Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! The Thief and The Demon is on sale this week. Thief gets in trouble, then more trouble, then more trouble, then more. Every choice can lead to death, but he seeks freedom, and, eventually, redemption. The Demon also seeks freedom, but primarily craves power. The two are bound …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Politics and Religion. Religion and politics. The advice is not to talk about it in polite company. So I wrote a book centered on faith and religion, and I’m writing a book about politics, power, and the self-serving nature of rulers. These are the choices of the writer …
Continue reading Religion and Politics and a Cover Upgrade! (Hardback coming soon!)
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! This is my third stab at this blog. I’ve missed weekly deadlines as a result. Originality warning! There isn’t any here, but I wanted to say it anyway. The world is a complex place. We are complex creatures. But we delight in reducing the complex to the simple, …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! I hope you have had a great week. Mine was good, if littered with snowy commutes of which I am not fond. Experiments in marketing go on. Self-education on many fronts continue to be delayed, which is a little depressing because I keep adding things to the pile …
Continue reading Plans for the Future, and Religion in Fantasy
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! The front cover is finalized, with paperback and hardback layouts to come. The formatting corrections are in process. I have been brave and put The Killer and The Dead up for review on BookSirens. This is part of my time to embrace new aspects of book business, and …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Third version of cover has been seen. Close, so close. I have proofed the formatting in the book version of the manuscript. Twenty seven changes later it is complete. Should have been fewer, I know. There were a few hiccups I think I could go back to… but …
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! Cover art is almost there! I am proofing the formatted version of the book, and it is hard reading the words again, for what seems like the millionth time. I’ve had doubts, but writers always do. I’ve also had bursts of pleasure, where the words, even a million …
Continue reading The ARC of the Universe is Long, and Bends Toward… Playing Pool?
Hello, my friends and the occasional relative! How many times can a book be finished? Many many times. Given that, I have finished making the final proofing corrections. So from my perspective the book is done. I will still read it again, because the last thing I did was a specific word check, and as …
Roderick T. Macdonald 