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Found this yesterday, an Amazon page for Plague Zone that lists the book’s release date as November 24th, quite an early pre-Thanksgiving publication for a December title. Also, apparently it’s 336 pages. Nobody tells me anything!

On Lou’s advice, I’m thinking about writing not at all anymore and, instead, twitting all day to expand my readership. Who will have nothing to read. But still, I’ll be exceedingly hip.

It’s been a good week. I’m nearly done with a brand new fun short story (a rarity for me) despite fighting a nasty sore throat-with-cough, hooray… and there’s been more excitement overseas. This is the cover of the April issue of Pevnost, the Czech Republic’s top genre magazine of horror, fantasy, and sci [...]

That’s right–I’m going to talk about BOOBIES! Whoo hoo! It’s sure to get me in trouble, but, hey, these are important issues.
First to the main topic at last: our Norwescon 32 Insider Report.
I’m not exactly Captain Con-Goer, but I have been to more than 10 writers’ and/or genre conventions, and here’s [...]

I still intend to bang out a more informative post about my wild adventures at Norwescon, but I’ve been obsessed with a final polish of Zone. You’d think it was the end of the world or something. Ha. The book is in my editor’s hands at last.
Off subject: I lost [...]

Yeah, I’m still alive. Probably I should have brought my laptop and made a post or three from the con. Lou Anders, the devil of technology himself, is in fact encouraging me to buy an iPhone so I can Twitter my happy thoughts live to the masses at all hours of [...]

This book is taking longer than I’d planned, mostly because it’s bigger than either Year or War. I’m still not late per editorial deadline (getting close!), but I have run three weeks longer than I’d planned by my own calendar. Partly that’s because I’m an obsessive, obsessive, obsessive maniac. Once it’s [...]

Most of you know I’m not much for fantasy. It just don’t speak to me. Magic is such a slippery thing, and the epic plots often drag. So it may surprise you that among my All-Time Best Library is The Gandalara Cycle, a seven-volume set of swashbuckling swords-and-sorcery. Why? [...]

Some good news today. My editor tells me Plague Year went to its fourth printing two months ago. Awesome! We’re still an exploding helicopter and an Angelina Jolie from the big leagues of bestsellerdom, but, hey, a fourth edition for a first novel paperback original ain’t no snail boogers, neither. [...]

I’ve been AWOL. For the past week I’ve been sweating through every line, nay, every *word* of PLAGUE ZONE again and again and again before it goes to the copyeditor, which is gruelling work, people. My brain is oatmeal.
In the meantime, the same friend has forwarded me another, even more excellent article on [...]