A lot of you reading this are writers, or want to be. You believe that, somewhere down inside, there’s a novel or fifty just waiting to bust out. In my decade-plus hosting The Every Day Novelist (currently on hiatus, but still available) I got to talk to hundreds-to-thousands of people …
Tales of Horror and Delight Between the timeless night that bounds our opening and closing curtains there stretches an all-too-brief parade of adventures, loves, ambitions, mistakes, triumphs, capers, madnesses, and failures. The Earth, too, basks in sunlight burning briefly in an endless darkness, and on her face are played out …
Spring is here! Spring is here! Tom Lehrer’s singing of skittles and beer! Okay, so it’s not springtime yet, but the last few days have seen some remarkably spring-y weather, which is a fantastic mood-lifter here in the Pacific Northwest. I’m now deep into recording the audiobook for the soon-to-be-released …
Updating after a woefully long absence… NaNoWriMo Every Month, the daily podcast about leveling up from a hobbyist to a pro fiction writer, has taken on a life of its own. After two months and change, it’s still going, with daily updates that I drop in blocks as people send …
This week on The Next Ten Thousand Hours, Kitty flies solo! Within you will find: Kitty talks about sanity & solitude. Reading: Excerpt from Suave Rob’s Double-X Derring-Do, read by Dave Robison Kitty’s Corner: Holidays According to Kitty And remember, the Dark Justice crime bundle (featuring And Then She Was …
The Dark Justice storybundle (which you can find by clicking on the link, or the banner at the top of this page, or the image at the bottom of this post) is entering the home stretch, and we’re still trying to spread the word. If you have a podcast, a …
This is the final post in a series about how my recent search for the perfect pup perpetuted an intellectual penetration into the hidden and varied economics of the marketplace for dogs and puppies in the different regions of the west coast. If you’re joining this series in progress, you …
Many of you supported me in a kickstarter a while back to create a full-cast audiobook of Gail Carriger’s excellent YA science fiction novel Crudrat and a quartet of her short stories. We got the usual crew on board–Danny Schade did the music, Tee Morris, Stephen H. Wilson, Philippa Ballantine, …
Since I am going to be at Balticon, with my camera kit in tow, I am available for photo bookings. What I Can Do I can shoot: Groups Families Personal/couples portraits Professional headshots Pregnancy portraits Fantasy Art, Theatrical, Science Fiction/horror scenes (these requires nontrivial planning, expect an extended phone/email …
Hi, everyone! Dan is hard at work putting the finishing touches on Crudrat and prepping for Balticon. If you will be at Balticon, and would like a signed J. Daniel Sawyer book hand delivered to you, please order through our online store by 6:00 PM PDT, Wednesday, May 14 (we …
