Hey awesome,I'm sending a quick off-schedule note for two reasons - a welcome to all our new members (and congrats to the contest winners), and to offer you a prize.It's release week for Beyond Enemies (available anywhere books are sold!), and Talinn...

Hey awesome,Is your 2024 off to a good start? Mine has been...wild. First, we moved - into a house! We're renting a sweet little place in Massachusetts for a few months while we figure out some next steps, and I have gotten reacquainted with winter.S...

Hey awesome,This year has been two seconds and eleventy billion years long, somehow at the same time. It’s the end of December, 2024 is coming up fast, and while I’ve gotten a lot done, there’s a lot more I meant to do.Alas. Still, this year has been...

Hey awesome,Hope you’re warm and cozy as we slide into the darkest days of the year. I’ve stocked up on hot chocolate and blankets, and we’re in the literal midst of a holiday light show, so it’s pretty lovely here.Also lovely: I’m nearly caught up o...

Hey awesome,It's been a whirlwind over here - we've moved to our winter location, I've got deadlines bearing down, working is picking up...and also it's my favorite weather of the year and the beach is so close all I want to do is play outside!This p...

Hey awesome,I'm not quite a fully functional human adult post-Dragon Con, but I'm getting there. It was an amaaaazing time, and totally worth an...almost two week recovery time.Whew.Even sharing the highlights would make this unreasonably long, so th...

Hey awesome,We're a few weeks out from DragonCon, so I'm trying to focus on getting things done, but all I want to do is start packing and then go hang out with tens of thousands of fellow nerds. Fortunately/unfortunately, deadlines await, and so I a...

Hey awesome,We are not quiiiite close enough to the mountains to avoid heat + humidity entirely, but I'm locking myself in air conditioning and writing as much as possible. How are you keeping cool in this very melty summer?I'm trying to have 1.5 nov...

From Bryn Siegmund:Welcome to the Valkyries. Your current assignment is fact-finding - unlike Cynthia F-ing Witherbot, I'm not going to throw you to the wolves without some time to get your feet under you.Mostly.Anyway. If you haven't already, you ca...

Hey awesome,It's heating up around here, but it's not 100+ degrees and there are blackberries growing on our fence, so I can't really complain. How's summer going for you?The blackberries are a welcome new occurrence, which I might add to my list of...