Do you like dragons? You know you do. James Maxey who I’ve been a fan of since I discovered his book Nobody Gets the Girl has two different series with dragons. Today he’s going to tell us a little bit about Hush.
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We’ve discovered that we can watch the fireworks from our balcony. Largely because everyone in our neighborhood seems determined to start the next Great Chicago Fire. Our neighbors are setting off fireworks in the alley. This strikes me as not entirely safe. The writer in me is noting the smell of all the gunpowder in the
We have recorded 44 episodes of Writing Excuses to take us through the time that Dan is in Germany. 44 episodes in four days. That’s almost fourteen hours of content. Our tag line is “Fifteen minutes long, because you’re in a hurry, and we’re not that smart.” Right now? Not smart at all.
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After each of these, came exposition disguised as an argument. Hypothesis: “You just don’t get it, do you,” is the “As you know, Bob” of our generation. Discuss.
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For full disclosure, I blurbed this book and loved it. It feeds all of my historical fantasy jollies, as well as being an interesting detective story. What’s particularly great about D.B. Jackson, which his bio doesn’t say, is that he’s a history professor. The man knows his stuff and in this case, his stuff is
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There will come a moment in your career when you will meet your writing idol. This may happen more than once, but at least once, you will meet someone for whom it is impossible to deny the urge to be a fan. A giant squeeing fan. But you also want to be professional. Here are
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If you’ve ever been curious about what Jane might say in an interview, Bewitched Bookworms interviewed Jane, on their website. You can find out how old she was when she first started learning glamour and some hints about her plans for the future.
My husband just shared this essay at the New York Times, The ‘Busy’ Trap, and I have to admit it hits home. In fact, one of the things that I had already told him, with my departure from SFWA, is that I’m not allowed to volunteer for anything for at least a year. If you live in
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I’m participating in this year’s Clarion Write-a-Thon. It’s a fund-raiser for one of the most intense writing workshops for SF and Fantasy writers. And you can sponsor me. What is a write-a-thon, anyway? It’s just like a walk-a-thon. But instead of walking, we’re writing, and instead of making pledges per mile, we’re making pledges per word,
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It’s been a great run, but I’m sitting here wondering what I should do after four years on the board. What should I do since tomorrow there are so many things that will no longer be my problem. Scalzi is out of town. I don’t have to turn the keys over to Rachel until tomorrow,
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Hey author friends, if you have a book on Audible.com, will you self-pimp it here? We are recording Writing Excuses and this will help us sort through books to mention as book of the week. NOTE: We’re sponsored by Audible.com so it has to be available on Audible. If it’s coming out in the next
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I just sent my outline for Valour and Vanity off to my editor. Since a lot of you asked questions about outlines in the Writing Excuses thread yesterday, I wanted to take a moment to talk about the principles behind outlines. These aren’t rules, but sort of ideas for how to decide when and if you
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You might recall my conversation with my brother about Redshirts. He recently sent me this photo and the note, “Now that I’ve finished the incredibly entertaining Redshirts, of course, I’m up for reading your book.” To be fair, I sent him the shirt with the note, “NOW will you read my book?” I guess the answer
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I was asked to write an essay about Ender’s Game for an upcoming collection from Smart Pop Books, which was wicked fun. In addition to the essays, they are also asking for questions from readers. From you. Here are the details. As you may already know, we’re publishing a collection of essays on Ender’s Game in February 2013,
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I am spending almost as much time on the road these days as I did when I was touring full time with puppet theater. It’s wacky. This time, I’m in town to record episodes of Writing Excuses. We’re going to spend Four DAYS recording so that we can get a lot of episodes in the
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