Archive for the 'About Writing' Category
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 [...]
Wings of Creation Cover Squeal!
It’s PERFECT.
In Which Lynne Jamneck from New Zealand Asks Me Questions
Thanks to Lynn Jamneck (an sf writer and editor herself) for posting an interview with me over at Suite 101. She’s also going to be doing more in the same format, so you might want to drop by and see the others as she gets them posted. I’m looking forwrad to what the others have [...]
Writers: Worth 38 Minutes of Your Time
TOC ‘09 — “Where Do You Go with 40,000 Readers? A Study in Online Community Building” — Ron Hogan (Beatrice.com), John Scalzi (Scalzi Consulting), Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Tor Books), Tobias Buckell — I found it on Toby’s site, although I suspect it is also elsewhere. A lovely video by some of our very best on [...]
Weekend Report: Norwescon, #Amazonfail, and Stories
I spent the weekend at Norwescon. It was a lovely con. I also, finally and slowly (hit me on the head as a slow learner) understood why there have been so many alternate history sf stories set in the 1800′s in my magazines of late. Having decided to look up and look around, I think [...]
New Guest Blog Post Up – Last in the Series
So if you are the kind of reader who waits for all the books to come out before reading the series, well, here you go. Check out the last of my four-post series on writing over at Shaun Farrell’s Adventures In Sci Fi Publishing. This one talks about how to sell your work, and what [...]
A Story of Engagement
I usually wake up with fiction stories in my head. I’ve kept writing fiction in the last month, but the stories in my head lately have mostly been blogs. Here’s the futurist take on it: Earth has become a computer connected world. I’m a science fiction writer – so a bigger percentage of my readers [...]
How do I revise?
The kind and very busy Shaun Farrel has once more allowed me to post up a guest blog entry at his site, adventuresinscifipublishing….this is the thuird entry of four…I already gave away one book – I will give away another to someone who comments on this post, or the last post next week.
In which I am included in a list
Of women science authors by Mike Brotherton. That’s lovely, since I noticed today that I’m not even in the list of science fiction authors on Wikipedia. But then, it has a lower reputation for accuracy than Mike does. So drop by and help him figure out who he has left off.
New Guest Blog Post at Adventures in SciFi Publishing
How do you do first drafts? Shaun Farrel over at Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing has posted the second installment in my short guest blog series. In this one, I talk about my process for spitting out first drafts and ask for comments on how other writers work at this stage. Also, if you drop [...]
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