Broos Campbell

I'll be at the West Hollywood Book Fair on Sun., Oct. 2, 1-2 p.m. and 3-5 p.m. Come on by and say hi. In fact, tell me you saw this post and I'll give you a free book, stocks permitting. Can't ask fairer than that.
Unless it's free parking, free admission and free shuttle service.

I love that map thinger dinger down there on the lower left of this site's home page. It shows where visitors are when they click on this site. I'm not keeping tabs on individuals, mind, and wouldn't even if I knew how. (more…)

I've been teaching myself web design lately. This website that you're reading Right! This! Very! Second! is built on a template provided by the Authors Guild. It's serviceable, it works well for an author's site, and, um... well, it isn't quite what I need to (more…)

Since my books are available in electronic versions from Amazon, I assume that means those are Kindle versions. I've never even seen a Kindle in the flesh (so to speak), but I've been kind of jonesing for one. Especially when I think about (more…)

Sometime between now and never. I wrote a first draft of it, in which Matty goes off to North Africa, meets an old friend, has a fight, goes home, sees a play about himself that's interrupted by a tomato fight, goes back to Tripoli in time to get captured in the Philadelphia (or maybe (more…)

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…)