I’ve been reading and writing since I was four years old—not just “writing my name” and “reading road signs,” but reading and writing stories. I was the kid who pulled the books off the shelf as soon as he could learn to walk, and I started working my way through The post The Write Stuff 2026: New Book! appeared first on .
At long last, I am proud to present you with the ninth Clarke Lantham Mystery, the twistiest, darkest, funniest, and most terrifying Lantham yet! When work follows you home Book 9 of The Clarke Lantham Mysteries Nothing completes a long, hot summer day like a little kidnapping, as Clarke Lantham The post Behind the Hypnotic Toad appeared first on .
A lot of you reading this are writers, or want to be. You believe that, somewhere down inside, there’s a novel or fifty just waiting to bust out. In my decade-plus hosting The Every Day Novelist (currently on hiatus, but still available) I got to talk to hundreds-to-thousands of people The post Making Tracks and Taking Names appeared first on .
Tales of Horror and Delight Between the timeless night that bounds our opening and closing curtains there stretches an all-too-brief parade of adventures, loves, ambitions, mistakes, triumphs, capers, madnesses, and failures. The Earth, too, basks in sunlight burning briefly in an endless darkness, and on her face are played out The post Lost Days, Last Nights appeared first on .
Time moves fast. You start writing in earnest in your early twenties, and before you know it you look around and you realize that you’re creeping up on fifty. It’s enough to make you want to move to a deeper gravity well just to stretch things out a bit. But The post 50 by 50 Challenge appeared first on .
We were heading over the highest, most treacherous mountain pass in the state. The road hugged steep hillsides on the right, and—at least in the more hospitable stretches—rode the edge of a sixty-foot ravine on the left. The snow was already thick on the road. It was falling fast enough The post Deep Breath appeared first on .
ArtisticWhispers Productions presents Open Vistas An anthology series exploring the vast horizons of human possibility, from the great plains to the great galaxies, from the grubby hands to the clenched fists to the grasping claws, from slashing swords to sparkling starships, from the grime and muck of the stable to The post Open Vistas: Immortality* (Some Assembly Required) appeared first on .
ArtisticWhispers Productions presents Open Vistas An anthology series exploring the vast horizons of human possibility, from the great plains to the great galaxies, from the grubby hands to the clenched fists to the grasping claws, from slashing swords to sparkling starships, from the grime and muck of the stable to The post Swords In Space! appeared first on .
Who are these people who keep the streets and castles clean? Who builds the weapons and rivet the warships? Who shear the sheep (or the griffins) whose fur makes the clothing of the arctic adventurers? Who catch the plesiosaurs that feed the pirates who sail the twelve seas of Arcturus Three? Who clean the oxygen recycling systems on the Lunar Base? The post Iron, Fire, Muck, and Sludge appeared…
ArtisticWhispers Productions presents: Open Vistas An anthology series exploring the vast horizons of human possibility, from the great plains to the great galaxies, from the grubby hands to the clenched fists to the grasping claws, from slashing swords to sparkling starships, from the grime and muck of the stable to The post After the Peak appeared first on .
It’s cold outside. This is an important fact in my corner of the universe, as I have spent the bulk of the past two weeks sleeping in a car in the snow because of a dream. The summer I turned fifteen I worked at a summer camp as a maintenance The post On Dreams and Their Worth appeared first on .
Travis J. Corocan author of the Aristillus series, a feat which has won him the prestigious Prometheus award twice so far. He’s also the mind behind Escape the City, the indispensable guide to adapting to rural life after growing up smack dab in the hustle and bustle. I sent him The post Prometheus Award Winning Love for The Secrets of the Heinlein Juvenile appeared first on .
Over the last month, I ve been running a Kickstarter campaign to fund publication of my new nonfiction book The Secrets of the Heinlein Juvenile, the world s first in-depth study of what are arguably (depending on how you define your terms) the twelve most influential books in science fiction history. It s The post More Praise for Secrets of the Heinlein Juvenile appeared first on .
Terry Mixon, host of the Dead Robot’s Society and bestselling author of the Empire of Bones Saga, gives his take on The Secrets of the Heinlein Juvenile When Dan asked me to review The Secrets of the Heinlein Juvenile, I leaped at the chance. Robert Heinlein was one of the The post Terry Mixon and the Heinlein Juveniles appeared first on .
I’ve been silent here for far too long, because I’ve been working my ass off elsewhere, but some of you kindly souls actually come by my blog and subscribe to alerts, and since the blog series I’ve got planned for later this year won’t start until well, later this year, I The post Notes From the Edge of Civilization appeared first on .
This is a preview for a new series will be a Substack exclusive, so click here to sign up now. A fortress once stood upon a stately hill just ahead of an ancient glacier, frozen in its tracks. The ice did not intrude into the valley below the fortress. The The post Surfing the Ground Beneath Our Feet appeared first on .
This is the latest post in my New Year’s Series. While it can be understood on its own, it assumes a certain amount of familiarity with the background material built up over the last few years. You can find last year’s post, which recaps a lot of this material, here: The post The Great Flappening appeared first on .
Those of you who follow my series The Unfolding World (often these are New Year s Posts) will know that I ve been talking in big terms about What Comes Next for the US and the world. I ve said we d better hold our nerve and that, if we do, we re going to The post Guides to The Great Unraveling appeared first on .
Hullo everyone! I m in a new bundle, probably the most ridiculously reader-friendly bundle I ve ever seen. You really can t beat it 28 Young Adult Adventure books for a name-your-price price, with the lion s share of all proceeds going to Mighty Writers, a charity dedicated to teaching disadvantaged kids to think and The post A Massive New Bundle To Ease Your Quarantine Woes! appeared first on .
Every year, I mark the New Year The post The Abyss Stares Back appeared first on .
This post is also on the podcast feed as an audio file. It s pretty sweet. Give it a listen 🙂 Download Subscribe Hello! It s been a while. The world is changing, and so is the status quo here at AWP, and that means that there s news on the Antithesis podcast The post Major Antithesis Update: The Long Road Back appeared first on .
I have to confess, I m in love. Five years ago a full two years after I wrote Suave Rob s Double-X Derring-Do Dave Robison found Rob s voice and brought him to life. Because of Dave s performance, Suave Rob infected my soul, and within a couple months, Suave Rob s Rough-n-Ready Rugrat Rapture burst upon The post Suave Rob s Hat Trick! appeared first on .
Down From Ten has been on my mind a lot, lately. A lot of reasons for it, I suspect, but the biggest one might be scenes like this: I d like to claim that I m waiting out the Era of the Jackpot in a secure undisclosed location, but the truth is The post The Dusty Office (Kabrakan/Antithesis Day 1125) appeared first on .
My apologies to regular readers who come around here for the creativity and not the politics. Please skip this post if you are not interested in a powerfully worded opinion. Buckets of digital ink have already been spilt online over the debacle of FOTSA and SESTA and the seizure of The post The World s Oldest Honorable Profession appeared first on .
Spring is here! Spring is here! Tom Lehrer s singing of skittles and beer! Okay, so it s not springtime yet, but the last few days have seen some remarkably spring-y weather, which is a fantastic mood-lifter here in the Pacific Northwest. I m now deep into recording the audiobook for the soon-to-be-released The post Ground Effect (Kabrakan/Antithesis Day 745) appeared first on .
Today marked one of the great transitions. I closed out the last of the big client contracts that I m performing audiobooks for, which means that I can get back to work on reading my own books and more importantly writing my own books. I ve discovered that living in other people s books as The post Solid Ground (Kabrakan/Antithesis Day 739) appeared first on .
Note: This is my annual New Year s post where I think out loud about the trendlines of history and what the future might hold. It touches on economics, geopolitics, war, and history. If these things don t interest you, move along now before things get interesting or, uninteresting, as the case may The post The Era of the Jackpot appeared first on .
This morning, I woke up to snow and everything that comes with it: Icy roads, changing plans, deep-bone aches from the cold and wonder. When you don t grow up in the stuff, it doesn t matter how many times the snow ruins your day, it s still magical. So, after running Trixie The post Still Dreaming appeared first on .
Twenty-seventeen is almost gone. The bright days are behind us, the dark days in front of us. The time has come to huddle around the fireplace or the Christmas tree, the Yule log, the Menorah, or, in extremis, a can of sterno with a good book or ten and savor the darkness The post Christmas Cheer; Sweet, Weird, and Dark appeared first on .
I originally wrote this review in 2013 for the UK release of the book in question. I am re-posting it here, because the book has now been issued in the United States. The American title is Sex, Lies, and Statistics while the British issue was called The Sex Myth. Having The post Review: Sex, Lies, and Statistics by Brooke Magnanti appeared first on .
During this year s sputtering and hectic and terrifyingly heat-soaked summer (which, thankfully, was relatively devoid of hurricanes), I managed to do some work, in fits and starts, on what is now Book 2 of The Big Series. The Orinthal Deception has full possession of my brain now (at least when The post Stuck in the Mud (Kabrakan/Antithesis Day 606) appeared first on .
In today s edition of Dan s Nutty Life Story, we bring you an educational resource, a book review, a cute puppy picture, and a cover reveal (not necessarily in that order). Oh boy oh boy oh boy, it was a hot one today. Third day in a row when it was The post Briggs Defection Cover Reveal! (Kabrakan/Antithesis Day 476) appeared first on .
One Down. Five to go. And hot damn does it feel good to say that. I must apologize for my delinquency I utterly failed in my journalistic duty to document the progress of this book over the last month, when I have actually been writing every day. I found myself over-scheduled, The post Book 1? Check (Antithesis/Kabrakan Day 475) appeared first on .
Hi Everyone! Sorry for my silence the last couple days. I actually have been writing, but I haven t had time to do blog posts, because I ve been buried in a rotating gamut of five things: Recording Reading Writing Rithmatic Well, not arithmetic especially, but compliance. Lots of verifying records The post Blogging Kabrakan/Antithesis, Day 435-438 appeared first on .
Every month, you will find a new free short story here for your reading pleasure after which, it will diminish to a sample. For April 2017, I m proud to present you with The Open Source Woman, the first in what may become a series of hardSF tales examining life in a The post Free Fiction: The Open Source Woman appeared first on .
Yesterday, I promised you an update on the other book I read cover-to-cover this week. It was one that like the Iles books I ve been raving about the last few months dragged me straight through in one sitting (well, okay, one and a half). This one wasn t Greg Iles, though, but another The post Blogging Kabrakan/Antithesis, Day 434 appeared first on .
Hello and greetings and updates from the road! Growing up in the San Francisco area, I learned to hate humidity. Going to the east coast or the south or the midwest meant growing a set of gills. How things change! After two years on the Oregon coast, now that I m The post Blogging Kabrakan/Antithesis, Day 431-433 appeared first on .
The first of many new audio releases for me this year, last month s Lombard Alchemist story Pick A Card is now available as an audiobook. On a trip to visit his ailing grandfather, 17-year-old Peter meets a magician who claims to know how to grant Peter s dearest wish: to perform The post Pick a Card Available in Audio! appeared first on .
During the first week every month, you will find a new free short story here for your reading pleasure after which, it will diminish to a sample. For March 2017, I m proud to present you with Pick A Card, my newest Lombard Alchemist tale. Creepy, dark, and filled with macabre laughs The post Free Fiction: Pick A Card appeared first on .
For the last few years (with the exception of one I missed, IIRC), I ve been writing New Years posts that have explicitly pushed back against the grouchy gloom and pessimism that seems to obtain everywhere, left right and center. Why would I do this? First, because it s true. The world The post Time To Hold Your Nerve appeared first on .
Well, here we are, at the end of the year, and all things, good and bad, do close out at the end. Some of them, like the calendar, roll over and renew. Others will be gone forever. Some of those things we might bid good riddance, but some of them well, The post Last Chance For Cool Writing Stuff! appeared first on .
2016 isn t the only thing winding up this week. This week officially marks the end of two other big events here at my secret headquarters on the Oregon Coast. Firstly, we are now in the final days of the NaNoWriMo Writing Tools bundle. If you re a writer (or know a The post Ending the Year With A Bang appeared first on .
More action-packed days here in the back of beyond! The last few days my attention has been divided between finding ways to get enough exercise amid sporadic (but severe) rainstorms and working to get back on track with my writing. And it s working. I m up a goodly amount in the The post Blogging Antithesis/Kabrakan, Day 296 appeared first on .
The long silence is long and over! My last week, alas, got largely eaten up by the election. I have a bad habit of LOVING watching political turmoil unfold as a student of history, geopolitics, and the philosophies of governance, the end of the election season basically tripped me for five days. The post Blogging Kabrakan/Antithesis, Day 293 appeared first on .
Quick update today, as it s late and I m utterly knackered. I recovered (finally!) from the Illness of Doom this afternoon and got myself unleashed on the podosphere again (got a whole new set of Every Day Novelist episodes up). Got this month s Free Fiction up please do go enjoy, it s one The post Blogging Kabrakan/Antithesis, Day 278 appeared first on .
A Lombard Alchemist Tale J. Daniel Sawyer IT WAS ALISTON HAYES S considered opinion that there were very few occasions that the right hat could not improve. Hats added a sense of festiveness to any occasion, even if the occasion was solemn. Once in high school someone had explained to her The post Free Fiction: Funeral Hats appeared first on .
Back when I was writing Silent Victor, book 4 in my Clarke Lantham Mystery series (the stories all stand alone feel free to pick up any one that looks interesting in order to sample them!) I discovered, in the middle of the novel, that there was a book missing in the The post Blogging Kabrakan/Antithesis, Day 274 appeared first on .
Well, I ve been off the writing wagon for almost three weeks the first with a cold that just won t quit, the second due to a really bitchin conference in between where I spoke on audio production and podcasting, and then a third week where I either relapsed or picked up some The post Blogging Kabrakan/Antithesis, Day 272 appeared first on .
This morning I took the pup out for a hike in the local rainforest, which is filled with mushrooms, mosses, cedars, marshes, and little items thine these berries here. About an hour into the walk, I got hit with a tickle in my sinuses, at which point I realized I The post Down in the Rainforest appeared first on .
Another stormy day here. Lots of hard driving rain and wind. Far too stormy for a proper walk outside, at least so far. It takes a few weeks to acclimatize to the sudden season changes, though if this keeps up tomorrow I m going to have to bundle up and take The post Blogging Kabrakan/Antithesis, Day 252 appeared first on .