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My writing finances, 2025
Maybe you thought I’d forgotten. Ha, I say. Ha! Not sure why this is starting on such a confrontational note, but there we are then. Anyway, here we are again at the beginning of a brand new year. And, like last year, it’s somewhat of a milestone for me: March will mark 20 years of…
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Take the day off with a new Galactic Cold War story!
Last year’s publication of The Armageddon Protocol might have been the final novel in the Galactic Cold War, but that doesn’t mean the universe doesn’t still have some stories left to tell. And let’s be clear: I’ve spent a long time thinking about and writing in this world. Close to twenty-five years, at this point.…
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I’ll take “Bucket List” for $400, Ken
[A version of this post appeared on Six Colors.] Years ago, when I was working my first post-college job in web development and IT, I found myself totally burned out. One day, sitting at my computer, I opened up a blank Word document and just started writing down all the things I wanted to be…
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Ten years of Inconceivable!
This week’s episode of The Incomparable’s Game Show podcast—its 250th!—also happens to mark the tenth anniversary of my game show, Inconceivable!. In fact, we recorded this episode ten years to the day of the first episode’s release, which was also, coincidentally, the first episode of Game Show. Fun how that all works out. To celebrate,…
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Award eligibility for 2024
It’s been a while since I put up a formal awards eligibility post, but it’s a new year and, if not a new me then at least a mildly updated me, so let’s do it. In 2024, I published two works: the final Galactic Cold War novel, The Armageddon Protocol, and a Galactic Cold War…
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My writing finances, 2024
January? In this economy? I don’t have a lot of new year’s rituals, but the one I have done the best job at sticking with over the past several years is that every January, I look back over the past twelve months and run down my finances for the no-doubt millions of you who are…
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Ten years of writing the future
Ten years ago today I was at Macworld‘s San Francisco office, having flown in to cover the announcement of the iPhone 6 and the original Apple Watch the previous day. Mid-morning, as I was still working on some pieces about the event, I was summoned to an all-hands meeting with most of my colleagues, and…
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My writing finances, 2023
With apologies to one of my favorite public radio hosts, it’s time to do the numbers. Yes, every year around this time I compile a bunch of information about my writing (and podcasting) finances from the past twelve months and post them online for all to see. Why? Self-indulgence? Morbid curiosity? Some deep-rooted issue with…
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One week until ALL SOULS LOST
The leaves are changing, the pumpkin spice is flowing, and hard as it is to believe, there’s just a week left until All Souls Lost is out. It’s always a little bittersweet when, after years of working on a project, you reach the moment when it’s no longer just a story that lives in your…
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All Souls Lost, a brand new novel, coming this October
I’m going to give myself a finally on this one. Back in the summer of 2014, I was still working full-time as an editor at Macworld and I hadn’t yet sold my first novel, but having written the first two Galactic Cold War books, I felt like I needed to take a break, cleanse my…