Yesterday, Tor.Com did a reveal for the cover of SILVER ON THE ROAD. But I know some of you tend not to click through on things. So here. Let me SHOVE THEÂ AMAZING OH MY GOD SO BEAUTIFUL UNDER YOUR NOSE. This? Â Is never the cover I would have asked for. Â But it’s so incredibly […]
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Go forth and admire the full-size version, courtesy of the good folk at Tor.com! (and check out the series page here!)
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But really, it can all be summed up thus: The squalling of “oh, fantasy isn’t about REAL issues or proper use of metaphors” we’re seeing once again from critics and writers who should know better by now ignores the fact that ALL good fiction invokes moral and psychological themes – and emotional themes, too. And
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So, a while back, the unstoppable Jaym Gates came to me and said, kid, I want you to write me a story (if you’re imagining this as said in the voice of Arlo Guthrie channeling Officer Obie, you’d be dead to rights). It was for an anthology she was plotting, with the theme of genius
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Wrote about 1K words on a short story that I’ve made a bet with another friend that I can finish by next Sunday, even with everything else that’s going on. And then I went to the Cascade Writer’s Library Event in Renton, where I, Ken Scholes, and Heather Roulo dropped some hard truths (and funny
Today’s WiP darling: “She had grown up in proximity to the devil; power had been as present in the air she breathed as the sulphured smoke from the blacksmith’s forge.” I may kill it later. But for now, we’re in love. :-) 2000 new words and I’m finally starting to feel, nearly 25,000 words in,
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#TBT all the way to 2003, when I first saw the art that would become the cover of my first original book, STAYING DEAD. That was my favorite cover of all my work ever… until now. Now there’s maybe a new winner. Â *g*
CatofSize isn’t sure if he’s having a bad morning or is just in a Grumpy Old Man stage. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference… Â And I probably should stop referring to having to shoot the cat. New people (and some older ones) keep reading it all wrong. ;-) But hey, being up at 6am
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Novels/novellas: SILVER ON THE ROAD is copyeditor-bound. I hope to have ARCs soon, to maybe scatter among the deserving and talkative… (if you’re a blogger or otherwise loudmouthed in the industry and want one, email me!) WORK OF HUNTERS (Sylvan Investigations #3) is with the proofreader and from there into backer-edition production, huzzah! CLAWED (Gin
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My post on using American history in fantasy over at Charlie Stross’ blog seems to have evolved in comments into a “the technical aspects of how you’d write an alternate American history where the Indian tribes don’t lose” alternating with arguments over the definition of Celtic and related UKcentric socioarcheology, and the only-occasional hitting of my
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