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Excitement.

With the New Year now fully engulfing us, it’s time to get back to business.

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Rather than a retrospective on the past year, I thought I’d kick off the new year in its wee hours with a look forward at the wider world.

**Cue the cheesy elevator music** Ladies, Gentlemen, and Everyone Else Too: Shopping for your mother or brother or daughter or husband or pet parakeet or sworn enemy this year?

With Thanksgiving and crowdfunding behind us, it’s time to get back to business.

Hello, everyone!

This week on The Next Ten Thousand Hours, we have an update on the Crudrat crowdfunding campaign, and talk about how to manage rapid expansion when projects get too big to keep in your head.

It’s late.

This week on The Next Ten Thousand Hours, we have an update on the Crudrat crowdfunding campaign, and the unexpected consequences of having all your hard work pay off exactly as you hoped–and how to survive them.

As those of you who read/listen to my stories might have guessed, I’m a very political animal, but I do not hew comfortably near the current position of either major party and I’m not close to any of the minor parties either.

Well, that’ll teach me to swear I’ll be on time… Nevertheless, I present you with Episode 3 of Free Will and Other Compulsions, In which the Moon Girl confronts the search party, Bill Shelley has a chat with the President, Joss weighs his options, and a n…

I’ve lucked into the rare opportunity to produce the full-cast audiobook of Gail Carriger’s science fiction debut.

Better late than never, right?

A day late, but not a dollar short, I give you episode 2 of Free Will and Other Compulsions.

This week on the podcast, we unveil The Next Ten Thousand Hours.

At long last, Free Will is back, and back for good.

It’s time.

Three years of questions.

In between working on the website and audio for the new SooperSekrit project today, I followed a link to an article that turned out to articulate one of the greatest (and most easily fixable) systemic problems that a lot of us face.

Well, ladies and gents and all of you sitting somewhere in between, it gives me ridiculous delight to announce that my pulp adventure novel is finally out in paperback.

This is the ninth of eighteen installments of the serialized edition of And Then She Was Gone.

Learning is a skill.

I frequently preface and postscript posts where I talk about politics, ethics, religion, philosophy, or other touchy things with the categorical statement “I’m interested in the discussion/conversation.

This is a very long post containing technical information about how data security works, and how it interacts with a social contract.

At long last, Volume 4 of The Clarke Lantham Mysteries comes to paperback, featuring line drawings and new cover art by Kitty NicIaian.

Author’s Introduction Note: This introduction is included in the epub version of the serial which posts to the podcast feed tomorrow, along with the first chapter.

If you envision science-fictiony science projects as children that come in generations, then the generation that gave birth to SETI is a pretty impressive generation indeed.

Okay, you guys asked for it.

It’s no coincidence that food shows up frequently in my books, and often in a starring role.

The end of May is upon us, summer is coming, and with it the opportunity for beach reading, vacation reading, and campfire-side reading.

Hey Everyone — Due to extenuating circumstances, I won’t be able to make Balticon this year.

Yesterday, I wound up in a protracted philosophical argument with Gail Carriger about the relative utility and desirability of cats and dogs.

Despite a complete lack of exertion on my part (due mainly to being so busy I forgot to send in the programming survey), I will indeed be at the Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition.

This post contains language you might not want your boss to read over your shoulder.

Note: Due to extenuating circumstances, I will not be able to make Balticon after all this year.

Clarke Lantham, the hero of my detective series, lives and works around the San Francisco Bay.

Every time I turn around, I see more shared worlds popping up.

I’m very happy to announce the release of the Frock Coat Dreams paperback, complete with a new essay, new poetry, and some beautiful book design by the AWP art department.

Well, things have been busy around here.

At long last, Volumes 2 and 3 of The Clarke Lantham Mysteries are available in paperback!

It is with great pride that I announce the release of my short novel Ideas, Inc., which Alasdair Stuart of…well, everywhere…called “Effortlessly funny, cheerfully dark, and tremendously strange” before he went on to say a whole lot more in this amazing re…

Okay, ladies and germs and those who prefer neither label, I’ve got the RSS feeds working for the Uberfeed, Down From Ten, and The Antithesis Progression.

Well, I’m finally getting the podcast feeds whipped into shape.

Some of you might have run across the sneaky early e-book release already, but this is the official announcement.

Today’s blog post was supposed to be a big release announcement, but I’m holding that for a few hours because I received a wonderful email from Mark Coker (CEO of Smashwords) informing me that my story Control Room is featured as a Breakout Book in the UK…

As I’m winding down to the end of the year, I’m clearing the decks like crazy.

So, a little while ago I said that Free Will was on production hiatus while I resolved some personal emergencies.

Those of you following the Free Will Studio Diaries a couple weeks back will have noticed the sudden halt in what was supposed to be a seven part series.

As the universe has rudely interrupted my studio diaries posts, here’s something to tide you over.