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When my friend Brian first linked me to the picture he made of Jack Wilgress, I thought it was pretty cool.  I shared it with the rest of my friends on Facebook, but I thought it deserved a blog post.
One of the coolest things about this picture is the wording behind the character, “3:10 to [...]

I don’t really like ebooks.  I like to open a real book with real pages.  I especially like to read from the standard page because it gives my eyes a much-needed respite from the glare of a monitor.  There’s something about an object that shoots light directly into your eyes that bugs you after a [...]

I am Team Jacob.
I just wanted to get that out of the way, since that seems to be the most important social label right now.  Yeah, werewolves are infinitely cooler than vampires, and maybe I’m biased because of Hugh Jackman’s Van Helsing.  But that’s not why I’m Team Jacob.  My wife is.  And I’m with her.  [...]

No, I am not suddenly embarking in a career in the United States Armed Forces.
On Monday I signed a contract with Grail Quest Books to write a Novella in the universe based on WARS, the Collectible Card Game from Decipher, Inc.  I am one of three authors enlisted to work on this project, each writing [...]

In the quest to become published authors, we writers are faced with a critical decision: what do we do with the brilliant literary treasure we have just hammered out on our blood-stained keyboards?
I was asked recently if I had considered Dragon Moon Press, the fine folks who currently house authors such as Tee Morris, Scott [...]

A writer begins work on a treatise explaining his utter dislike for the genre of Fantasy. In the spirit of Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, he finds himself transported to a fantasy realm full of strange and outlandish cookie-cutter fairy-tale characters. The drawback? This writer has a penchant [...]