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The New Photo Contest….

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Published: November 27, 2023 05:59

Hey there everybody…. For those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving, I hope you had a good one this weekend. For those of you who *don’t* celebrate it, or who celebrate it at a different time (I’m looking at you, Canada) I hope you had a good time doing…

Numbers, Thanks, and Fancy Covers From the UK…

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Published: November 21, 2023 07:16

As I write this, the Narrow Road Between Desires has been published for six days. Not quite a week. I can’t remember if I’ve talked about it on the blog recently, but the first week of sales for a book are pretty important. It’s sort of similar to how…

Bookstores, Updates, Surprises, and One Last Chance….

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Published: November 17, 2023 02:26

Anecdotes, updates, and an opportunity that will be ending tomorrow...

Whyfore Art Thou? – An Interview With Nate Taylor

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Published: November 14, 2023 19:27

Well folks, it's release day. As I write this, The Narrow Road Between Desires is already (hopefully) on the shelves of your local bookstore.

Rejected Author’s Notes Part One: Beginnings and The Names of Things

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Published: November 13, 2023 06:20

Last night, I was going to post up a story about The Narrow Road Between Desires as a “review” over on goodreads. But logging in, I discovered there were already 200+ reviews on there. Nobody’s actually read the book yet, obviously. It won’t be published…

This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things…

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Published: November 10, 2023 03:26

A couple weeks ago, I talked about the upcoming audiobook, and how Recorded Books had made a movie-trailer style promotion for the upcoming audio release of The Narrow Road Between Desires. (I suppose it’s just a book trailer, isn’t it? Not a…

Everything Audiobook

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Published: October 26, 2023 19:42

Wait. What? What’s going on here? Is this some sort of glitch in the matrix? No. No it is not. I am, in fact, posting new blogs two days in a row. I’m also, by no small coincidence, running around like a chicken with my head cut off. This is actually a…

Postcards, Pre-orders, and the Quest for Imperfection

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Published: October 25, 2023 13:10

So over the last couple months, I’ve meant to write about two dozen different blogs. The upcoming book got a cover, for example: (As always, guest starring my thumb.) But I’m guessing by now you’ve already seen that. We have a UK cover too. There’s some…

New Novella – An announcement in Three Parts

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Published: May 18, 2023 17:59

Hey there everybody, Later this year, I’m publishing a new novella. In a lot of ways, it’s going to be similar to The Slow Regard of Silent Things. It’s set in Temerant. It’s going to be illustrated by the fabulous Nate Taylor, and it centers on one of the…

“…an odd, maundering aggregation of anecdotes and elegy.”

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Published: June 21, 2022 04:58

So there’s one day left on the kickstarter, and among the many stretch goals we’ve unlocked while bringing Digger back into print, was one where I said folks would get a sneak peek of the foreword. So I’m going to throw that up here today. But first, I…