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News Both Personal and Professional
On January 5th, my family and I were in Bozeman, Montana, visiting friends. It happened to be my birthday, so we borrowed our friend’s Toyota Sequoia, drove downtown, had a nice calm dinner. My wife...
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The Twelve-Fingered Boy Trailer
BUY THE BOOK! Hiram Quincrux voiced by Dan O’Shea – http://danielboshea.wordpress.com/ Jack Graves voiced by Matthew Gephardt Jack Graves voice engineered by Drew Pickens Animation by the author
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Creative Planning
It’s true. I’ve been straddling the fence. Hedging my bets, as it were. Last April, I left my job to pursue freelance visual work and focus more on writing. Over these last 10 months, there have been...
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On Young Adult Fiction for Boys
So, I had to write two mini-essays to apply to this fancy book publicity insider thingy and I thought, hey, if they reject me, I’ll still get a blog post out of it. That’s just how I do, ya know? WHY...
View ArticleThe Horn Book Review of TTFB
I’m told that The Horn Book magazine is the most prestigious journal on literature for kids. So this review for THE TWELVE-FINGERED BOY made me happy - “It’s a monster of a world” for fifteen-year-old...
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Treasure Island: The Musical
I am an infrequent blogger because, I think, deep down, I’m apathetic about most current events. I’m getting older, and crotchety. I don’t have cable so all my television is through Netflix. And the...
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GIVING REVIEWS I wrote a review the other day on Treasure Island, The Musical, and my Statcounter app tells me it’s been viewed a few times by someone who might’ve been upset by the review. I felt bad...
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Quick Review – EVIL DEAD 2013
Very quickly, I played hooky from work (writing) this morning and caught the 10am showing of EVIL DEAD, the remake of the Raimi classic. It’s a interesting mash-up of both EVIL DEAD and EVIL DEAD 2,...
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THE INCORRUPTIBLES goes to GOLLANCZ!
It’s with extreme happiness that I tell you that THE INCORRUPTIBLES, my first foray into fantasy, has sold to Gollancz in the UK. Gollancz, an imprint of Orion Books, is the premiere fantasy and...
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The War of Art
There’s all stripes of writing advice out there and, surprisingly, almost all of it is good. As a writer, much of the journey is discovering what works for you and what doesn’t. The only way to come to...
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My ConQuest Schedule
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...
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The Benefits of Being Unpublished
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...
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Why I Write
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...
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My Book Expo America and NYC Schedule
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...
View ArticleTTFB Reviewed at BoingBoing.net
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,...
View ArticleSelf-Publishing, Fan Fiction, eBooks in General
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...
View ArticleHiatus
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...
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