What would you give to see how I wrote two of my novels? Of Noble Family and Valour and Vanity. I’m offering the Scrivener files to both books to all subscribers who sign up during Uncanny Magazine’s kickstarter. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Scrivener, it’s a writing software specifically created for novelists. So basically, for […]
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I get a fair number of trolls in my twitter feed. These are different from people that simply have a different opinion than I do. The people that are just trolls are interested in nothing more than scoring points. It’s not always obvious which is which at first, so I try to engage them in
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Mel Odom is joining us today with his novel Guerilla. Here’s the publisher’s description: He’s behind enemy lines. But those lines are shifting beneath his feet. In the jungles of Makaum, the Terran military is locked in a critical standoff over the planet’s resources with the hostile Phrenorians, even as both species maintain uneasy relations with the
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After three and a half months in the hospital, Nora is finally home. For those of you arriving late, my dear friend Nora, and her husband Bob, were in a horrific car accident. They barely survived. Bob was able to go home a couple of weeks ago, but Nora’s injuries were more severe. She is, in
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Fran Wilde is joining us today with her novel Updraft. Here’s the publisher’s description: In a city of living bone rising high above the clouds, where danger hides in the wind and the ground is lost to legend, a young woman must expose a dangerous secret to save everyone she loves. Welcome to a world of wind
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I might be a tiny bit excited by this.
Nathan Fillion and Miss Piggy! Not one but THREE VIDEOS Read More »
Michi Trota is joining us today to talk about Uncanny Magazine Year Two: The Return of the Space Unicorn Kickstarter. Here’s the Kickstarter description: Last year, three-time Hugo Award winner Lynne M. Thomas & three-time Hugo Award finalist Michael Damian Thomas ran the Uncanny Magazine Year One Kickstarter. We promised to bring you stunning cover art,
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Stina Leicht is joining us today with her novel Cold Iron. Here’s the publisher’s description: Fraternal twins Nels and Suvi move beyond their royal heritage and into military and magical dominion in this flintlock epic fantasy debut from a two-time Campbell Award finalist. Prince Nels is the scholarly runt of the ancient Kainen royal family of
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I’ve seen conversations about how the Hugos are “just a rocketship” and that people shouldn’t be so invested in getting an award. And while that might be true on an individual basis, the Hugo awards themselves are a reflection of our society. I’m not just talking about science-fiction and fantasy fandom, but our larger society. Now, since the Hugos are
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David Nabhan is joining us today with his novel The Pilots of Borealis. Here’s the publisher’s description: Top Gun heads to outer space in this throwback to the classic science fiction of Asimov, Clarke, and Heinlein. Strapped in to artificial wings spanning twenty-five feet across, your arms push a tenth of your body weight with each
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Aliette de Bodard is joining us today with her novel The House of Shattered Wings. Here’s the publisher’s description: In the late twentieth century, the streets of Paris are lined with haunted ruins, the aftermath of a Great War between arcane powers. The Grand Magasins have been reduced to piles of debris, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell,
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Stephen Moore is joining us today with his novel Graynelore. Here’s the publisher’s description: Rodrig Wishard is a killer, a thief and a liar. He’s a fighting man who prefers to solve his problems with his sword. In a world without government or law, where a man’s only loyalty is to his family and faerie tales
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Tom Doyle is joining us today with his novel The Left-Hand Way. Here’s the publisher’s description: Poe’s Red Death returns, more powerful than ever. Can anyone stop him before he summons an apocalyptic nightmare even worse than himself? In The Left-Hand Way, the second book of Tom Doyle’s contemporary fantasy series, the American craftsmen are scattered
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This is a good writing exercise, so I’m going to recommend it to you. Heartily. Buy a magazine that you wouldn’t normally buy. Not something that you’ll hate but something that represents a different worldview from your own. Like Chickens, or OFFGRID, or Girls and Corpses. Read it cover to cover, including all the ads, the letters
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Ellen Datlow is joining us today with her book The Best Horror of the Year Volume Seven. Here’s the publisher’s description: A sin-eater plies the tools of her dangerous trade; a jealous husband takes his rival on a hunting trip; a student torments one of his teachers; a cheap grafter is selling artifacts form hell; something is
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