Many of you have read my Seavy County stories over the years. You might even have noticed they were set in a fictional part of the Oregon Coast. Or maybe you just thought I wrote a lot of Oregon Coast stories. (I do.) I put them in a made-up part of the coast because I […]
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Strange things happen in the woods behind Seavy Village. As little boys, Scott and Richard went into those woods and managed to get pictures. Those pictures became famous and ruined their childhood. Decades later, Richard dies in those woods. At the urging of Richard’s daughter, Scott investigates—and finds something even stranger than anyone expected. “Blind” […]
Continue ReadingI’ve been doing a lot of experimentation with short video. Sometimes I add audio, but every now and then I do something that’s imagery and text. I’ve done that here, with the video I did for Dean Wesley Smith’s current Kickstarter campaign. There was simply too much information to cram into a talky video, so […]
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…in the brand-new Kickstarter that just launched. It features my bestselling novel, Alien Influences, which The New York Times calls “a well conceived, well executed novel,” my award-winning novella, Broken Windchimes, and a brand-new collection of my science fiction stories, called Strange People, Stranger Places. In addition, you can get all 28 Diving books in ebook format or more […]
Continue Reading…and here’s the video. I just finished it. As you can tell, I had a blast doing it. If you want to be notified at the time of launch, click here. I’ll have more information for you on Tuesday. Stay tuned!
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Dean Wesley Smith and I just launched a brand new Kickstarter for our Detectives Collide project. Several years ago, Kickstarter began a fun January promotion called “Make 100.” The idea was to put together 100 of something and create a Kickstarter for it. So, of course, Dean and I figured out ways to put together […]
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Today’s the final day to join my Four Science Fiction Novellas Kickstarter. We hit our ask and all of our stretch goals. What does that mean for you? It means that if you back the Kickstarter at the $20 level or above, you’ll get the four novellas (two of which are award finalists and one […]
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I have a lot of news, and some of it is buried inside this Kickstarter that just went live. You see…due to the intransigence of the new owners at the sf digest magazines (as well as the mystery magazines), I can no longer send them my short fiction. I actually had to pull some stories […]
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Here’s something fun. My award-nominated novella, “Maelstrom,” is in a Storybundle with eight other space opera ebooks. It may look like there’s only eight books here, but really, there are entire series bundled into some of these ebooks. You can get them all with a simple click. But they go away in about 48 hours. […]
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I read a lot of books in January, but don’t have as many to recommend as I would have thought. I started one bestseller’s novel and quit because I knew exactly where it was going. (I glanced ahead, and yep. On rails.) I read another and was quite irritated because it didn’t do anything new […]
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