Archive for the 'Publications' Category
Writing in a Comfortable Place
In general, writing is pushing an edge for me – a new technology, a new type of character, an attempt at a new voice. But sometimes it’s more like a hot cocoa by the fire. I spent years grabbing the newest Mercedes Lackey books from the shelf as soon as they came out. When I [...]
Shiny New Wings of Creation Hardbacks
A box of books arrived for me last night. I threw it in the back of my car, thinking it held copies of Reading the Wind (which I am also expecting, but which I’ve seen), and it turned out to be the Wings of Creation hardbacks. The book design is very beautiful; the cover and the [...]
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 [...]
Reading the Wind available in paperback
I’m pleased to announce that Reading the Wind is out in paperback. In honor of its release, I posted a new story on the Academy of New World Historians website. The new story happens offstage to the action in the book, and is the first part of the overall story that has been narrated by [...]
The Academy of New World Historians is Born
Writers have the best job in the world. We make stuff up. We daydream and what we daydream becomes real – as a book or a story or a poem. People read our daydreams, our musings, the things that grow out of our subconscious. I really did it this time. It all started with the [...]
In which the SF Signal Mind Meld includes me on Smart SF Movies
And I get to learn a lot from the things others have to offer. I have a career in tech, an avocation as a writer, a calling as a futurist, and a family. So I had to pull some smart sf out of my memory banks from a time in my life when I had [...]
Into a new breach: My work on an iphone app
Steampunk Tales #2 is out, and contains a story by me, and a lot of stories by other writers, too. For $1.99, it’s a good deal. As far as I know, “Speaker for the Mayans” is the first story of mine that’s been available in the iphone apps store. Better yet, it’s set in one [...]
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 [...]
Announcing a New Column at Futurismic
I’m excited to announce that I’ll be doing a new column at Futurismic. The introduction to the column can be found here. I’m really pleased to be associated with the site – it’s one of the better science and science fiction sites out there right now. Futurismic comes in three pieces: blog, columns, and stories. [...]
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