September 2010

Trailer for Geist

September 30, 2010

Swimming with the big fish still means I need to get the word out about Geist, and this has pretty much been consuming my life for the last month. One of the things I wanted to do was create a book trailer- but there was one big problem- yeah… my lack of video skills. Luckily [...]

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The first Geist review…and it’s a Harriet!

September 28, 2010

This is a bit of a nerve wracking time for me. My first big New York City book, and I am gearing up for the reviews. So when my Google Alert told me that someone had reviewed Geist, I was excited and nervous… and then I found out it was from Harriet Klausner The key [...]

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Love and fire

September 19, 2010

A while back I wrote a short story for my good friend PG Holyfield. The Tales of the Children are set in the world of Caern, and supported the release of Patrick’s Murder at Avedon Hill. Writing in another person’s universe was a really fun opportunity, and it was nice to get to play with [...]

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From out of the Cloud…

September 13, 2010

I’m writing this post, spurred by Speculative Fiction Writers of New Zealand (which just recently launched) and New Zealand Spec Fic Blogging Week. I was casting about thinking about what I could contribute- then I realised it was staring me in the face. You see, this past week I submitted a synopsis and three chapters [...]

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We’re still here

September 6, 2010

An email from a concerned fan, made me realise that I have not addressed the large earthquake in New Zealand that happened on the weekend. I was in Melbourne, Australia on Saturday morning, attending WorldCon. To put it in perspective, that’s almost the distance from LA to New York- so I didn’t feel it. However [...]

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Blogging all around the world

September 6, 2010

I arrived home from a very fun, very informative, very useful WorldCon in Melbourne (blogpost to come on that), to find the uncorrected proofs of Geist. These are not the final product, but still being able to actually hold my bound words was quite the moment, and one more step towards the novel in stores. [...]

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