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A J Hartley

Act of Will

Anthology

Dragons Lure w/david

David B Coe

Dark Eyes

Faith Hunter

Blood Cross

Misty Massey

Mad Kestrel

Aren’t you excited?

Somehow, the vast majority of the people with whom I work did not know that I had written and sold a novel. I don’t really know how they missed it, since I wasn’t what you’d call reticent about the subject. My book comes out next week, and I have signings [...]

Fantasy: Fluff or Social Commentary.

Lots of stuff to say this week. I’m starting a day early offline because of that. Wordy, ain’t I?

My Alter Ego, hereafter referred to as AE, went to a book conference this past weekend. In the new RV which I lovelovelovelove. (Nice queen bed instead of the narrow twins in the old RV, closet space [...]

shameless self-promotion

My thought process just now: Tuesday! It’s Tuesday! I’m supposed to blog on Tuesdays! What am I going to blog about? Ack! Ack! Ack!

This was followed by, “Duh. HOUSE OF CARDS is out today. Obviously today’s blog is about shameless self-promotion.”

Actually, I really hate that phrase. I think it [...]

More than An Escape

Expanding a bit on Misty’s wonderful post the other day, “What Drugs Were You On When You Wrote This?”….

There are lots of attitudes I encounter with respect to the kind of writing I do, ranging from the general snobbery directed at genre novels by writers and readers of so-called Literary Fiction, to the less offensive [...]

An Exercise in Inertia

Slight mix-up this week with the blogging days, and so I didn’t get to post earlier in the week.  Hence, a Friday post…

People often ask me what I believe to be the hardest part of writing.  The glib, noncommittal response I usually give is that there are as many answers to this as there are writers.  Some of us struggle [...]

What drugs were you on when you wrote this?

Long ago, when I was a shy newbie writer with only a few short stories under my belt, I took the plunge and joined a writing critique group.  At the time, we were composed of two retired gentlemen who wrote westerns and science fiction, one teenaged poet, one published mystery novelist and me.  The first [...]