It’s been a shitty week- both husband and kiddo have been ill with various viruses and strep, we lost power for a day and Internet for two days. As life has been either busy or crappy for several weeks, I’ve fallen way behind. But still! The world has not stopped, so we continue!
First, as it’s [...]
Quick sundries!
I was interviewed on the Dead Robots Society podcast!
I’ll be having a book signing and reading at Chapel Hill Comics on February 28 at 6pm! Hope you can make it – we’re planning a fun event! More info as we get closer.
My latest Suicide Girls column is live! Remember, the column itself is SFW, the site as a whole is not.
There were several of us geeks in high school, several who saw those four years as long, arduous tests intended to cause so much trauma to us in order to prepare us for the rest of [...]
I was thrilled this week to find an article in Strange Horizons magazine called From iTunes to the Bookshelves: The First Wave of Podcast Novelists. Shaun Farrell of Adventures in SciFi Publishing did the article, interviewing several podcast authors over this year, writing an honest and excellent article on the medium and where it may [...]
Boy howdy – things have been a little crazy here since DragonCon, and I’m very sorry I haven’t been updating! News before we get to the podcast:
Playing For Keeps won the Parsec Award for Best Novel! What a shock and honor! Congrats to the other nominees and winners!
I now have an agent; I’m being represented [...]
I am traveling to the city of my birth, Charlotte, NC, for a signing this Sunday at 2pm at Park Road Books. Hope to see you there! (Yes, I will have copies of PFK with me for purchase!)
I appeared on I Killed Awesome Man Episode 1!
The state of modern religious music upsets me. I like [...]
I suck at con reports. I think I say that every time. But hell, cons are so kinetic with many many people to see and many many things to do that I always fear I’ll leave something out, so I end up being overwhelmed and not making any kind of report.
But this one was kind [...]
Scott Sigler, author of violent and bloody podiobooks Earthcore, Infected, Ancestor, The Rookie, Nocturnal, and Patty’s Wonderful Day at Play Park, has created a Stories of the Third Wave about a different “hero.” The Torpdeo is a strong Third Wave man who has decided to screw anyone who says he can’t be a hero. He [...]
Yesterday I got interviewed on NPR’s The State of Things, our local interview show. If you missed it (and thanks so much to everyone who listened in live!) you can download is here. I’m about 40 min in.
As of 11:00pm Eastern Time, Playing For Keeps reached:
#1 in Hot New Releases
#1 in Movers and Shakers
#1 in Science Fiction
#1 in Action/Adventure
#2 in Science Fiction & Fantasy
#2 in Genre Fiction
#3 in Literature & Fiction
#16 in Books
To say I’m stunned, humbled and grateful is an understatement. I expected to break the top 100. I hoped to [...]
