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Interview With The Artist — Christian Renee Bressler

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As I sit at my table, talking to people looking at my books, people often ask about the artists.  “Who did that cover?”  In this and a few other interviews, I’m hoping to answer that question. Christian Renee Bressler was…

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Interview With The Artist — Brad Foster

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As I sit at my table, talking to people looking at my books, people often ask about the artists.  “Who did that cover?”  In this and a few other interviews, I’m hoping to answer that question.  Brad Foster is well…

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Managing Events I Want to Attend

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I wish I could be able to sign up for all the events for the upcoming year at one time and be done with it.  Unfortunately, every event has their own way of doing things and their own schedule.  Some…

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Beta-Reader Books

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Every new novel, after a few rounds of editing, gets packaged into an 8.5 x11 bound format and mailed off to select readers who then have the joyous task of scribbling all over it and telling me where I messed…

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Preparing for Event Season

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It’s been a couple of months since I’ve had a table at a book event and one is coming up before too long.  Although I’ve been selling books from my website during this slow time, I do make most of…

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What’s Up Next

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Today, I’m working on two very different books.  I can’t show you the covers yet, but I will soon. The next novel up is Free U’tanse and follows the events of Tales of the U’tanse which came out December 2012.  The…

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My Favorite Book: Henry’s Stories Anthologies

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This is really two books, Volumes 1 and 2, but I’d be saying the same thing twice, so I won’t waste your time.  Over the past decades, I’ve written many shorter pieces of fiction. Several have appeared in magazines and…

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My Favorite Book: Captain’s Memories

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This part of the saga is something like an anthology of shorter works.  I’ve heard this structure called a ‘fix-up’ novel, where short fiction is blended into a novel-length story. I’ve been calling it ‘comb anthology’ where short stories are…

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My Favorite Book: In the Time of Green Blimps

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Back in Star Time, I planted a few seeds that meant little or nothing to that story, but provided the framework for this one. In one, the Australian scientist that was interested in genetic engineering, after a hundred years, has…

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My Favorite Book: Tales of the U’tanse

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It was plain from the very beginning in Star Time that this saga I was writing had two branches, and it wouldn’t work to combine them in one novel.  No matter that this was hardly the traditional way to write…

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