Month: November 2009

When You Can’t Say No

Stephen King does a fabulous review of a new Raymond Carver biography and volume of Carver’s stores, restored after being eviscerated by Esquire‘s then-editor, Gordon Lish. (This isn’t the first time this issue has come up either; the NYT has…

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VECTOR now out

My short story, “Vector,” is now out in Battletech Classic : 25 Years of Art and Fiction.  A very classy book, indeed–my local librarian is tickled pink. Great cover art, too:

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The Definition of Hard Work

Coming up with a title for this post was . . . well, hard and that’s probably a tribute to the fact that I’m in the HARD part of my latest book–which translates to the initial glow has faded, that…

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E-books and covers

Yet another nice post by Steve York on ebooks and the lack of covers, which reiterates something I’ve been saying for months to just about anyone who will listen: the fact that ebooks do not have physical covers creates just…

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