• Live Free or Die Slowly

    Live Free or Die Slowly

    Look, I like Bruce Willis as much as the next man.  Possibly more.  No, not that much, little less.  That’s it.  About that much. And I love, Die Hard.  The original one.  No, more than that.  Way more.  Yeah, that much. I’ve gone on elsewhere...

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  • A nice little find

    A nice little find

    In browsing the interwebs today, I discovered that Warren Ellis, one of the most interesting men working in comics today, has started doing a daily strip on his site.  It’s called Scatterlands, is illustrated by Jason Howard, and is so far a bit of science...

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  • No Hero series update (or, “Where are the books?”)

    No Hero series update (or, “Where are the books?”)

    So a few people have noticed that it’s become very hard to get a hold of No Hero and Yesterday’s Hero. They’re gone from Amazon and Barnes and Noble, and pretty much everywhere else. Some other people, who are especially nice, have asked about a...

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  • The book giveaway – crunching the numbers

    The book giveaway – crunching the numbers

    So it’s about two weeks now since Yesterday’s Hero launched, and a week since the giveaway for it and No Hero ended. Perhaps a little early for a complete post mortem, but I thought I’d give an early read out on the effects of the...

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  • One for the process junkies

    One for the process junkies

    I’ve always been a writing process junky.  I love having a process.  I love reading about other people’s process.  Really it’s kind of unhealthy, and probably involves more palm sweat than people are really comfortable with.  In an attempt to maintain a credible presence in...

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  • On self-publishing

    On self-publishing

    First off – the giveaway at Wired is all done. The books are up at both Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Just $3.99 at both sites. iBooks is turning out to be a bit trickier than I’d expected. I’m working on it. And now… content:...

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