UPDATE: (3/31/2011) Fixed a typo someone pointed out on Reddit. I’ve written enough about authors that have shown very public displays of ill judgment that it seemed to be almost mandatory that I talk about Mr. Patrick Roscoe (his name is not a link because you absolutely must hear the Read more…
It is the nature of prose that it is linear. There’s a beginning, a middle and a end. That has been a fact of life for storytellers since the beginning of time, and the rules of drama have been around since the ancient Greeks, and are still taught in scriptwriting Read more…
Just to let fans of audio books know that I have recently signed contracts to have the Apotheosis Trilogy be released on Audible.com. I spent Thursday evening talking to the voice-over artist going over pronunciations. I’m just glad most of my proper nouns have some basis in actual language somewhere. Read more…
Well, you probably know by now I didn’t win the PKD award, but I still had a fun time at Norwescon, and I thought I’d post a few pictures: Me and my book: Daryl Gregory, Ian McDonald, Daryl Gregory #2 (inside joke), David G. Hartwell: Me and Cory Doctorow:
Friday (obscenely early) I fly off to the west cost to Norwescon to find out if Prophets won the Phillip K. Dick Award. The announcement will happen during the awards ceremony at 7pm Pacific. You can see the stiff competition I’m up against here. Wish me luck. Regardless of how Read more…
I just got author copies of the audio version of Wolfbreed. While I can’t live without mp3s now, and the first thing I did with this was rip it into iTunes, I must say there is something way cool about having a physical object to point to and say, “That’s Read more…
This Saturday March 20th between 1 and 3 PM I will be joined by fellow authors Mary Ellis, Linda Robertson and Casey Daniels at the Borders Bookstore at 335 Howe Avenue in Cuyahoga Falls, across from Chapel Hill Mall. We’ll be talking about writing, signing books and all that wonderful Read more…
The blog’s been falling by the wayside a little while I work on the climax of the Apotheosis Trilogy. It’s a little hard to shift gears for me after spending thousands of words destroying the universe I’ve been building for the past fifteen years. To say all hell’s breaking loose Read more…
Another quick tip while I’m buried in the middle of this novel: Tropes and clichés are a great tool with which to surprise your reader. Wait, you might say, how can you possibly surprise the reader with a cliché? Well what exactly is a cliché? It is a situation that’s Read more…
Plot’s one of my strong points as a writer. That’s brought home to me when I see reviews saying that the Apotheosis Trilogy is “tightly plotted.” To my POV that is amusing because it (and its predecessor, Hostile Takeover) are, for me at least, vast sprawling shaggy dog stories that Read more…