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The Crimson Pact, Volume 5 5 Aug 2013 | 02:02 pm
A few years ago my friend Paul Genesse started working on a fantasy/SF/horror anthology with a cool, shared-world premise: there was a world invaded by demons, and a righteous army that sought to dest...
League of Legends and the world of e-sports. 13 Jul 2013 | 02:16 am
I’m a big fan of video games, but one game that I’d never been able to get into was League of Legends–not so much that game specifically as the entire genre it belongs to. If you’re not into video gam...
I’m doing a Reddit AMA tonight! 2 Jul 2013 | 10:37 pm
I’m very excited to announce that I’m doing a Reddit AMA tonight at 7pm, CST. Come one and all! 1) What is a Reddit AMA? If you’ve never heard of this before, or you’ve heard but haven’t known what i...
Some Dan Wells Short Fiction 22 Jun 2013 | 01:27 pm
Two years ago I started a specific effort to try to teach myself how to do short fiction, since it’s not a skill I’d really worked on before. I had some expert help from friends like Mary Robinette Ko...
The BookSmash Challenge 18 Jun 2013 | 01:39 pm
So HarperCollins is doing a cool thing, and I wanted to let you all know about it. The idea is that ebooks could be so much more than they are, but so far nobody’s really figured out what that’s suppo...
Art and Life, Imitating Each Other 6 Jun 2013 | 06:53 pm
PARTIALS, and it’s sequels, are primarily about Kira and her personal journey through the post-apocalyptic world. In designing that world, my editor Jordan Brown and I did a lot of background work (a ...
The Superman Problem, and my bet with my brother 4 Jun 2013 | 04:17 pm
So there’s a new Superman movie coming out soon, and this has prompted many conversations about “The Superman Problem.” I’ve talked about this on Writing Excuses before, and it sums up as this: “If yo...
Chaos and Control 29 Apr 2013 | 03:14 pm
When I wake up in the morning I usually spend 30 minutes or so getting my kids off to school, and then I climb back in bed for a bit to surf the web and check my email and twitter–yes, yes, the glamor...
The Massive Fiction kickstarter 15 Apr 2013 | 03:31 pm
We launched this last week, but that was also our big time to push for Dave Wolverton’s son Ben, with the book bomb and the donations and whatnot, and I didn’t want to overshadow that or dilute your a...
BOOK BOMB! Time to help a great author in big trouble. 10 Apr 2013 | 01:04 pm
Many of you know Dave Wolverton, though some of you may know him by the name David Farland; he publishes SF under the former name, and fantasy under the latter. He goes to conventions all the time, he...
