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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. [...]

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 [...]

I am actually still alive.  Thanksgiving did us in.  We have too many family in the area, so Turkey Day stretched over two and a half days with multiple events, endless prep,  cleaning, and moaning on the couch with too many croissants in my belly… and my experience is that if I lose three days [...]

Okay, so we’ve got a fun laundry list of developments this week:
1) If you live in the Bay Area, I have a local book signing on Friday, May 21st, starting at 7pm at Bay Books in Concord. We’ll be answering any questions you have about the Plague Year trilogy like “What really happened [...]

Today we have a shotgun blast of small good bits of news!
First, my short story “Long Eyes” is a part of Pyr Books’ prestigious new Fast Forward 2 anthology, which hits stores this week. A far-future space adventure, “Long Eyes” may be the most “sci fi” story I’ll ever write, and it’s [...]

More good news from afar. My novelette “The Frozen Sky” remains my favorite of all my short fiction (it’s dark and freaky!) and it’s well on its way to becoming my most successful, too. This week “Sky” was bought by the Czech sf/f magazine Pevnost, where it will run in their October issue. [...]