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...

Just a quick update and intro to our first-round judging for the 5th annual SPSFC. For more team updates, check out our team page here. We’ve split our allotment of 25 books into two groups, one of 13 and one of 12. We split our four judges into two...

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....

Welcome, new folks!Hi, there. If you've joined the mailing list recently, I want to make sure you get your free Frosthelm book, Traitors Unseen. If you haven't gotten it, you can get it free here (the site will ask you to sign up for t...

Here’s a set of links to our book intro posts for our contestants in SPSFC #5! Welcome to the initial round, and let the games begin! Our books, Part 1 Alternative Science Chad Eastwood Dragon City Iryna Karban Empyreax The Rise of Ca Ra Scott Frost...

Here’s a preview of our 25 entries for the fifth annual SPSFC #5! Visit our team home page here for more information. Note: These initial summaries don’t include any feedback from judges, who are only just starting to read for the contest. They’re ju...

Here’s a preview of our 25 entries for the fifth annual SPSFC #5! Visit our team home page here for more information. Note: These initial summaries don’t include any feedback from judges, who are only just starting to read for the contest. They’re ju...

Here’s a preview of our 25 entries for the fifth annual SPSFC #5! Visit our team home page here for more information. Note: These initial summaries don’t include any feedback from judges, who are only just starting to read for the contest. They’re ju...

Here’s a preview of our 25 entries for the fifth annual SPSFC #5! Visit our team home page here for more information. Note: These initial summaries don’t include any feedback from judges, who are only just starting to read for the contest. They’re ju...

Here’s a preview of our 25 entries for the fifth annual SPSFC #5! Visit our team home page here for more information. Note: These initial summaries don’t include any feedback from judges, who are only just starting to read for the contest. They’re ju...

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...

Here are the judges of Team 1.21 Gigawatts, our judging team for the 5th annual Self-Published Science Fiction Competition. For all the updates and links you could want, please check out our team homepage here. Allison Alexander Allison Alexander is...

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...

Red Eye (from the BBC, on Hulu) was a bit of a mess. I’m always a sucker for airplane action shows, but they work better as movies, because there’s just no way to sustain tension on a plane for more than a couple hours. Last year’s Hijack (AppleTV) w...

Over the last couple months, I’ve been thinking about doing something to try to give indie authors a chance to see how they’re doing relative to others. It’s always interesting to me that indies are exponential. By that, I mean I look around the indi...