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One of the best parts of my job is meeting book people — readers, reviewers, book store employees, and book store owners.
In February 2008, skiing somewhere along the Continental Divide, Diana and I took a side trip to Leadville, Colorado, a beautiful, isolated mountain town upon which I’d visited 600,000 starving refugees and [...]

My e-sales on BN.com and iPad are no great shakes. The vast majority of my success has been on Kindle. Thinking I’d try a little shake-and-bake to pep things up, I decided to lower the price of the Long Eyes collection to 99c for a week.
No sooner had I made this move — I mean [...]

My story “Planet of the Sealies” in is the current issue of Pevnost Magazine in the Czech Republic under its new, slightly incomprehensible title “Planeta Skokoanku.”
Awesome!
As usual, the super geniuses at Pevnost have done a nice job with the lay-out and an interior illustration. I only wish I could read it. [...]

You would not want to meet Trent Mahler in a dark alley if he was a bad guy. It would be like running into Dr. Bruce Banner when he was angry… i.e., the Hulk! Fortunately, Trent is a good kid.
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Happy New Year! I’ve been sitting on some of this while contracts were finalized. Now seems like a good time to feast your eyeballs.
First, my story “Planet of the Sealies” will be appearing in the Dutch anthology Horizon 3.
Would you want to be the little astronaut down in the corner or [...]

“Christmas With The Zombies” from Jessie Smith, who also has a popular and totally inappropriate adult song here…
You know how I like inappropriateness. But be warned!

Late as usual! But here as promised is the afterword for one of my more disturbing stories…
The technology is dated now, but people still use cameras with film, and I continue to see photo processing departments in drug stores.
“Pattern Masters” is one of two stories I wrote before [...]

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As promised, this week I’m posting another afterword for the next story in “Long Eyes,” but be warned! This one is especially, tantalizingly full of spoilers!
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Like a lot of my stories, “Planet of the Sealies” began with the setting. First I had [...]

Forgot to add this “story trailer”…

As promised, today I’m posting the afterword from Long Eyes for my story “Pressure.” The freaky artwork is by the talented Billy Tackett and reproduced here (and in the book!) with permission.
Always one of my most successful stories, “Pressure” has been translated into four languages and appeared twice as podcasts on EscapePod and [...]