What a year, huh? But I scraped my way through, and so did you. After a long period of churn in which I wrote 60,000+ words of various openings for my next novel, LOSING GRAVITY, I’ve finally slid it into gear and have about 30k of what will be a 90-100k draft that’s due in December […]
Here’s a roundup of what’s been going on in The Hurleyverse the last few months: The Worldbreaker Saga: New Omnibus Edition! The Worlbreaker Saga is now out in a single convenient ebook format! It includes a never-before-seen epilogue as well as a new introduction by yours truly. Future Artifacts: Stories We’ve sold another short story
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I’ve been publishing novels for ten years, this month, and my first series is still, miraculously, in print. That’s a pretty cool achievement. Both being in print and still being here, still under contract, still writing (albeit slowly, these days). Enduring the highs and lows of publishing and coming out the other side isn’t for
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My academic training is in the history of war and resistance movements, which has given me a lot of context with which to untangle this particular period of political, economic, technological and climate change. Perhaps this understanding of what’s come before is why I’m so frustrated when folks can’t see the same things I do,
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It’s easy to be hard on myself here at the end of 2020. I confidently predicted I’d have another book finished well ahead of my deadline in September. I resolved to spend more time building up the Patreon so I could begin to plan for another attempt at full time writing in the next couple
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The GET TO WORK HURLEY podcast is a monthly rant about the hustle of making a living as a writer of All of the Things. You can support this podcast each month as a Patron or make a one-time donation. EPISODE FIFTEEN: #2020isOver! Let’s talk about how to write through and about trauma and bad shit, answer some listener questions,
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I am exceptionally proud and humbled that The Light Brigade made the Hugo shortlist! 2019 was an amazing year for books. I know it must have been difficult for voters to narrow down their list of favorites. I couldn’t keep up with everything I wanted to read (it’s been a rough timeline!). I do want
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My writing career began, properly, in early 2011 with the publication of God’s War, a book that I’d finished writing back in 2007 and sold both in 2008 and again in 2009. And while I’d had a few short stories published prior, God’s War was the bloody, exciting, bug-filled debut that introduced most folks in
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The GET TO WORK HURLEY podcast is a monthly rant about the hustle of making a living as a writer of All of the Things. You can support this podcast each month as a Patron or make a one-time donation. EPISODE FOURTEEN :Welcome to the Thunder Dome, debut writers! In this episode we talk about what good agents can do you
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NOTE: CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR JOJO RABBIT It’s a surreal time to be aware of – let alone following – the news cycle these days. Government officials proudly admit to crimes on Twitter, in press conferences, and then insist they are not crimes and why are you so triggered by a little treason, anyway? We are
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