Archive for the 'About Writing' Category
Release Day for Wings of Creation!
Pardon the happy little post in advance. It’s a gray day here is Seattle – with a touch of pink sunrise still in the window – but I’m hoping for a good one. A lot of writing is work. By the time a book comes out, I’m two books or more past it, and living [...]
How is publishing like the tech industry?
Yesterday, I listened to the Sofanauts podcast #30 while I was pulling out spent daises and mushed iris leaves and planting crocus and narcissus. The conversation is an hour and half long argument where everybody is right. The moderator was Tony C. Smith of Starship Sofa, guests lined up as Jeff Vandermeer and Jeremy Tolbert [...]
Authors and Covers
We have no say. Here is a copy of the cover for an anthology I have a story in. It’s coming out on the 6th – which is next Tuesday. It’s either so bad that it’s good or it’s really, really bad. I can see it on shelves right before Halloween, though. It’s being considered [...]
Two things that make SF stories well-loved….
SF Signal runs a mind meld periodically where they gather a bunch of us sf writers and ask us a question (which I usually find on Twitter. This week, they included me a two-part post about favorite short stories. I thought I’d talk about two of them a little bit more here. One is the [...]
Getting ready for a week away
I get to go be a writer for a week. When you’re balancing hats like I am (CIO/writer/futurist), getting a bit of a break to be any one of them alone for a week is a fine and rare treat. I will be on the coast in Lincoln City, Oregon, with the dog, a pile [...]
The Images of Creativity
This is a very bizarre little image that makes me want to burst out in fantasy story. The border collie, Sasha, and the household child, Katie, are framed in the window while I’m outside taking a picture, the flash reflecting back like a star. It looks like there is greenery inside and outside the window, [...]
In which I become a publisher
People ask me regularly if I have books available on the Kindle. It’s possible that happens more to me than to other authors, since I live and work in Amazon’s home town and my friends are tech geeks. I’m pretty sure that my novels will find their way there eventually through my publisher, Tor Books, [...]
Someone reading my work to me
At this stage of my writing career, I’ve gone through a number of the fabulous firsts. I’ve sold my first story, and my first novel, had my first awful review and my first stellar one. I’ve won my first award, and I’ve taught writing for the first time. These are things I’ll remember. Well, today [...]
2Xcreative: Maid Born of Crone
Kyle Cassidy started it. Actually, for me, the trail started with a picture of Neil Gaiman’s dog. I can’t actually find the post that started it all, but it’s probably back there in the history on Neil’s blog. He has a very pretty dog. Anyway, the picture of Neil (also pretty) with the pretty dog [...]
Locus Awards and Science Fiction Hall of Fame Report
Kudos to the Locus team for organizing an excellent event. I had a great time, and enjoyed this year’s awards even more than last year’s. A couple of highlights: Most of the winners were there. So were a lot of the nominees. That was very nice. It’s a lot more fun to see someone win [...]
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