Publishing is changing faster than the tide can go in and out, and authors are climbing to higher ground, building boats, or getting washed out to sea.  Many of us are putting up backlist titles as our own indy eBooks, while writing frontlist titles for traditional publishers. Much has been posted about do-it-yourself eBook publishing for ambitious authors, but we’ve been out of the loop on the eBook versions of our titles from major publishers.  Until now. I am pleased to be one of the test authors on a new program, Cunable, managed by John Grace, formerly of Brilliance Audio. Cunable...

Just finished our fourth Superstars Writing Seminar, this time in Colorado Springs. I will be posting a report soon, but one of our first-time attendees, Sam Knight, went home and immediately wrote a wonderful summary of his experiences.  His blog is at http://samknight.com/?p=1347. I am reposting it here with his permission.  Honestly, I couldn’t have said it better! A Lightning Strike on Your Writing Career—Seriously, You NEED to Read This One Sam Knight Ever heard the term ‘lightning strikes’ when someone is talking about a confluence of events that made magic happen? An event that happens somewhere, triggering a chain reaction that changed everything...

WordFire Press has joined forced with the extremely popular and innovative Baen eBook Library, and our first four titles have just been featured in their May newsletter. First up is FIVE BY FIVE: Five military SF novellas by five military SF writers (Kevin J. Anderson, Michael A. Stackpole, Aaron Allston, B.V. Larson, and Loren L. Coleman). It’s a war out there. In these pulse-pounding tales, the best (or worst) soldiers in the galaxy are pitted against powerful aliens on distant battlefields. Never before published stories about monsters, deadly combat tech, treachery, and honor.  (Note, we are working on the second volume of...

After I finished my massive edit of the 800+ page manuscript of THE DARK BETWEEN THE STARS, I celebrated by going to the dentist to get a crown put on a tooth (yippee) and after that, I really celebrated by going to see IRON MAN 3. (That was much more fun.)  Then the following day, Thursday, Rebecca and I drove off into the mountains to Glenwood Springs, where we spent the afternoon soaking in the mineral hot springs.  It’s a gorgeous mountain resort, great hot springs (this is where Doc Holliday went to spend his last days).  During the three-hour...