I’ve still got the jones for writing inane thoughts in tweet form. Been doing it since 2008, so it’s hard to break a habit overnight. I went back online Sunday – fell off the wagon after only one week! - wrote a little father’s day thing on the book of Face…

Lately, I’ve been suffering from what I’ve been calling social media fatigue. Checking Facebook and Twitter have become near habitual, if not obsessive. I can’t explain why I’m always checking them because I get so little real enjoyment out of it. Most of my feeds are cluttered with writers and…

The other day, we narrowly averted a self-publishing kerfuffle on this blog. Today, the news has broken that Amazon.com and Warner Brothers have created a platform called “KINDLE WORLDS” for WB related fan-fiction to flourish. And be monetized. Here’s the press release. Honestly, I’m not surprised. Check it out. The…

  The Twelve-Fingered Boy gets reviewed by Cory Doctorow, author of For The Win, Little Brother, and Makers all of which he’s released with Creative Common licenses. Follow the links to read. He says, “…part Huck Finn, part X-Men. The scary stuff in this book — and there’s some really scary stuff here —…

I’ll be attending Book Expo America later this month. Here’s what I’ll be doing for that weekend. I’m sure I can fit some more stuff in there so if you know me, got my digits, give your boy a ring-a-ding, feel me? May 30th, Thursday Best of BEA II at…

This originally appeared on my old blog, The Bastardized Version. Recently, especially after yesterday’s post where we narrowly averted a self-publishing kerfuffle, I’ve been thinking about why artists keep striving despite the odds and I went back to read it. And, I must say, I was actually moved by something…

File this post under: FANTASY. And, per comments, TRADITIONAL PUBLISHING So, going by the title of this post, I can say right away that if you’re still unpublished you probably have a dayjob and there’s a good possibility that you have health benefits. So you got that going for you…

Kansas City, Kansas City here I come… So, thanks to the illustrious (and illustrative) John Picacio, artist extraordinaire, gentleman, and lover of fine scotch, I managed to get on the schedule at ConQuest in Kansas City. I think he put in a good word for me. If not, well, thanks…