• Excellent news!

    I am more than pleased to announce that Audible.com is going to be making audio books of the Path novels and the Crosspointe Chronicles. I’m so excited. I’m bouncing off the walls. I don’t have much else for you today.…

  • Graveyard Shift has a great post today on cop slang. Really great for writers. Bookmark it and remember. I got word today that it is now certain that Blood Winter will be the last Horngate book. The positive thing is…

  • The cutting room floor

    I finished the revisions of Blood Winter. Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on your perspective, I cut a whole lot and added a whole lot. At least half of the book is new. There’s a whole other blog post to be…

  • one for the OMG file

    I was Googling the Demon Lovers: Succubi antho, just to see if anyone had talked about it, and instead came across this, titled, Incubi and Succubi: Sexual Relations. It is, in a word, a primer on how to have sex…

  • Blood Winter snippet

    “Just because you’re winning don’t mean you’re the lucky one.” Guns N Roses Now the snippet: “Let’s get these bodies in the ground. Simon, go bring back the backhoe.” As the others obeyed, she and Alexander wandered around, accompanied by…

  • Ready, set, action!

    I’m working on the new first chapter for Blood Winter. One of the issues is how fast to get into the action. It used to be that you could get into action after a few pages or even a chapter.…

  • Blood Winter is done

    Yes that is right. It is done. It’s got rough edges, especially since I wrote more than half of it in the less than the last two weeks. Yes, that’s right. This is not my normal process, but I had…

  • I’m not dead yet!

    I know, I haven’t been here the past couple of days. I’ve been writing. Today I didn’t get nearly the words done that I wanted, but I got through a sticky scene. Very emotional. Especially important given some earlier stuff.…

  • And another Blood Winter snippet

    Yes, the writing proceeds well. And in honor of the flow, another snippet. Max is in trouble. Again. She looked down at herself. A complex pattern had been carved on her skin. There were strange letters and symbols overlapping in…