First Scorch City Review

July 23, 2011

Publishers Weekly has published the first review of Scorch City, describing it as a “worthy follow-up to The Vaults.” You can read the whole review at PW. Scorch City won’t be available until the end of August, but in the meantime you can listen to the first chapter of The Vaults at the iambik website [...]

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Dog Days

July 18, 2011

I’m talking with my agent tomorrow about the manuscript of my third novel. The last month and a half have been something of a break from fiction writing while he has had the manuscript and I’ve held off on doing anything very drastic until I hear back from him. What did I do with my [...]

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Audiobooks and Agents

July 2, 2011

Iambik sent me the files for the audiobook version of The Vaults. I’m supposed to listen to the whole thing and get back to them with any changes/edits by next Friday. They are aiming at a July 13 release. The cool thing about Iambik is that their audiobooks are available as downloads for $6.99 — [...]

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New Website

June 21, 2011

So I’ve redone my website. It may take a little while to get out the bugs and get all the different headlines/metadata/text fonts and colors straight, but otherwise I hope people find it to be a more pleasurable website experience. Right now I’m waiting for my agent to read the manuscript of my third book, [...]

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Better, Not Easier

June 18, 2011

I just sent the manuscript for my third novel to my agent. Unlike both The Vaults and Scorch City, I haven’t had anyone else read it before sending it to him. In large part this was just a time issue as I finished the draft just in time to send it off. It’s always a [...]

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The Vaults around the Internet

June 18, 2011

I’ve been doing a number of interviews with book-related web sites as well as a guest blog post or two. I will update the list as more are published. Interview with Solely Fictional Interview with Writ Guest post for Joseph’s Reviews Interview with Melanie’s Book Addiction Interview with Writers Read about what I’m currently reading [...]

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More Book Covers

June 18, 2011

Here’s the second helping of book covers from the paperback collection up at Bear Island: In The Last Analysis My sense is that the phrase “In the final analysis” is more common, but whatever. This is some really high-concept stuff with the Dali-like levitation above a fainting couch that is itself levitating in some dreamscape [...]

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Book Covers

June 18, 2011

My family has a place up on Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire that has, among other things, hundreds of paperback mysteries, thrillers, and the like that have been accumulated over the decades. One of the great things about a collection like this is that you can see how the trends in cover design have changed over [...]

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Berlin Document Center Pt. 2

June 18, 2011

If you haven’t read the first Berlin Document Center post, it probably makes sense to start there. This post, like the last, is based in large part on “Secrets of the Files,” a New Yorker article from 1994 by Gerald Posner. At the time that the article was written, the U.S. was about to cede [...]

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Berlin Document Center Pt. 1

June 17, 2011

Like most authors, I suspect, I get questions on a pretty frequent basis about where my ideas come from. I don’t have a wise-ass answer to that yet, so I generally opt for the truth which is that I read a lot and try to remember the interesting stuff. For The Vaults, in particular, there was [...]

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