I’m currently working on Messiah, which is not only the last volume of the Apotheosis Trilogy, it is also quite possibly going to be the capstone on my entire Moreau/Hostile Takeover universe. I won’t say it will be the last book in that universe (never say never) but it is Read more…
Someone has again scratched a pet peeve of mine, that old pseudo-literary bugbear “relevance.” As in, SF is losing it, and it better get some quick or else be declared “irrelevant.” This is a bit of an oversimplification of the essay by Jetse de Vries, Should SF Die? But it Read more…
My RSS reader starts lighting up from my Google feed. She gives me a positive review in her own unique style. Here. Here. And here. I suspect there’s more out there somewhere.
I’m late to this party, but when I found it via Making Light I couldn’t resist blogging about it:
Candace Sams, author of Electra Galaxy’s Mr. Interstellar Feller (mass-market paperback, Dorchester/Love Spell), has exploded all over a comment thread on Amazon. She’s posting as Niteflyr One, but the comment thread has her ID’d as the author as of comment #8.
Head’s up, newbie writers, it is a bad idea to comment on reviews of your work. It’s a really bad idea to start a flame war over your work. The following is on page #2 of 26(!) pages of comments:
NOTE TO READERS: authors leave themselves open for attack by having their work posted for sale…they hope that if there’s anything engaging about the books, someone might say so. They hope that if others don’t like the books, they will find a more tactful, professional and mature way to express themselves. They (the authors) hope that so-called reviewers (often shameful people who abuse the power Amazon provides) will not directly try to keep the author from making a living.
That is only a short little segment of a tirade where our author decides to rant and insult her audience. Always a smooth move. You know, if you are this insecure and thin skinned, maybe you should find another line of work. But, as I said, page #2. Hasn’t slowed down a bit by #4:
Because, that’s the way the business works in some New York venues. Only the highest paid authors won’t have their manuscripts ripped apart by some editors. As to my bad author behavior…I’m getting a lot of email telling me to stand my ground…from people who ARE buying my books.
Lady, an editor “ripping apart” your manuscript is a sign you have a sucktastic editor. And, if your fans told you to jump off a bridge. . . (more…)
I just recently finished the last rewrites on Wolf’s Cross, and it got me to thinking about Character in fiction. This is mostly because what my editor wanted, for the most part, happened to be character-related. Seems I understood everyone, and why they were doing things, but a few places Read more…
Michael Wolf decided to make a complete asshat of himself. I’ll let you ponder the following thesis: HarperCollins does not really believe Sarah Palin has written a valuable book—or even that it is really a book, not in the way that HarperCollins has historically understood books, or in the way Read more…
Of course the big news is I finished the editorial rewrite of Wolf’s Cross which means that it is officially finished. (Except for reviewing the copy-edits, any last-minute editorial decisions, and going over the page proofs. . . other than that, it’s done, really.) But, in addition to that, look Read more…
I was at the Buckeye Book Fair: Here I am signing books: Here’s fellow Ohio SF author Paul Melko: Here’s paranormal mystery author Casey Daniels: Here’s a sense of how busy the whole thing was:
I’ll be doing a signing on Saturday, November 14th, at 7pm at Mac’s Backs in Cleveland Hts. This will be a joint signing along with fellow author Casey Daniels. Here’s a link with more details. Stop out and say “hi”!
Overwhelmed with work and such so blogging will be intermittent for November while I scramble to get stuff done. I may blog a bit before Thanksgiving, if time permits, but no promises.