I recently listened to the audio version of Audrey Niffenegger’s The Time Traveler’s Wife. The book was on my radar for a long time: some of my own readers saw parallels between Niffenegger’s handling of a relationship interrupted by time travel and my own Take Back Tomorrow, so I kept hearing about the book, but…
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When I released my cyberpunk dystopia Strictly Analog in 2012, I used a cover designed by a friend with a lot of experience in graphic arts. The book is a near-future noir-style mystery about a private detective who’s locked out of the high tech world he inhabits because of physical disabilities. As such, he exists…
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Last week, I had the good fortune to stumble onto Emma Donoghue being interviewed on Michael Silverblatt’s “Book Worms” show on KCRW. I’m generally not a reader of historical novels, but I’d seen a review of Donoghue’s latest book Frog Music: A Novel in a magazine a couple weeks back, and so I got sucked…
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Recently, a reader posted a very nice review of Strictly Analog at Amazon, commenting on how the book had a tighter plot than most indie novels and that it was better than most books published by the Big 5 publishers. What remarkable praise. It feels great to read something like that about one of my…
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A couple of weeks back, I assigned Harlan Ellison’s “‘Repent, Harlequin,’ Said the Ticktockman” in my Science Fiction class. As I was getting ready for class, I pulled up a couple of clips from Erik Nelson’s brilliant Ellison documentary, Dreams with Sharp Teeth, just to give my students a better sense of the writer. The…
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There’s a LOT of marketing advice out there for indie writers, and I’ve read a lot of it. Many of the posts and pages that promise to let you in on the Secret to Making the Bestseller Lists are just rehashes of the same ol’ same ol’ advice–have a platform, use social media, be giving,…
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Time Travel–Pulp Fiction Style Take Back Tomorrow is available as a FREE download for a limited time. Romance, mystery, pulp fiction, unscrupulous writers, and even more unscrupulous publishers….oh, and Time Travel, too. It’s all there in Take Back Tomorrow 44 Amazon Reviews with an average 4.5 stars. “Raymond Chandler meets Robert Heinlein in this fun…
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I’m working on my next book–kind of feverishly at this point, hoping to get through the next round of edits before the serious work of my day job starts coming in. The latest book, though, isn’t exactly the newest one I’ve written. It’s one that’s been just about done for some time now and has…
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So there I was, sitting in the lobby at the Upland Martial Arts Center, watching my daughter (a green belt at the time), go through her forms when the karate-dad sitting next to me mentioned that he’d just put a novel up on Lulu. He’d had a couple of mysteries he’d written years before that…
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