A big giveaway coming up!

A giveaway!Mark your calendars! The box set of the Inquisitors' Guild series will be free as an ebook from March 15-19th. If you haven't read those three books, you can grab them then, and if you want to share them with a friend, it's hard to beat fr...

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Mar 02, 2026
The play's the thing...

On the fragility of technologyWe had a minor rainfall here this morning, and because Duke Power sucks at most of what they do, our power went out for a few seconds. It does that a lot, because despite making a billion dollars in profit last year, the...

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Feb 16, 2026
News from Dave Dobson

Snow!Like much of the country, we've had a lot of snow the last couple weeks, which has played havoc on roads. It sure is pretty, though. We got about eight inches of light fluffy snow yesterday on top of a half-inch of ice that was persisting from l...

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Feb 02, 2026
The romantic comedy is coming together!

An update on Best,and yes, the comma is part of the title. The book is named after the e-mail closing commonly used by academics and others, sometimes passive-aggressively. The book is a romantic comedy about two professors, both mid career with some...

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Jan 16, 2026
Free book coming up on Jan 9

Mark your calendars!One of my Inquisitors' Guild mysteries, The Woeling Lass, will be free as an ebook from January 9 to the 13th. If you're a fan of free reading, make sure to grab a copy from Amazon then. It's the best rated of my books, at 4.7/10...

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Jan 02, 2026
Three book giveaways coming up!

Giveaways!I have gotten a few cool giveaways scheduled for the end of this year into early next year. Mark your calendars if you want to grab free books of mine from Amazon! Here's the schedule:Free December 16-20 (i.e. now!)Daros is free right now....

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Dec 16, 2025
New Art for Izzy

New Art for IzzyI commissioned an artist to create new cover art for my latest fantasy novel, The Glorious and Epic Tale of Lady Isovar, and I really love how it came out. I was looking for something that would have more of a comedic feel, because th...

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Nov 16, 2025
A show, and heading into November!

An evening of book-related improvI had a really great time at my one-of-a-kind mystery book improv show at The Idiot Box, the comedy club where I've been performing for the past 20 years. There was a great audience, and we did a lot of fun and funny...

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Nov 02, 2025
Comicon plus news on the new romance novel

Comicon Greensboro!I had the opportunity to go to Big Lick Comicon in my hometown, Greensboro NC, on October 4th and 5th. I shared a booth (see above) with Mike Mollman, who's a fantasy and sci fi author, and who runs a popular YouTube show for indie...

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Oct 16, 2025