Important things to pay attention to in 2019.
Business Musings: Sales People, Hype Machines, Big Fish, And The Music Man
Sometimes I think the best preparation I had for the business of writing was marrying (and then divorcing) a man who could talk anyone into anything. He liked sales and he was always the best salesperson in the room…in the beginning. But his sales dwindled over time, because his early sales were based on hype, and his customers would eventually realize it. They wouldn’t come […]
Business Musings: Blip or New Reality?
A lot of times on this blog, I deal with the problems in publishing. Bad problems, like agents embezzling, traditional publishers not paying royalties, income going down, or sales not up to expectations. In the early days of indie publishing, I would also blog about the problems of success. In our workshops and classes, we call them problems you trade up for. Just because a […]
A New SF Story
Part of the tribute issue for former editor Gardner Dozois, “Transport” is a standalone sf story. Go here for your copy.
A Brand New Diving Novel
A New Edition of A Dangerous Road
For book clubs and reading groups, complete with questions! Go here to order.
The Author-Preferred Edition of FantasyLife
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…with the novella that started it all, Diving Into The Wreck.Neil Clarke’s latest, Final Frontier. You can read it and lots of other wonderful space opera in
A New Adventure SF Story
Read “Once On The Blue Moon,” along with some other wonderful fiction in Jonathan Strahan’s newest Infinity anthology.
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A New Kris Nelscott Novel
My latest Kris Nelscott novel begins a new series, following the adventures of three strong women as they protect their world, one person at a time. A crime novel set in 1969. Available in ebook, trade paper, hardback, and limited edition. For more information, click here.
Best Mystery Stories of The Year!
“The heroine of Kristine Kathryn Rusch’s ‘Christmas Eve at the Exit’ struggles to make the holiday meaningful for her 10-year-old daughter while the pair are on the run….There isn’t enough Xanax in anyone’s medicine cabinet to calm the jitters these 20 skillful stories will unleash on a worried world.” —Kirkus