All right. I was going to put this off until June when the Walker Papers mass markets will have been out a year, but I’ve just gotten 3 boxes of mass market Negotiator books and am really badly out of room for books, so I’m going to go ahead and throw this out to see if anybody’s interested. I have 8 complete sets of the Walker Papers (URBAN SHAMAN, THUNDERBIRD FALLS, COYOTE DREAMS, WALKING DEAD) in trade paperback. If anybody would like a complete signed set, I’ll sell them for…
P-Con Weekend
We are back from P-Con and I have reached a degree of semi-functionality, so it is time to summarize the weekend. It was fun. :) There we go, then! More, though not exhaustive, detail behind the cut. :)
P-Con 7 schedule
This coming weekend (March 5-7) is Phoenix Con 7, more affectionately known as P-Con. My panel schedule is as follows: Saturday 11am: Writing Methods of the Experts C.E. Murphy; George Green; Steve Westcott; Juliet E. McKenna 12:15pm: Superheroes – limited to the graphic arena? Cheryl Morgan; C.E. Murphy; Bob Neilson; Derek Gunn; Colin Harvey 4pm: Will water become more important in genre fiction? C.E. Murphy; John Kenny; Ian McDonald; A.J. Healy 5pm: Pictionary Sunday 10am Panel topics for P-Con VIII C.E. Murphy; Brian J. Showers; Colin Smythe; Derek Gunn; John…
nothing in particular
There’s a top ten writing rules meme going around. I’m pretty sure I could come up with ten, but the one my mother most often reminds me of is “A famous writer once told me you can’t fix what’s not on the page, so you better get writing.” I suspect that’s pretty much the most important one, for me. Facebook’s latest new improved interface is so clogged up I’ve largely stopped using it for anything besides updating my own status, which is really boring. Not sure how much longer I…
Hot Time wrap-up
The “Hot Time” novella went dark last night around 5pm Eastern (with one person getting their purchase in quite literally at the last minute: I was taking the Paypal links down as the payment came in!). This whole project has been an experiment in selling to a direct market. I pretty much think of this as patronage: the people who bought this story made it possible for me to write something that would not otherwise exist–and believe me, this story was one I have known for years *happened* and have…