TOUR 2011 – Laying The Foundation

So, we’re not too far away from January 2011 when THE KENSEI rolls off the presses from St. Martin’s and lands in bookstores everywhere. As such, I’m starting to put together a massive tour to promote the book.
And I need your help.
I’m looking to do actual signings, blog stops, podcasts, TV, radio, street corners, [...]

The Future for Writers (part 2)

So, in my last post we talked about how a lot of authors (myself included, briefly, when I started doing this full time about a decade back) have relied too much on only one source for their income over the years. And consequently, when that income source is threatened or dissolves in the fashion [...]

The Future for Writers

Over at Robert J. Sawyer’s blog he muses about the future of full-time novelists. The comment section is filled with pessimistic anecdotes about the writing life and how hundreds of working writers will inevitably fade away when the world no longer buys books, or some such thing. Coupled with recent announcements like the [...]

The Week Ahead…

Got a busy week ahead:

I’ll be sending out the next chapter of THE MADAGASCAR MATTER later today. This has been on-hold lately because of the other projects I’ve been involved in as well as some personal stuff that cropped up. In any event, we’ll be back on a regular schedule now, after leaving [...]

Updates…

So, lessee…got a few updates to share…
First of all, I received the first pass typeset pages for THE KENSEI in the mail today. These are basically how the pages will look in the actual book. I need to go through them and spot any typos and report them back. This is usually [...]

Summer Writing Intensive

There’s nothing quite like it. That feeling of walking into the bookstore and seeing your name on the cover of a new release sitting there on the shelf. It’s pretty damn magical, if I do say so myself.
But there’s also nothing quite like the feeling you get when, after waiting for weeks, sometimes [...]

Buy 1 Get 1 FREE

New promo for ebook readers! Here’s the skinny:
Buy a copy of one of my novels (listed below) from Amazon.com, send me the receipt (proof-of-purchase) and I will send you another one of my novels (your choice) absolutely free!
PARALLAX
What happens when two professional assassins – one a Mafia hitman and the other a former German [...]

EBooks & How JA Konrath Makes Me Green With His Green

So, I’m selling ebooks on Amazon’s Kindle. I’m hardly the only author doing this right now – whether it’s traditionally published or “indie” – but I am experiencing far fewer sales than a lot of other folks, and frankly, I have no idea why. The short of it is my stuff simply isn’t [...]

THE MADAGASCAR MATTER – Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fourteen
“You may call me Esmeralda. I am the shaman of the tribe and have been so for more years than I care to remember.”
We sat under a towering baobab tree, atop two small stools carved from tree trunks. In front of us, a small [...]

TV GUYS – Chapter 1

Note: This is a reprint of a column I started writing last year that fizzled out as my schedule got more complex. I’ll be reprinting the columns here over the next few months and then continuing where I left off last year. Enjoy!
If I were pitching my current project as a movie in [...]

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