I read Memory of Light, the final volume of the mega-series The Wheel of Time, a few weeks ago. I set out to write my review the next day, and then reconsidered. For this one, I felt I needed to wait a bit before delving into this. It would be…
Go to Amazon right NOW! Today, you can get NEXUS for $1.99 for your Kindle! If you don't have a Kindle, download the FREE KINDLE APP, and read this book! NEXUS by my good friend Ramez Naam is one of those books you don't want…
I should be working on either The Legacy of the Dragon Bone Flute or Book Four of Tears of Rage, but I feel compelled instead to speak once again on something that's been bugging me for a while and has kind of come to a head recently. This…
I'd like to welcome my good friend Christopher Kellen to the blog today. Chris is the author of the Arbiter Codex books as well as the Elements of Sorcery series of novellas set in the same world. He's set to release the third story in that…
Greetings to all my Tears of Rage readers out there. I know many of you are itching for some tidbit of book four, and I'm happy to say I've been plugging away at it a little here and there after taking some time off to work…
The best books are those that stay with you, that make you think about the questions they ask long after you put it down. In his stellar debut novel, Ramez Naam does exactly that. Naam offers us a near-future, roller-coaster adventure that will grab you by the throat and won&…
Between my storytelling show, Science Fiction conventions, and random author events I make quite a few public appearances throughout the year. I'm always trying to come up with new ways make my shows (yeah, I count pretty much every time I get in front of people a "…
I am an avid Harry Dresden fan! Love the books. Been hooked since I read page one of Storm Front. I've felt every Dresden book has gotten successively better than the last, up until Ghost Story. While I liked Ghost Story, I was prepared for it to not…
"There is then creative reading as well as creative writing." - Ralph Waldo Emerson. Today's SPELLPUNK post will be late, if it happens at all. You can thank my writer buddy, Ramez Naam for that. The other night, I started reading his debut novel, Nexus when…
One of my all-time favorite moments on my wife being supportive of my writing came while I was working on Arms of the Storm, book three in the Tears of Rage sequence. I was dragging my feet writing a scene where a particular character had to die. Yes, for a…
