Three space opera ebooks are available this month for $2.99/each from Tor.

One of them (The Price of the Stars) is one of our good children, still earning money for us after all this time.

(Our apologies to readers overseas who -- due to restrictions on the publishing end over which we have no control -- aren't able to legally purchase these ebooks

Dr. Doyle's Editorial and Critique Service now has a Facebook page.

Now available from Smashwords--three Doyle and Macdonald short story bundles at $2.99 each.

Vampires and Shapeshifters: five stories of horror and the fantastic, dealing with . . . well, what it says on the tin.

Looking for Futures: five science-fiction short stories, including the never before published "Dies Irae".

Ghosts and Legends: a ( Read more... )

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Doyle's Arisia Schedule

Language && Linguistics in SF/F
Sat 11:30 AM

From Tolkien's Elvish, to "Det. Sykes" meaning "Det. S--t-Head" to the Newcomers and the Tamarians' use of metaphor in ST:TNG episode "Darmok"; language, its use and misuse, and barriers to its understanding have provided an interesting and often illustrative backdrop to the ( Read more... )

The Viable Paradise Writer's Workshop is open for submissions.

Instructors this year are Elizabeth Bear, Steve Brust, Steve Gould, Debra Doyle & James D. Macdonald, Patrick and Teresa Nielsen Hayden, and Sherwood Smith.

The workshop is on the island of Martha's Vineyard, home of excellent seafood, amazing vernacular architecture, and (when local ( Read more... )

Starpilot's Grave, the middle book in the original Mageworlds Trilogy, is now up as an e-book for both the Kindle and the Nook.

You know what would make an excellent Christmas present for the writer in your life?

A gift of Dr. Doyle's Editorial Services, that's what!

The current revolution in electronic publishing is like the California Gold Rush† in a lot of ways.

• It's real.
  
  Underneath all the hype and ballyhoo and frenzied hysteria of 1849 lay a bedrock of sober fact: There really was gold in the California hills.
  
  Today, a similar feverish atmosphere surrounds electronic publishing, and in particular ( Read more... )

This year's Viable Paradise workshop is now officially over. All that remains is the annual staff&instructors meeting, and then tomorrow we leave the island for another year ( Read more... )