Blog Tour Post on Conventions!
After a bit of a hiatus, the Summer 2013 Thieves’ Quarry Blog Tour is back with a post about conventions — specifically DragonCon (which I will be attending next week) and WorldCon. The post can be...
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Blog Tour, a New Review, and Giveaways
Today I’m visiting with my friend C.E. Murphy, who was kind enough to interview me for the Summer 2014 Plunder of Souls Blog Tour. And I want to draw your attention to a wonderful new review of A...
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Two Days on the Blog Tour
I was on the road yesterday, driving home from North Carolina after a fun and successful signing tour that began with a book launch party at ConGregate in Winston-Salem, and then took me to Rock Hill,...
View ArticleUpcoming Signings!!
So I’m about to begin a small signing tour, and I’m hoping to run into some of you along the way. My first stop will be this coming Wednesday night, January 14, at 6:30 pm. I’ll be appearing with...
View ArticleFrom the Road . . .
I have arrived in Williamsburg, Virginia for MarsCon 25, which begins tomorrow. I was literary Guest of Honor at MarsCon back in 2013, or maybe it was 2012. Whichever it was, I had a great time here,...
View ArticleExploring During My Down Time
One of my favorite things to do at any convention is take advantage of my down time by exploring the area in which the con is held. While in San Jose for a World Fantasy Convention several years ago I...
View ArticleToday at MarsCon 25
Panels on the best genre books of the past quarter century and overcoming writing blocks in our novels, readings and signings with the wonderful Alethea Kontis, David Weber, and Katherine Kurtz,...
View ArticleJiggity Jig
Yes, that’s right: Jiggity jig. As in “Home again, home again/Jiggity jig.” I am back home, after a ten-day road trip that included a couple of successful book signing events, a Guest of Honor...
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DragonCon, Here I Come . . . Again
This is one of those announcements that I just love to make: I am very pleased to say that I have been invited back to DragonCon as a guest (as D.B. Jackson, but I’ll be there promoting my work as...
View ArticleMy Schedule For DragonCon!
I am delighted to present my schedule for DragonCon, which begins on Friday in Atlanta. I will be appearing as D.B. Jackson (and that’s how I’m listed in the program), but will be talking about work...
View ArticleA Quick-Tip Tuesday Post on Writing Communities
Writing can be a lonely profession. We often work on our own, toiling alone for hours at a time, sending our work into what can feel like a marketplace vacuum, and waiting for feedback that can be...
View ArticleMonday Musings: Getting the Most Out of a Convention
I am just finishing up a very nice weekend at Boskone, a terrific regional convention in Boston. This was my second Boskone, and I feel that I am starting to know people at the con, and also to be...
View ArticleMonday Musings: The Social Side of Cons
At the end of this week, I will drive to Charlotte for the Saga Professional Development Conference, where I will be speaking over the weekend. It should be a fun event and I hope to see many of you...
View ArticleMonday Musings: Missing DragonCon
Like so many of you, like so many of my fans, my colleagues, my friends, I was supposed to be in Atlanta for DragonCon this Labor Day weekend. Yes, I have taken part in several online panels and...
View ArticleProfessional Wednesday: Thoughts After Virtual Boskone
Boskone was held this past weekend. Virtually, of course. It has quickly become one of my favorite conventions, and it was the only in-person convention I attended last year (not counting the SAGA...
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Tuesday Musings: This is Why People Post Photos of Kittens…
I am having a bit of a “If you can’t say something nice about someone, don’t say anything at all” moment right now. There are some things I would like to write about. I have a couple of rants...
View ArticleMonday Musings: Wading Back In (and Why I Left)
Yes, I’m back, dipping my toes cautiously into the social media waters, gauging my mental state. I have a lot going on professionally right now, and I need to write about it, to boost the signal (as...
View ArticleMy Schedule for DragonCon 2022!
The last time I was at DragonCon was Labor Day Weekend, 2018. For years, Dragon was the centerpiece of my annual professional schedule, the convention to which I most looked forward each year. In 2019,...
View ArticleMonday Musings (On Tuesday): Back From DragonCon
I have spent this past weekend at DragonCon, catching up with friends, meeting new people, and returning an air of normalcy to my professional calendar. To be honest, I went into the weekend a bit...
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Monday Musings: Memories of Halloweens Past
We live in a small subdivision outside of our little college town. Our neighborhood consists of maybe eighteen houses, only a handful of them with young children. I bring this up today because it’s...
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