Inspired by a couple of panels I was on at Marcon: Never post anything you wouldn’t want read by your boss, spouse, child, or grandmother. Never “correct” reviews of your work. You can ignore them, or point out they exist, but don’t start an argument with a critic. Even if Read more…
The long weekend allowed me to finally catch up and watch the season finale of Lost. I thought it was impressive, not only in the elaborate head-trip they managed to pull, but in the way it provides, like the last two finales, not just a wrap-up of the prior season, but as a setup for the next. I also liked the way the ending had echoes of the last finale. Before I go on, I must warn: MEGA-EPIC SPOILERS AHEAD.
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I’m back from doing the panelist thing at Marcon. And in the picture I’m playing the author-on-display with Toby Buckell, Paul Melko, and Charles Findlay. Charlie ended up selling way more books than the rest of us combined (the bastard). Still a fun time, and it’s nice to hang out Read more…
Well, my editorial phone call was deferred until probably next week, so space opera is deferred. This is probably a good thing, gives me a chance to concentrate on Marcon and my release party for Prophets. (When is it, you ask? Well it is 4pm on Saturday in Room 501 Read more…
Going to talk about Heretics with Sheila @ DAW this evening, and go over (hopefully minor) editorial rewrites. This means I have shifted from medieval werewolves back to post-singularity space opera. . . I’m this far from writing about post-singularity werewolves. But that’s another novel.
Just caught myself up, and I am still in near awe of how meticulous Lost is with its continuity. Not just in how the writing itself doesn’t slip into the stupid contradictions that almost every TV show slips into after a few years, but how they choose to reveal stupid Read more…
If you haven’t been following along on my appearances page (and why aren’t you?) I’m going to do a reading/signing tomorrow with fellow hamsters Geoff and Mary at Mac’s Backs in Cleveland Heights. It begins at 7pm, and if you aren’t there then you just aren’t one of the cool Read more…
This weekend I wrapped up the first draft of Wolfbreed 2. We have it clocking in at about 84K which explains finishing about a week ahead of schedule. This doesn’t mean that the book’ll end up that short. Inevitably my revisions end up long. (Even Raven, where I cut 30K Read more…
What is it about “sense of wonder” that seems to set some people’s teeth on edge. We have a recent rant on io9 that pretty much gives the distillation of the argument in the title: Is “Sense Of Wonder” Just A Code For Returning To Childhood? To quote said rant: Read more…
Passed 75K on Wolfbreed 2, which means I’m very close to wrapping up the first draft of this novel. Now all I need is a new title. (Haven’t we been here before?)