I’m excited to go to New York in two weeks to attend Comic Con. Here is a schedule of where you can find me. On Friday, Oct 10th, I will be signing books at the 47North booth at 6pm. I would love to meet any of you who can drop

I’m so excited to share this news that I wanted to do it in person (well, via Youtube anyway!) instead of a blog posting. You can watch it here: Jeff’s big announcement Coming in 2016: the Covenant of Muirwood Trilogy Make sure you subscribe to my mailing list because there

I normally plug books that I read via my Goodreads account, but I thought this one was special and wanted to give it a little more exposure. I recently stumbled on John D Brown’s book Servant and was impressed with the story, the magic system, and especially the tension. Even better, it

From time to time, I get requests for writing advice. I’m not very big on offering writing advice because I truly believe there isn’t one way to do this business and what works for me won’t necessarily work for someone else. Instead, I’m a believer that practicing writing is the

I turned in the manuscript of Poisonwell yesterday to 47North. What comes next is rounds of editing, collaborating on cover art, formatting the final book, recording the audio version, all preceding the launch day of Feb 3, 2015. I can’t wait to share the final adventure with you. Feedback from

I read a great essay many years ago by a famous US Air Force pilot named John Boyd. He had a very interesting life and there’s a great book about him called Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War. Reading that book led me to pursue some

My wife loves to watch Morning Joe and told me about a recent interview that the author James Patterson gave. He’s donating $1 million dollars to help independent bookstores survive. http://www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/watch/how-to-preserve-the-cherished-local-bookstore-184294467957 I have no problem with how he spends his own money, but there was a lot of interesting observations

I think most authors have been inspired by the work of someone else. I’ve mentioned many times that Terry Brooks was the one who kickstarted my imagination and a desire to write fantasy novels. But there is someone else whose influence on my mind during those earlier years also deserves