Before They Were Giants has been released, and is officially in stock at Amazon! Woo!

08/17/10

A lot's gone on since the last time I posted--City of Strangers has come out and is getting reviewed pretty well, Paizo had incredible success at the Ennie Awards (for which I got to write our theme music!), and Before They Were Giants should be available in bookstores in the next few weeks. Yet right now the big news is Machine of Death, an anthology put together by Ryan North (Dinosaur Comics), David Malki! (Wondermark), and Matthew Bennardo. The book--which is all about a world where a machine cheaply and easily predicts how people will die--has been a long time in coming (I sold them the story four years ago), but it's finally releasing this October, and you should totally pick up a copy! My story is called "Miscarriage," and features an illustration by Rene Engstrom of Anders Loves Maria. Swoon!

05/20/10

The final cover for Before They Were Giants has been unveiled! The book itself is available for preorder, and should hit stores in July. Click the image below for details!

04/23/10

The final cover for City of Strangers has been revealed!

04/18/10

Well, it's finally happened. After an amazing four-year run, Shadow at Morning has broken up. Everyone's still on good terms, and Eric (drums) and I are already working on a new indie-rock band tentatively named By Land or By Sea - check out or latest recordings at www.myspace.com/jamessutter.

Though I never would have imagined as a child that I'd end up in a hardcore metal band someday, Shadow at Morning allowed me to fulfill my lifelong dreams of headlining Seattle's Showbox, having songs spun on nearly every major radio station in the area, and opening for rock legends 3 Inches of Blood. All things end, but those memories will last forever.

Time to throw up the horns and salute a marvelous phase of my life.

03/18/10

There's all sorts of the big news in the new year, but the most significant is that the Pathfinder Tales Novel Line has been officially announced. We'll be kicking off the line this August at Gen Con, and our signed authors so far include folks like Elaine Cunningham, Dave Gross, and Paul S. Kemp. It's going to be a huge event, and I couldn't be happier to be captaining the line. Expect more news soon, as well as some tracks off my in-progress solo album, but in the meantime, there's a ton of new products to peruse in the writing section.

12/08/09

I've got a new short story up at Apex Magazine, which you can read for free by clicking here. The piece, titled "Overclocking," was originally written as a response to Paizo's publisher, Erik Mona, who claimed that cyberpunk was dead and buried. Whether or not I won that argument is your call....

11/17/09

Lazy, lazy, lazy! Here I've been having all sorts of interesting developments, and I haven't updated the front page in three months. In my defense, there have been some big things afoot. The three biggest are:

Before They Were Giants has officially been announced.  Due to hit bookstores everywhere this July, my first personal anthology from Planet Stories takes the first published short stories from some of the greatest living SF writers and pairs them with brand new interviews and critiques from the authors themselves on what they know now that they wish they'd known then, how the stories came to be, and more. For more information, you can hit the product page at paizo.com, but the alphabetical author list is:
     Piers Anthony: "Possible to Rue"
     Greg Bear: "Destroyers"
     Ben Bova: "A Long Way Back"
     David Brin: "Just a Hint"
     Cory Doctorow: "Craphound"
     William Gibson: "Fragments of a Hologram Rose"
     Nicola Griffith: "Mirrors and Burnstone"
     Joe Haldeman: "Out of Phase"
     China Miéville: "Highway 61 Revisited"
     Larry Niven: "The Coldest Place"
     Kim Stanley Robinson: "In Pierson’s Orchestra"
     Spider Robinson: "The Guy with the Eyes"
     R. A. Salvatore: "A Sparkle for Homer"
     Charles Stross: "The Boys"
     Michael Swanwick: "Ginungagap"

I've got a new story in Apex Magazine. Specifically, the December issue -- links will be up once it goes live.

City of Strangers has been announced. My largest RPG project to date, this complete sourcebook details the city of Kaer Maga in the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting, and is due to stores in stores this June, though you can read more and preorder it here.

Please note that the covers shown for both BTWG and City of Strangers are just placeholders until the actual art is finalized.

08/18/09

Big news! On the heels of a magnificent GenCon, in which the Pathfinder RPG released to great acclaim and sales, I've just returned home to find an acceptance letter from British Fantasy Society award-winner Allen Ashley, editor of the post-apocalyptic anthology Catastrophia from PS Publishing. Turns out he liked my zombie romance story, "A Long Road to the Sea," and is buying it for his book. Victory! There's no such thing as too much post-apocalyptic fiction, so look for it on the shelves both here and abroad in winter of 2010.

04/18/09

So two weeks ago my incredibly talented friends gave me the most amazing surprise party of my life. Without my knowledge (despite seemingly everyone I know being in on it), they wrote, arranged, rehearsed, and performed a 45-minute musical with a brilliantly impersonated me as the main character, fighting the evil Senator Jon (see the music page for more explanation) with the help of my bandmates and several sexy ladies, and scored the whole thing with reinterpretations of music I've written. It was without a doubt the coolest thing I could want for my quartercentennial, and it's all up on YouTube - just click the poster above for the full playlist. (If you just want to skip around, I recommend going to "Of Loss"... Kaia, the girl playing my jilted hippie lover, has an amazing voice. Or you could go straight to the erotic shadow puppets in "The Wake.") 

02/10/09