I’ve received an affirmative from Del Rey/Lucasarts/Bioware to post an excerpt from my forthcoming Star Wars novel, Deceived.  As you know, the novel ties-in to the forthcoming MMORPG, The Old Republic, from Lucasarts/Bioware.

The  excerpt features in prose a scene you’ll recognize from the first cinematic trailer.  Here, you get a sense of  Malgus as a man.  Note, this has not been copyedited and copyright belongs to the holder, all rights reserved, blah … Read the rest

My editor at Wizards of the Coast, Phil Athans, had his position eliminated yesterday.  You can read his announcement here.

Phil does not seem angry about this, so I suppose I  shouldn’t get angry either.  But I am.  From the outside, this looks to me like another dimwitted, short-sighted decision by corporate flunkies.  That’s all I want to say about that.

The point of this post is to say that I’ve been lucky to … Read the rest

The post title is misleading, because there are no reviews for my 40K word short story collection, Ephemera. The book is, however, selling reasonably well, which means people have bought it and presumably read it.   If you’re one off those people, and have any feelings about what you read, the saints would sing Hosanna if you were to share them in a review on Amazon.

All right, maybe not the saints.  But I, at … Read the rest

Last night on Twitter I was able to reveal that Riptide is the title to the sequel to Crosscurrent.  I hope you like it.

Initially, I wanted to go with something containing “cross” but couldn’t come up with something everyone liked.  So I tried to find something containing “current,” but had the same problem.  Finally I hit upon Riptide and everyone seemed to like that.  I liked it, too, because it suggested a dangerous, … Read the rest

I’m hoping to get approval in July to begin posting excerpts from Deceived, my Star Wars novel set in the The Old Republic.  But in the meantime, I thought I’d  post the Dramatis Personae for the novel.  There are four core characters (these four are either point of view characters, or characters with a lot of  screen time) and several important, but non-core characters.

The Core Characters

Darth Malgus, male human Sith lord.… Read the rest

I’m participating in an interactive interview at Loremaster.org.  What does that mean?  That means that you ask me questions on an ongoing basis and I then deceive, inveigle, and obfuscate (X-files  reference for the uninitiated) instead of answering.  Good times!

So pop on over and throw up a question or just read along.  Should be fun.  Thanks to Matt James and the Loremaster crew for inviting me over and setting it up.… Read the rest

Many books are published each year and the vast, vast majority never make much of a ripple.  They hit shelves, get a review or three, sell under 10K copies, and go out of print.  Yet lots of them are well-written in one respect or another.  I can think of a few that have even had a reasonably strong marketing push behind them, and yet still found only a small audience.  Why did they fail to … Read the rest

My friend and editor with Wizards of the Coast, Phil Athans, has interviewed me at his blog, The Fantasy Author’s Handbook. The interview is an expanded version of some questions Phil sent me while he was drafting his forthcoming book, The Guide to Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction: 6 Steps to Writing and Publishing Your Bestseller!.

Take a look at that picture with me and the boys at Disney. Riordan looks like he’s thinking: … Read the rest

Today The Erevis Cale Trilogy Omnibus is released to wreak havoc on bookstores everywhere.  Watch your backs, peeps.

The Omnibus contains the three novels of The Erevis Cale Trilogy (Twilight Falling, Dawn of Night, and Midnight’s Mask) together with two related short stories, “All the Sinners Saints,” and “Soulbound.”

If you’re a longtime fan of Cale’s stories, I hope you’ll consider picking this up. The books is (not to put too … Read the rest

My second Star Wars novel, Deceived, will be released on December 28th in both hardcover and audio format.   This will be the first time one of my novels has received audio book treatment and I’m kinda-sorta nervous about it.

Writing is (obviously) a very personal, and necessarily private/solitary endeavor, but it’s VERY much so for me.  I internalize the entire process and nothing gets out until I’m done.  I don’t use beta readers.  … Read the rest