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Finally! After more than 20 years, I have finished The Fetch. It came in at 106,200 words, which is roughly 30,000 more than it had when I returned to seriously working on it early this year. Am I happy with it? I don’t know yet. It still needs some work. I was developing the laws…

Okay, ya’ll know I don’t promote other people’s books or music very often, right? I could say that’s because I don’t have much time for reading, but that would cheapen what I’m about to say, eh? Especially since I haven’t even read the book in question. Tomorrow, August 1, is the release date for carriejones…

I went up to the school today to drop off the towering stack of anthologies I got at the AP workshop last week, and do various other things. I’m still working on a layout for the desks. The room isn’t big enough for what I’d like to do, but I think I’ll go with what…

I meant to mention this earlier, but with all the fun of Conestoga, it kind of fell through the cracks. A while back I got to wondering about my short story “Reunion” and the movie deal with Blackridge Entertainment. So I e-mailed Dean for an update, and was beginning to think I’d fired another e-mail…

I’m home! May not seem like such a big deal, but I’d actually been gone for a full week. I left last Sunday for an Advanced Placement workshop at the University of Tulsa that lasted until around 11 a.m. on Friday. That was fun. I learned a lot and still look forward to teaching AP…

Conestoga has never been this much fun before. Don’t get me wrong, it’s always a great con, but this year has been the best one I’ve ever attended. I’ve been in panels in the big rooms that were packed and standing room only. There are more big-name published authors here than ever before. Lots of…