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Professional Wednesday: Most Important Lessons — Trust Yourself, Trust Your Reader

Posted on March 9, 2022 by dbjackson

Today, I’m introducing a new feature for my Professional Wednesday posts: “Most Important Lessons.” We are coming up on the 28th anniversary of the start of my career (which I trace to the offer I received from Tor Books on … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: Some Weird Occurrences Have Me Thinking About Technology

Posted on March 7, 2022 by dbjackson

This past week, I had a couple of weird experiences that made me feel like I was an extra in Poltergeist or Enemy of the State. And I thought I would share them with you because if I’m freaked out, … Continue reading →

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Professional Wednesday: Down Time Is Not Wasted Time — A Guest Post From JD Blackrose

Posted on March 2, 2022 by dbjackson

My friend JD Blackrose has a new book coming out — Demon Kissed, a novel I was happy to blurb. Today she drops some writing wisdom on us. Read on! You won’t get your best ideas sitting at your desk. … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: About That Professional News I Mentioned Two Months Ago…

Posted on February 28, 2022 by dbjackson

Nearly two months ago, early in the new year, I posted on social media that I had some exciting professional news I couldn’t share quite yet. I was thrilled, and wanted to let people know. But I also didn’t want … Continue reading →

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Professional Wednesday: My Editing Journey

Posted on February 23, 2022 by dbjackson

Earlier this week, in the closing entry to my “How I Started Writing” series, I had a kind of throwaway line about how I would likely spend more of 2022 editing the work of other people than writing my own … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: How I Started Writing — A Case Study of Dubious Worth, Epilogue

Posted on February 21, 2022 by dbjackson

This week I conclude my series of posts on how I came to be a professional writer. You can read the previous posts before moving on with this one. We’ll wait. [Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV] There! … Continue reading →

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Professional Wednesday: Top Ten Reasons You Need INVASIVES!!

Posted on February 16, 2022 by dbjackson

In case the daily teasers and cover art reveals and previous blog posts all failed to tip you off, this is release week for Invasives, the second Radiants novel. It comes out on Friday, February 18! Yay!! Release weeks are … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: How I Started Writing — A Case Study of Dubious Worth, part IV

Posted on February 14, 2022 by dbjackson

Continuing my series on how I came to be a professional writer . . . (Here are links to Part I, Part II, and Part III) When we left off last week, I had just received 1) an offer to … Continue reading →

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Professional Wednesday: A Rant About Rejections and Quitting

Posted on February 9, 2022 by dbjackson

As many of you know, I am once again co-editing an anthology for Zombies Need Brains, Joshua Palmatier’s speculative fiction imprint. This is my fourth year as a co-editor, and each year Joshua follows pretty much the same approach to … Continue reading →

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Monday Musings: How I Started Writing — A Case Study of Dubious Worth, part III

Posted on February 7, 2022 by dbjackson

Today I continue my series of posts on how I got started in writing. (If you want to catch up, you can find the first post here, and the second post here.) The subtitle of this collection of posts is … Continue reading →

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