Everyone who’s been paying attention and has mere than a passing affection for freedom of speech knows that Internet culture is getting out of hand. Especially at times, it seems, in the little corner of the net inhabited by Science Fiction fans. (Perennial case being YA Twitter, of which I’ve Read more…
Now that Marked has come out, I’ve been doing some e-mail interviews with blogs out there on the Interwebs. Today one of my interviews has appeared on Paul Semel’s blog. I get to talk about Marked, zombies, airships, alternate timelines, where it came from, and who I’d cast in the Read more…
So a few days ago Slate published an article in what has become a distressingly common subgenre we could call “People are writing SF wrong! Here’s what we must do to fix it!” It seems to have been inspired by an earlier article in Vox about “Hopepunk,” a nascent literary movement whose Read more…
Today is the release date for my genre mash-up novel Marked. (You can now get it on Amazon.) Follow Detective Dana Rohan as she slips into alternate pasts and futures and faces the Shadows living in the Chaos. Publisher’s Weekly called it “… an entertaining, occasionally raucous romp.” And SFRevu Read more…
On January 15th, my new novel Marked will officially hit the shelves. DAW’s given it a nice trade paperback treatment, with a kick-ass cover by Chris Gibbs. And yes, the title of this post is not clickbait. In this book you will find steampunk (Napoleonic airships anyone?), zombies (of a Read more…
Well, I got a chance to see the first two episodes of the new Star Trek and here are my thoughts: If you obsess about canon, this series will trigger you hard. There is no way you can sensibly integrate this into the same universe as TOS without serious mental Read more…
So far my Facebook group, Swann’s Lounge, seems to be a success. But it comes at a price. On one of the more popular threads people are listing “obscure” SF/F titles. There’s a lot of good stuff in there. But apparently it’s been long enough for Jack L. Chalker’s Well Read more…
I just want to let people know about my continued effort to integrate myself into the social media landscape (or other buzzwords to that effect) I have launched myself a Facebook group called Swann’s Lounge. So, for those of you on Facebook, you can join a bunch of like-minded folks Read more…
I’m going to be at the Cleveland Concoction convention this coming weekend from March 10th through the 12th. If you’re in the area, directions are here. You can find the overall schedule here, as for what I’m doing: Fri. 11pm – Fantasy and Rule 34 Sat. 12pm – Vampires, Werewolves, and Gods—Rewriting Read more…
If you were to pick out who is the most “problematic” character in the SF/Fantasy canon, H.P.Lovecraft has got to be near the top of the list. He is probably one of the most influential voices in the genre, not just touching authors as diverse as Stephen King and Charles Read more…