This is a weird and complicated newsletter, because I’m going to try to explain what’s been going on with the current books. If you don’t want to read it all, “weird and complicated” is actually a good summation, and you can skip to the end. Continue reading
Okay, okay, so I stumbled into another four-book trilogy. I really thought it would be different this time, despite having been wrong more often than the Flat Earth Society. I really did. And it could have been a three-book series, … Continue reading
You really have to give the ancient Mayans credit. Without computers, calculators, or even an abacus, they decided that the world was going to end in 2012. Seems like they were only off by eight years. Pretty good for analog. Continue reading
Hello, my dears and darlings and isolated hamburgers. (MY DARLING, MY HAMBURGER was a young-adult novel by Paul Zindel from 1969. It’s something Deb and I commonly call each other.)
Just thought I’d bring you up to speed on what’s going on at our house, in my head, and with the overall progress of various books and other projects. Continue reading
I’m currently working on the ending (which with me can mean I still have hundreds of pages to write) of The Navigator’s Children, book three of the current Osten Ard story. I’m always trying to balance what I know readers want—resolution, and at least some version of a happy ending—with the desire to keep things realistic, which means balancing the good with the bad. Continue reading
We’ve been talking about doing merchandise for several years. We finally decided to do something about it. Continue reading