a serial killer in Phoenix, Arizona. Justis Fearsson is a private investigator on the trail
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Ghost Talkers Chapter 18 is up.
For those of you reading along, I’ve posted the next chapter in Ghost Talkers. I just finished chapter 20 and am two or three chapters from the end. The reason I’m not quite sure is that the next chapter might split into two. We’ll see as I write it. If it gets unwieldy, I’ll find a
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My Favorite Bit: Jim C. Hines talks about UNBOUND
Jim C. Hines is joining us today with his novel Unbound. Here’s the publisher’s description. For five hundred years, the Porters have concealed the existence of magic from the world. Now, old enemies have revealed the Porters’ secrets, and an even greater threat lurks in the shadows. The would-be queen Meridiana, banished for a thousand years,
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Writing Excuses’s 10th season is a masterclass. (Plus Mary’s homework)
This week on Writing Excuses, we’re kicking off a new structure, a masterclass in fiction. Here, I’ll let you read the description. Season 10 begins! We wanted to do something different this year. Something special. As we brainstormed we kept returning to something a listener said years ago: “Writing Excuses is like a master class in writing
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For those reading along, Ghost Talkers 17 is up. For everyone else, a cat pawprint in the snow.
For those of you reading along, Chapter 17 is up. For everyone else, here is an entirely unrelated photo of Sadie’s pawprint in the snow. She headed for the front porch, put one foot down, and then thought better of it.