Some of you may have noticed that I’ve been more quiet than usual on the blog and the TwitFaceSpaces lately. There’s a reason for that, of course, and I’m free to share it at this point. My awesome agent Evan Gregory of the Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency has sold the publication rights to Terms of…
Category: writing.
an announcement.
As of today, I have a literary agent. I’ve signed with Evan Gregory of Ethan Ellenberg, who will represent my works from now on. Together, we will make ALL THE MONEY. I’ve been looking for a literary agent for a few years now (ever since Viable Paradise XII in 2008, in fact), and Ethan Ellenberg…
brief update from the desk of yr obdnt srvnt.
Chuck Wendig, Jedi Master of Writing Advice, gave me and Terms of Enlistment a shout-out in his latest blog post about self-publishing. Chuck has gone the self-publishing route, but he’s also traditionally published, so he knows both sides of the coin pretty well. Steven Gould, author of the Jumper series of SF novels and one…
so i was wrong about the self-publishing thing.
I had this long and very clever blog post witten in which present-day Marko rebuts the arguments of 2011 Marko in opposition of self-publishing, but it came across all braggy and smarmy, so I deleted the draft and decided to start over. Yes, two years ago I wrote a lengthy blog post detailing why I’d…
a tale of a rejection, and the straw that made the cup run over, or something.
Somewhere out there is a literary agent (who shall remain unnamed here) who asked for science fiction submissions on Twitter the Friday before last. I was in bed at the time, reading my Twitter feed on the iPad (as one does), so I got out of bed again to send that agent a query letter…
it’s the good ramen at castle frostbite tonight.
Well, this is a nice thing to wake up to: #4 on the Kindle in Military SF. #32 in the entire SF category. #699 in the Kindle Store. Dang. All of you who bought the little Space Kablooie novel: you have my thanks. If you liked it enough to review or plug it on Amazon…
a humble request.
My little Space Kablooie novel is finally up on Amazon. People are buying it, which makes me happy. People are liking it, which makes me even happier. If you’ve read Terms of Enlistment, please consider leaving a review on whatever site you purchased the book. The reviews are not for me (although I can’t deny…
analog data: the longevity thereof.
One of my regular reads from the old Fatherland has an interesting article today about a letter that took 71 years to deliver. (link is in German) In WWII, German troops occupied the Channel island of Jersey for five years. Some of the local yoots decided to steal a bag of German military mail as…
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I’m not much of a photographer, but this picture is probably my favorite of all the ones I’ve taken. It’s the cemetery right up the road after the surprise late October snow we had last year. I used no filters or any post-processing, and the camera was the lowly built-in iPhone 4 one. I’m 41…
a shack of one’s own.
Neil Gaiman has one. Roald Dahl had one. So did Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw, Dylan Thomas, Virginia Woolf, and a bunch of other famous inkslingers. I am, of course, talking about a writing shed. The idea for one (or the obsession with it, however you want to look at it) has been firmly planted…