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Ask the Companions

It’s been awhile since we’ve talked, hasn’t it?  So many sleepless nights, so many questions flickering like little fireflies through the air that quietly sputter out and fall like dark stars on the cold, dead earth.  ”When will he update

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Girls Gone Moral

A writer has one responsibility: to tell her or his story.

I want you to keep that in mind as you read the rest of this post, because it’s going to be important to the rest of what I’m going…

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The Terrible Truth

I was browsing the Something Awful forums this morning and happened to see something that connects pretty well (if indirectly) to what I was discussing in my last post.  I can only give credit via their name, but forums user…

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I’ve Had a Few

Sometimes, I wish I had been rejected more.

It was a peculiar thought process that led me to this peculiar thought.

See, I’ve been busting pieces of my various anatomy to finish The Skybound Sea.  It’s been going quite well,…

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Link Round-Up

You are probably wondering where I have been for the past week or so!  Perhaps you noticed it when you looked outside your window and noticed that there were fewer stars in the sky!  Or maybe you just remarked on…

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Ham-Handed Commentary

So, my good friend Daniel Abraham, author of The Long Price Quartet and The Dragon’s Path published this on SFSignal yesterday.

It is a love letter from genre to literature.  It is quite sweet.  It is…

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Ozymandias is still a jerk

Chances are, if you’re a writer–professional, aspiring, tech, vengeful–you don’t need another reason to despair.  The economy stinks, publishing is pretty selective, agents are harder to come by, the ice caps are melting and soon polar bears will be moving…

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Cool Fan Stuff

You might remember Tiffny Gibson from her great entry in the Draw This Dog section of one of my giveaways.  She has graciously come to me to inform me that I have some of the coolest fans ever.

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Genderesque

I have no idea what it is about art that makes us feel we need to label it.

Well, that’s not entirely true.  I have some idea.  I acknowledge, certainly, our need to understand and discuss art and, certainly, were…

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My Cold Electric Heart

So, by the time you read this, Black Halo, the second book in the Aeons’ Gate trilogy, will be out on Kindle, after far too many months of existing in that bleak, horrifying electric limbo where the Virtual Boy and…

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Who is Sam?

Sam Sykes is the author of The Aeons’ Gate trilogy, a vast and sprawling story of adventure, demons, madness and carnage.  Suspected by many to be at least tangentially related to most causes of human suffering, Sam Sykes is also a force to be reckoned with beyond literature.

At 25, Sykes is one of the younger authors to have arrived on the stage of literary fantasy.  Tome of the Undergates and Black Halo are currently published in nine countries.  He currently resides in the United States and is probably watching you read this right now.

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