Howard Andrew JonesContest Results Finalizing
Tuesday, July 31, 2012
Hello all — just a quick note today, as the morning’s waning and I have a lot of words left to write before day’s end. I’m making a…
Riding for the Range
Monday, July 30, 2012
I had a fairly pleasant weekend here at our tower on the shore of the Sea of Monsters. I had dinner Saturday with some old friends, and courtesy…
Strep Throat
Thursday, July 26, 2012
Blech. No new updates today. My poor wife came down with strep throat and was feeling so bad she called in to work to stay home. With strep,…
Pies and Plans and an Update
Wednesday, July 25, 2012
I finished reviewing galleys for the second Dabir and Asim book yesterday, The Bones of the Old Ones, drove them over to the post office, and sent them…
Medal of Honor
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
I had planned a series of articles this week about research and the writing process. But if you’re a writer, you must write, and today I found myself…
Thinking of Heroes
Monday, July 23, 2012
As I’ve been pondering villainy and heroes over the last few days, I thought it a good time to revisit an old post I’d made on the Black…
The Real Caliph
Friday, July 20, 2012
When I decided to set the Dabir and Asim stories in historical Arabia, I likewise decided that while I would emulate the real world, I’d also pay homage…
Today’s My Birthday
Thursday, July 19, 2012
So you may have heard that today’s my birthday. What do I want apart from universal peace and brotherhood and some quality time with my family? (And maybe…
Galleys, then ARCs, then… the Book!
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
My galleys arrived the other day. Those are the printed copies of pages as they will look (as far as spacing and fonts) once they’re actually bound into…
Hannibal’s Words
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
I suppose a lot of writers are weird kids. I was, though I was enough of an introvert you couldn’t necessarily tell by looking just how weird. I…
