I’ve been sharing blurbs for Cracking the Ice, my novel due out in July and here’s another. (A blurb is that glowing quote that when potential readers see it on the cover, prompts them to plunk down their hard-earned cash.) This next blurb comes from Jewell Parker Rhodes, author of Ninth Ward, a 2011 Coretta […]
Reading list
I’ll be taking a Short Story Writing workshop soon with the incomparable Kristine Kathyrn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith. Here’s the reading list of five anthologies that I need to read in six weeks. Care to join me? Best American Short Stories 2007 edited by Stephen King Best Science Fiction & Fantasy of the Year Volume […]
A $23 million book or Online pricing run amuck
Check out this story about a book — one in developmental biology about flies, of all things — that eventually rose to a price of over twenty-three million dollars on Amazon. Presumably it had the ultra-deluxe cover.
Bubba Goes for Broke released
Pentucket Publishing has just released my crime caper novel, Bubba Goes for Broke, written under the pen name David Bawdy. It’s available in all electronic formats; a trade paperback will be released in the summer. Since it’s an R-rated novel — you might call it bawdy — I felt compelled to use a pen name to distinguish this book from my […]