by David | Apr 12, 2013 | Articles, Fictorians
I have written and sold one collaborative novel, and I’m in the middle of writing another, so I have some experience in this sub-specialty of our craft. Once you’ve gotten past the “Let’s write a novel together! It’ll be fun/great/a...
by David | Mar 20, 2013 | Articles
As a writer, you can’t sit still. As soon as you finish one project, you have to begin another one. Keeping the momentum going can be important. In this case, I had put a novel on hold while I wrote the Byron and Gotthilf story, It’s entitled The Span...
by David | Mar 16, 2013 | Articles, Fictorians
This is a combined public service announcement and post. My first novel will be published in October by Baen Books. The title is 1636: The Devil’s Opera, and it’s a collaboration with Eric Flint. The cover-illustration by the great Tom Kidd-is here....
by David | Mar 13, 2013 | Articles
It will be available in October 2013. And here’s the cover. Tom Kidd is one of the greatest artists around.
by David | Feb 4, 2013 | Articles, Fictorians
“There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, and every single one of them is right!” – Rudyard Kipling Every writer does things a little bit differently, and that’s just as true of building/creating characters as it is of any...
by David | Dec 24, 2012 | Articles, Fictorians
This is a very different article than I had planned to post. As I write this, it is the day after a very unsane (as opposed to insane) young man named Adam Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and started shooting people. By the...
