Self-Publishing after all…

Well, ‘Rage of Angels’ is out and launches officially on May 26th. Huh? Yep, we decided to self-publish after all. We were going to try the traditional route to publish this but have changed our minds. First we submitted it to a literary agent, who was...

Submit, Puny Human!

While most publishers will accept a manuscript in digital format it seems that our prospective literary agent will not. He attributes this to the natural inclination of Literary Agents to read while lying as supine as possible, their head and shoulders elevated just...

‘The Shield Maiden’ revisited.

At the dawn of the 1990’s my first wife and I moved to New York City for the express purpose of working in publishing.  Well, that was her express purpose; mine was to live in the same city with Katya, then my wife.  Nonetheless I got to know the folks at Tor...

Rage of Angels Recap-

OK, now that the book is finally going out for editing I thought I’d offer a recap; it’s been so long I’m not sure anyone but us remembers anymore… Set a few decades in the future, ‘Rage of Angels’ is what happens when smart but...

The Light at the End of the Tunnel…

Our latest novel has frankly take far longer than it should have.  There were a lot of distractions over the summer and fall.  Necessary stuff to be sure but it slowed things down, sometimes to a crawl.  Then just as I thought things were wrapping up I realized I was...

Rage of Angels and “Gadgets”

So as some of you may know Michael does most of the grunt writing while I do a lot of brainstorming with him, the research and editing of said grunt writing. As much as I love this man with all my heart, he can get so caught up in the details of stuff. In a novel,...