There are a lot of books out there about How To Write (hell, even I have one, although Practical Meerkat is less about writing than it is surviving the writing life). But here’s the thing….. The thing about writing advice is that it’s not only NOT one-size-fits-all, but we (hopefully) grow out of advice that […]
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Excuse me while I hit some of the review highlights for SILVER ON THE ROAD…. “In this delightful start to The Devil’s West series… Gilman skillfully plays with western folklore and history, infusing them with ambiguity and subtle strangeness to deliver a memorable adventure out on the untamed frontier. Refreshingly, her vision of the American
Bull Spec sez: [SILVER ON THE ROAD is] a Weird West story with a teenage girl employed by the devil as the main character? The concept was so intriguing that Your Humble Reviewers had to read it. And so they did. And they liked what they read! The scenery descriptions are wonderful and the details of
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Juliet E. McKenna’s new book, SOUTHERN FIRE is out this week, and I asked her if she’d like to talk about the “making of” this new world…. Set in the Archipelago, the first book in THE ALDABRESHIN COMPASS tells the story of Daish Kheda, ruler of a peaceful southern domain. From the outer islands comes
Guest Blog: Juliet E. McKenna, on myth-making where there are no myths. Read More »
Got my first 2-star review on Amazon for SILVER ON THE ROAD! Mostly, it seems, for using “they” as a gender-neutral pronoun. “The author created engaging characters and a story that kept my interest. But… the worst, and most frequent, glitch was the use of “they” as a gender-neutral singular pronoun. “They” is always plural
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okay guys, today’s the day to do it. My Reddit/f AMA is now officially (unless I screwed up the opening steps) LIVE. Go on, do your best. Rock the forum so hard they think AC/DC’s in town.
After the whirlwind of San Diego and San Francisco, where it was Too Warm but I got to see all sorts of friends new and old, and sign a lot of books, there was the whirlwind of New Hampshire and Another Anime Convention. Which was awesome in all sorts of ways I didn’t expect, and
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In which I talk about realizing the source of WHY I wrote SILVER ON THE ROAD, and how we are touched by the books of the past… “No book comes out of nowhere. In fact, no book comes out of only one direction. There’s the trigger, the push that takes a story from faint germ
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The gig at Mysterious Galaxy was great fun, and getting to know my co-conspirator Cat Winters was also fun. We left the place standing, if listing slightly, and with a few signed copies for anyone who couldn’t make the reading. But the day was kind of thrown akilter (in a good way) by the news
Silver on the Road: So yeah, San Diego (and NPR) happened… Read More »
I’m off to the airport, heading down to California (San Diego and San Francisco) and I hope to see some of y’all there (at Mysterious Galaxy and SF-in-SF @ Borderlands Books, respectively). For those hanging out online… TODAY: The “Big Idea” behind SILVER ON THE ROAD, admitting where (and why) SILVER almost didn’t get written…. In
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