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One of the things I love about selling books at conventions is that it gives me a really visceral sense of what readers are responding to and what interests them. It makes it easy to come away excited about future projects.

Right now, I’m excited about converting more of the SPACE HOUNDS! webcomic into a second graphic novel, writing a Tri-Galactic Trek Chronicle about the rabbit bartender inspired by Guinan, and possibly actually getting around to writing a sequel to Nexus Nine… Continue reading “Trekking Back from Vegas”

Went to the Backstreet Boys concert at the Sphere last night…. between the crowd, surreally dressed in all white sparkles, and architecture with flashy glowing everywhere, it felt like literally walking into a nightmare I had about going to the Eras tour…

But that screen. Wow. Continue reading “Trek in Vegas & Backstreet Boys at the Sphere”

Fourteen hour drive to the big Star Trek convention? No problem. That’s just listening to the Strange New Worlds musical episode soundtrack 28 times.

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My brain’s usual overriding algorithm — if you hear Star Trek related words, that’s exciting and worth attention — does not work very well at this gigantic Star Trek convention.

I keep hearing Star Trek related words from every direction, and my brain is overloading. Continue reading “Trekking to Vegas”

I’ve got two wildly different books up for pre-order right now…

The eighth book in the TRI-GALACTIC TREK CHRONICLES comes out in August, and then the third book in the XENO-SPECTRE trilogy comes out in September. Though, I will have some early copies for sale at WorldCon!

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Daniel and I were torn between three different movies to watch on our anniversary, so we asked Claude for better ideas… it’s suggestions were terrible. So we asked GPT, and now our list is up to four. Continue reading “Book Pre-Orders and Anniversary Planning”

I do have to wonder a bit what we’re even doing as a society when writers are fighting tooth and nail to not have their stories be in places where people can still read them.

And yeah, I know… but still.

The line between “stolen” and “lovingly preserved” is so precariously thin these days. Continue reading “The Bubble and the Burning”

If you look at my publication history, I started releasing books a lot faster since AI. I know haters assume I use AI to write. (They give me one-star reviews on books that came out before AI. Rolls eyes.)

The truth is: getting dropped by my publisher made more of a difference. Continue reading “Writing Faster, Getting Back to IaDW2, and Finishing XS3”

“Smile Ex Machina” is the opening track to a ridiculously stupid or maybe ambitious project…

A space opera album inspired by and following the map of Brian Wilson’s SMiLE.

“A masterpiece (or trash?)
The line is thin
We’re walking it” Continue reading “Insipid Liner Notes: Cobalt Starstrong and His Winning Smile”

—Keanu Reeves played the room in Backrooms
—I keep expecting to see Señor Cardgage
—The Blair Room Project
—Haunted house genre for a generation that can’t afford home ownership
—Alice in Furniture Land
—Through the Looking Wall Continue reading “Things my husband texted me while watching Backrooms:”

I’m illustrating my book, In a Dog’s World, chapter by chapter for posting to Deep Sky Anchor, and it’s weird how much the workflow has changed since I did this for Discovery of the Wanderlust in October.

Back then, it was easiest to work directly with the image generators.

Now, it’s easiest to have Fable read the book and write out a full set of matching prompts. Then when Gemini/GPT1.5 give me trouble, I complain to Fable, and it reworks the whole document of prompts. Continue reading “New Illustration Workflow”

I was not prepared for Ty to die… he’s in all the pictures advertising the show. I just assumed he’d stay a main character all the way up until I catch up with real time.

I know it’s different, but it feels like Alex Karev all over again.

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I just saw a trailer for Slow Horses before the episode of Trying that I was about to watch… Continue reading “Heartland, Eternity, Dr. Grant, Etc.”