Halloween’s over, and so is Daylight Savings Time. I’m already seeing ads for Black Friday specials, and those sales won’t happen for another 27 days. People love to experience the season, and they love to read about the season. Holiday books always come out early enough for folks to read while the cookies bake and […]
Continue ReadingToday’s the official publication day of Skirmishes, the fourth Diving universe book. You can now get the book on all platforms. You can find it in your favorite bookstore or order it in trade paper from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other online stores. You can also get the ebook in all e-retailers from Amazon to Kobo […]
Continue ReadingAs of this writing, my novel Snipers has been out a little over a month, and it’s received stellar reviews. Booklist gave it a starred review, and others have given it all kinds of kudos. Here’s a sampling: “Told in roughly alternating chapters set in 1913 and 2005, [Snipers] is a deft mixture of SF and mystery […]
Continue ReadingRead a fun middle-grade novel this month, and realized that while I had loved, loved, loved the first book in the series, the second disappointed—not because it was worse than the first. It might have been better. It disappointed because half the fun of the first (from an adult perspective) was the riff the novel […]
Continue ReadingToo much news to keep up with on these pages, but I’ll do my best. WMG Publishing is providing two different free fiction pieces every week. One is a serialization of my novel, Spree. The third installment hit today. All the previous chapters will remain on the site, so you can catch up if you’re behind. The […]
Continue ReadingI have a new short story out in Jonathan Strahan’s Edge of Infinity anthology. There are lots of great writers in here, and I’m happy to be among them. I’ve only just started reading, but I can already tell you that the introduction itself is worth the price of admission. So take a peek at Edge of […]
Continue ReadingIt’s official! The next Retrieval Artist novel, Blowback, is out in all formats. The reviews so far have been wonderful. RT Book Reviews says: “Rusch offers up a well-told mystery with interesting characters and a complex, riveting storyline that includes a healthy dose of suspense, all building to an ending that may not be what it appears.” […]
Continue ReadingI initially started this list because I was no longer editing, and I wanted to recommend what I’m reading to you. I’m editing again in a limited capacity for Fiction River, and I’m reading some marvelous stories. You’ll have to see those, especially the ones in the volumes that list me as editor (not just […]
Continue ReadingPaula Guran’s holiday anthology, Season of Wonder, has a spectacular cover and even more spectacular names. In here, you can find holiday stories by science fiction and fantasy’s best, from Harlan Ellison to Connie Willis to the greatly missed Janet Kagan. I’m lucky enough to have a story in here too. As you can tell from […]
Continue ReadingI generally post my recommended reading list a month or three after I’ve done the reading. Which means that all of the holiday stories that I read get recommended in January or February. Last year, I decided to do a compilation of past holiday recommends so that you can get them for the appropriate season, […]
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