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Community and Genre, part 2, and Another Giveaway!

Posted on August 5, 2015 by dbjackson

Surely there is room in this genre for quiet stories and loud ones, for the old-fashioned and the new-and-weird, for space opera and epic fantasy, for military SF and urban fantasy, for writers of all races, religions, sexual orientations, and … Continue reading →

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Today I Talk Books With Mermaids

Posted on July 31, 2015 by dbjackson

Choosing three books that changed my life, even if it’s just for the purposes of a blog tour, is a little like choosing “Three Meals That Helped me Grow Big and Strong.” Sort of. Actually, no one would ever accuse … Continue reading →

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Dealing with Inaccuracies in my New Book

Posted on January 19, 2015 by dbjackson

Yesterday I received one of those emails that authors usually hate to get. A reader wrote to let me know that there were a couple of details in my new novel, Spell Blind (book I in The Case Files of … Continue reading →

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SPELL BLIND is Now Available for E-Readers!!

Posted on December 29, 2014 by dbjackson

Some of you have already contacted me about this, and I have noticed it on several bookseller sites:  The hardcover edition of Spell Blind, the first book in my new series, The Case Files of Justis Fearsson, will be published … Continue reading →

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Two Days on the Blog Tour

Posted on July 23, 2014 by dbjackson

I was on the road yesterday, driving home from North Carolina after a fun and successful signing tour that began with a book launch party at ConGregate in Winston-Salem, and then took me to Rock Hill, SC, Gastonia, NC, Richmond, … Continue reading →

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Two New Posts and a Giveaway on the Blog Tour

Posted on July 16, 2014 by dbjackson

Another day on the Summer 2014 Plunder of Souls Blog Tour, another couple of posts. Today, I’m visiting another writer friend, Alyx Dellamonica, with a post about the things I read as a child.  It was a fun post to … Continue reading →

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A Post About My New E-Reader

Posted on May 23, 2014 by dbjackson

I’m over at SFNovelists today — that’s the site I help to maintain with over one hundred other published authors of fantasy and science fiction.  I’m writing about my new E-reader in a post called “My New E-Reader and Me:  … Continue reading →

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A Post About a Writer’s Resolutions

Posted on December 23, 2013 by dbjackson

Today’s post can be found at the SFNovelists blog, a site I help to maintain with over one hundred other published authors in speculative fiction.  The post is called “Writing Resolutions for the Coming Year,” and it is my annual … Continue reading →

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Fall’s Here, and the Blog Tour Rolls On!

Posted on September 23, 2013 by dbjackson

It is officially fall, so I suppose that the Summer 2013 Thieves’ Quarry Blog Tour has to be over. But the Fall Blog Tour is now underway and today I am all over the place.  I have my usual Monday … Continue reading →

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Blog Tour Post on Publishing Trends and Technology

Posted on September 16, 2013 by dbjackson

With summer almost over, the Summer 2013 Thieves’ Quarry Blog Tour makes one of its last stops at Magical Words, the group blog on the craft and business of writing that I maintain with Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, Mindy Klasky, … Continue reading →

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