Navigating an increasingly artificial world Writing sometimes feels like it's 90% reading. You read to keep current in your genre, you read outside your genre to experience different ways of telling stories, and then you read and re-read your own work in multiple rounds of editing. Reading in-genre has been the hardest for me. I've already read all the big ones. All the Gibson and Stephenson, and all the newer entries like Napper as well. There just aren't that many cyberpunk books available...

One Day Lucky can now be used to physically assault people A very heavy box showed up at my house this week. It was one thing to have the proof copy in my hands, but now I have an actual stack of One Day Lucky sitting on my desk. I was going to set them all up like a little bookstore shelf while I prepped the goodies that will be tucked into the boxes with them when I send them out next week, but that just made me realize that this is all even stranger than just having a copy of my own book....

Some work, some waiting, and some stuff to read. After a few misses with the printed proofs for One Day Lucky, I have a surreally delightful hard copy in my hand. The cover art looks amazing (thanks Dave Law) and I am happy with the overall design after my wife/creative director pointed out a few changes that made a massive difference to the title layout. I've now ordered a case of books so for those of you that are waiting for a physical copy, it will be on the way to you soon. In-between...