What is the Dogs Project?  Well, I had hoped I’d get that one last critique in, but it’s pretty clearly not going to happen.  I have to say how much I appreciate the comments I had from the folks who did chime in and that I totally undertand not having time to ge around to it from the one that didn’t.  Scheduling is always a trial. The final draft is due in with Shawn in a couple weeks, so I’m […]

We aren’t actually dead. We’ve just got massive deadlines coming.  Both Ty and I will be back on the blog shortly with deep insights and occasional buffoonery sometime after Friday.

So far, people seem to like it.

  EDIT: Well, as always, it’s a little more complex than I’d thought.  King’s Blood is out today in the UK.  The US, a little less certain.  Let’s call this one Real Soon Now and celebrate accuracy over precision.   Well, it looks like The King’s Blood:  Book Two of The Dagger and the Coin is out in the UK tomorrow and in the US the day after that.  This is that nervous part where I’m right on the edge […]

Looks like Daniel and I will be hitting the Locus Awards show this year, after our surprising Best SF Novel nomination.  If you’re in the Seattle area during the event, let us know.  We’re always up for hanging out in a bar. And a huge thank you to anyone who voted for  us.  We are humbled by the support we’re getting.  I mean, I was humble anyway, but Daniel could have used a little more humbling, and boy is he […]

If y’all are interested in it, I have a post up on A Dribble of Ink about historical accuracy and epic fantasy.  I am, at best, skeptical.

Publishing is changing.  It used to be that the normal publication cycle was a hardcover release, followed by a mass market paperback.  Our publisher is Orbit, for the Expanse series and Daniel’s Dagger and Coin.  In the US, they do a simultaneous release of trade paperbacks and ebooks, with no hardcover release.   Ebooks are killing the mass market paperback, as they take the role of the disposable book.  Trade paperbacks don’t suffer from the frankly stupid stripping returns rules that […]

What is the Dog’s Project? Okay, a couple more critiques have rolled in, which I will share with you now. First, from New York Times bestelling urban fantasy author Carrie Vaughn: ————————————————————————————– I read your blogs posts, but not the story as you were posting it, any more than a skim-through.  I also skimmed the two critiques that went up, but only after I read the story myself.  So I know what you said you were doing with this, and […]

It’s a short-time sale, but your friends and mine at Barnes and Noble are making the ebook version of Dragon’s Path their Daily Find today.  That means you can get the book for a big $2.99 AND it’s got a copy of the Hugo nominated Leviathan Wakes along with it as an extra. Or if you’re a Kindle aficionado, you can grab it at the same price from Amazon. Thing is, it’s a one-day sale.  So tell your friends and […]