I just had an email from David Hartwell, requesting permission to reprint “The Consciousness Problem” in The Years Best Science Fiction #15, to be published in the spring as a mass market paperback original by Harper Eos. Naturally, I said yes. And then jumped up and down in the hotel room for a bit wishing […]
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Remember how excited I was when Shades of Milk and Honey became available for pre-order on Amazon.com? It no longer is. Why can’t you pre-order my book on Amazon.com? Because on Friday, amazon.com stopped carrying all the Macmillan books. My publisher, Tor is an imprint of Macmillan. You can still buy some through third parties
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Hey! My latest column is up at AMC and I take a look at the “elderly” in fantasy film. My sense of what it means to be elderly is wildly skewed since my grandmother will be 105 next week, is sharp as a tack and still lives on her own. Sadly, fantasy has a narrower
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One of the reasons I was cast to do the novel I’m reading right now is because I grew up in North Carolina. Of course, the story is set in South Carolina so I have the wrong accent. Yes. Yes, there is more than one Southern accent. To complicate matters, my parents are from East
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I’ll be in Grand Rapids Haven until February 6th, recording more audio books for Brilliance Audio. I’m narrating Home in Carolina (Sweet Magnolias) by Sherryl Woods and Rosemary and Rue: An October Daye Novel by Seanan McGuire. Edited to add: Um. I’m actually in Grand Haven. I flew into Grand Rapids.
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I meant to post this a week ago, but it remains funny so nothing is lost. If you do not already follow Dr. Eldritch, you really should. However, this particular issue might be my favorite. For obvious reasons. Here’s the start of this storyline, but you should read the whole thing. I know exactly how
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I’ve been sitting on this for a bit, but I’ll be joining the team at Weird Tales as their art director. Clearly, this is very exciting. I’ve long been an admirer of the work that Stephen Segal has done to revitalize the magazine and look forward to continuing his work. Of course the rest of
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Today, I turned in my platform to run for the vice president of SFWA. I’m running with a slate of other candidates that include: John Scalzi for President Bob Howe for Secretary Amy Sterling Casil for Treasurer Sean Williams for Overseas Representative Here is the letter I posted in the 2010 Election area on the
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I started the day by biking down to Voodoo donuts to meet Cat and Mr. Rambo for, well, donuts. Powered by sugar, I came home to spend more time with our stove. Which means it’s time for before and after pictures of stove! We’ll not the whole stove, but just the under the hood part.
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This week Rob and I bought a vintage O’Keefe-Merritt stove to replace the one in our apartment. After years of cooking on the Wedgewood at our house, I’ve been thoroughly spoiled. So we got permission to change stoves and have been idly scanning Craigslist looking for a new one. Behold! Four burners, a griddle, oven,
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I have a 5600 word fantasy story that I’d love to have some readers for. If you have time to give a read and offer feedback, please drop me a line and ask for the password. The teaser: A Piece of Valiant Dust Harloyd walked through Loveman’s department store, swinging his brass thurible from its
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I was working on a project today that required me to say how many short stories I’ve sold. The answer is 30. I’m sort of staggered. That’s a lot of stories. Meanwhile, I realized that I badly needed to update my bibliography, which has been ignored since my bilbiofly plugin broke. I kept hoping that
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Just a reminder, or a head’s up for those who don’t know, the official Campbell site is displaying all the eligible authors that they know about. The key here is the phrase “that they know about.” If your first pro-sale has appeared in print in 2008 or 2009, make sure you contact them to get
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My dad called me today to tell me that he had spent some time with my grandmother and had taken Scenting the Dark with him. We talked about the three stories he read today and it was interesting because he read drafts of the first and third but I guess never got to see the
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