Audiobook winner(s)

I forgot to put a deadline on the audiobook giveaway post, but I decided to pick a winner. That winner is BECKY. But SAM will also get a copy just for the heck of it. The rest of you will need to buy it, download it, or head to the library. Believe me, it’s worth [...]

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The Breading

I don’t like to bake a big deal out of my friends’ books, but both of these are such great books I couldn’t resist. I hereby declare, with the power nobody has vested in me, that today is INTERNATIONAL BOOKS ABOUT BREAD DAY to celebrate the release of two magical, lovely, books by people I [...]

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Audiobook Giveaway

The Tanglewood Terror is the first book of mine to be produced as an audiobook (although a Mudville production is now underway). I was anxious about hearing my own words read back to me. Maybe prose that looks fine on a page would be clunky in a narration. Maybe I wouldn’t like the narrator. Maybe [...]

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The Tanglewood Terror…

Excuse me while I briefly veer back on the road of self-promotion. My third novel, The Tanglewood Terror, releases today in hardcover, audiobook, and ebook formats. Mamba Point is also now out in paperback. Time to visit your local bookstore, go to the library, or (at least for the first) download the audio and load [...]

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Talking to Aaron Starmer (Author of The Only Ones)

I follow a few hundred people on Twitter, and the truth is that I can’t quite remember how they all came to enjoy my followage. So I don’t remember when I started tracking Aaron Starmer, but it was probably about the tenth time we found some common literary ground that I started to pay attention [...]

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Some Things I Haven’t Blogged About

I haven’t been around as much as I’d like to be, and it’s not for lack of ideas. In fact, I routinely think of things I could blog about on my lunch break or when I get home. Just in the last week I’ve considered blogging about: 1. Orange soda. Or, as we call it [...]

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