Category: ad-pre-2021
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The Demon in Business Class AUDIOBOOK
Laura Petersen’s gorgeous narration takes you on a fantastic journey across Europe, America and Asia, with secret magic, international conspiracies, and star-crossed lovers. Put on those headphones and fly!
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Quarantine Inspiration on The Inner Loop Radio!
The Inner Loop is a Washington DC live-reading group that hosts fiction, non-fiction and poetry writers at monthly events. I’ve been pleased and proud to read work there twice. They also run a terrific podcast on all aspects of writing. This week I’m part of their Qurantine Inspiration Series, with my own 12-minute creative stimulus…
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BIG NEWS! A new edition of The Demon in Business Class!
The Demon in Business Class gets a gorgeous new edition in May 2020! Sign up to get an Advance Review Copy!
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The bad news is, I was right
I’m finishing my second novel, but in the last few months I’ve spent some time with my first, The Demon in Business Class, as it enters a new medium. The amazing voice actor Laura Petersen has recorded the audiobook — early spring release! don’t worry, I’ll be posting about it. I’ve been pitching in doing…
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I grieve for my beloved Hong Kong
It has bad air. I was still a smoker when I worked there, and I joked it was protective. It’s impossibly expensive, though plenty of people live there cheaply. It’s a culture clash, crash, and fusion — Chinese and Anglo, old and new, rich and poor, metropolitan and tropical, high-pressure and laid-back. It’s fast, so…
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On being good at sales
I am a fierce fan of my stuff. It’s not for everyone, but it’s for more than might initially see themselves buying it.
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The safe bummer of legal marijuana
In the small clear-plastic cube on the counter were two shelves of smoking accessories. On the top shelf, clear glass pipes printed with silhouette men and women having sex; on the bottom shelf, blister packages of metal pipe and grinder combos, in Jamaican flag colors, with a Bob-Marley-ish face in the grinder. The gear was…
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Science-fiction is neither cyberpunk nor broken
In his new Slate essay, Lee Konstantinou opines that Something is Broken in Our Science Fiction. He isn’t really talking about science-fiction, so much as its subgenre of cyberpunk, which certainly still influences science-fiction subgenre naming, from steampunk to hopepunk. I’m not sure that cyberpunk has more influence than that these days – but let’s…
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First look at Business Class Tarot!
COMING FALL 2018 Are you a business person, entrepreneur, or maker? Do you work where product meets brand? Where data and money become one? BUSINESS CLASS TAROT™ See the Present — Change the Future Tarot cards have centuries of wisdom about human nature and power dynamics, hidden behind obscure symbols and outdated worldviews. BUSINESS CLASS…
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Thoughts on Eden while mowing my lawn
In the book of Genesis, Adam and Eve eat from the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil on the serpent’s advice, “know their nakedness,” and are thrown from the garden to a life of toil and want – the original sin that in Christianity, Christ died to forgive. This sin of the apple is…