web analytics

The beautiful pain in my back

So I’m there on Friday evening, the cable freshly installed and one game already watched, preparing to go to Book Expo on the Saturday when I turn and CRACK! Blinding pain shoots through my back and it’s all I can do to lower myself to the hardwood floor....

First look at “A United Force”

I’ve decided that spring and fall are the two best times for authors because it’s when they finally get to see their hard fought words, untangled plots and fleshed-out characters come to life. Spring and fall are when the new books hit the stores. This...

Shocking the States

A few weeks ago, I was talking to an editor at Stone Arch Books about Blackbeard’s Last Stand, the piratey graphic novel I wrote for them, due out in spring 2007. The conversation turned to my first published graphic novel, System Shock, published in the UK by...

Real World of Pirates

Real World of Pirates book covers One of the best things about writing a book (besides the worldwide celebrity it brings) is seeing the artwork and covers for the first time. When you’re writing a book or an article or anything really, you only see it as a plain old...