#walker papers

new blog post: VERY BIG Walker Papers news!

So I have VERY BIG NEWS! News which you might have already heard if you follow me other places, but VERY BIG none-the-less! I have gotten the rights to the Walker Papers back!!! Now, I’ve learned that this is a degree of Writer Speak, so let me translate: I never *lost* the rights, per se. When a publisher buys your book to publish, they *acquire* the rights, which then can, after a certain…

new blog post: Ask The Author: magic systems, sorta

I am implementing an almost-certain-to-be-erratic Friday Blog Post based on reader questions! Today’s question is a very, very old one: “What’s the most difficult part when constructing a system of magic for a world?” That is a Very Good Question. So, like, let’s take the Walker Papers and the Negotiator Trilogy, which are my two longest/best known serieseses. You would not *believe* how many…

JAMES MICHAEL MORRISON. CAPTAIN. SIR.

That is a subordinate coming to ask you about a possible ethical breach. That is NOT the cute girl who laughed at your ass for not being able to identify a classic muscle car. That is NOT the woman who has been tying your insides in knots.

WHY WOULD YOU ASSUME SHE'S ASKING YOU ON A DATE!?!?!?!?

new blog post: Slaying the Dragon: A Walker Papers short story

Once in a while I manage to have my act together enough to present a holiday short story to my readers. This year’s story was inspired by visiting North Carolina for the first time, and driving some of those twisty twisty roads that Joanne is so fond of.

Slaying the Dragonis set five years after the end of SHAMAN RISES, and as such, contains, if not outright spoilers, certainly spoilers by…

new blog post: a Walker Papers 2016 election prediction

I *do* have a throw-away comment about the 2016 election in one of my #WalkerPapers short stories. I thought I did.

The protagonist is Ashley, the little girl from #ThunderbirdFalls, 20 years later:

“I had a grenade launcher. I wasn’t supposed to, of course. Nobody was, especially since the country-wide crackdown after the election riots when I was seventeen.”

The story was written in 2012 and…

I recently realized that every year I start reading a new series (new to me but well established.) Last year (2015) I read the Kate Daniels series, books 1-8. The year before (2014) I read the Walker Papers series. 2013 Iron Druid. 2012 Mercy Thompson.

2016????

Normally I find/start reading it in March/April, but I have been finding a lot of duds the last few months. Or at least ones that don’t retain my interest.

So I’m looking for a new series. One that has at least 5 books currently out.