For my first book, GOD’S WAR, I had two rounds of copy edits. One from my original publisher who ended up dropping the series right before it went to layout, and a second round from Night Shade. Both were sent to me in dead tree form. They were bulky, heavy things, but ultimately quite satisfying […]
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When I first starting writing (yanno, back when I was twelve), I didn’t know much about writing point-of-view (POV), so everything was just omniscient, the way it seemed to be in most myths and fairytales and a good deal of older movies with narration attached. The narrator could just tell you what everyone was feeling,
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In case you missed it yesterday, I’ve gotten official word that Night Shade Books will be publishing the third and final book of the Bel Dame Apocrypha, RAPTURE in late 2012. This is wonderfully great and rather surreal news. It also means I now have a book due March 1st (eeeeeyyyyaaaaah). My mom recently asked
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I guess it shouldn’t be odd that such a high percentage of the people who buy books are people who want to be writers. After all, there must be a pretty big percentage of video game players who think it’d be a lot of fun to create video games. Loving an art form often means
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I was strangely broken up this morning to hear about the death of Steve Jobs . It took me a good long while to work out why the hell I’d be upset about some corporate toy maker dying. Then I realized why I was upset, and it kinda pissed me off. On the face of
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Enter for a chance to win! (don’t worry – more chances for free books coming soon!) Goodreads Book Giveaway Infidel by Kameron Hurley Giveaway ends October 02, 2011. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to win
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Just dying to know whose head gets chopped off next? No worries. I’ve got the first three chapters of INFIDEL right here available for download – which includes the first head-hacking scene of the book! Enjoy! Download PDF Read on Scribd (then go
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You’re a racist. Ok? It’s OK. Take a deep breath. It doesn’t mean you have to be a horrible person. I promise. Just… listen. For the most part, I’m addressing white American folks in this particular message, because, you know, I’m white. And American. I get it. I grew up here too, in a white ghetto. But
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Happy 30-days-to-release-of-INFIDEL day! To celebrate, I’ve posted two of three short stories set in the GOD’S WAR universe for free here on the blog and hosted in various places. They’re set during all sorts of… interesting time periods, and you can read them in any order, but if you’d like some direction, I’d recommend reading them in the order offered,
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