Broos Campbell

A minor update from the Authors Guild's lawsuit against Google. It seems to have settled into a holding action rather than an assault on Google's formidable defenses, but it has some interesting and hopeful things to say.

Is it a good thing that Amazon backed down in its pricing war with Macmillian this weekend? I think—or feel is probably more accurate—that it costs less to produce an ebook than a print book. (more…)

Prices at the big tag sale at McBooks Press are down to half off, so get on over before the sale ends on January 19. McBooks is getting out of the book-selling business to concentrate on publishing their fine line of historicals, including (more…)

The close-out sale at McBooks Press seems to be going well. McBooks is getting out of the book-selling business to concentrate on publishing their fine line of historicals, including (ahem) my own, and (more…)

Fans of nautical fiction in general and hot pirate sex in particular might want to go to Lisa Jensen's blog, where she's posted the first chapter of the sequel to (more…)

Speaking of maps—which I was a couple of days ago, down below there a bit—here's the map page at Michael Jasper's website. I don't know Jasper, except that he's big on maps, but I think my own love of maps lets me claim a certain kinship. And maybe his maps aren't as elegant as the ones in, say, (more…)

Jonathan Galassi, president and publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, writes in the January 3 edition of the New York Times about what exactly it is that a publisher does for an author. He makes a number of interesting points, (more…)

If a book has a map, I'll at least try to read it. Even if you don't intend to include a map with the finished book, I blah-bla-blahed recently on a writing forum, sketching one out is a handy way of keeping track of what lives where in your made-up world. Another benefit? (more…)

James L. Nelson just announced that he's finished his 15th book, the rotting bastard. General Washington's Great Gamble is about how the French navy bottled up Cornwallis at Yorktown, ensuring a great victory for Rochambeau and (more…)

I've been swearing up and down to my editor that I'd start a blog, and it seemed fitting to start out with something nice for myself. It is the Christmas season, after all.

Tom Knapp over at the Tall ships & the briny deep page at Rambles.NET gives a pair of peg-legs up to No Quarter, the first (more…)