Archive for the 'Silver Ship and the Sea' Category
In which an author is given a lovely gift
I was lucky enough to be invited to talk at the Cavalcade of Authors a few weeks ago in Pasco, Washington. They just emailed me a survey and went, “Oh, by the way – we did some book trailers for you. Do you want to see them?” Well, yeah. Look! A book trailer for Silver [...]
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 [...]
New winner, and the book giveaway continues….
I’m pleased to announce that Samuel Montgomery-Blinn is the latest winner in the book giveaway. He chose The Silver Ship and the Sea. There are two more drawings left – one this Friday and one on the 10th which is the release date for the hardcover of Wings of Creation. The release date drawing will [...]
Various useful webbishry
First, Seattle Geekly does a great podcast. As I’m sure you can guess, they talk about all things Seattle that would interest the slightly more – well, geekly (gaming, conventions, science fiction and fantasy, anime, steampunk, other local events). I listen in when I get time. Even better, I visited them last week and we [...]
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 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, [...]
Interview posted at MILSCIFI.COM
I didn’t set out for these books to be about war, at least not when I wrote The Silver Ship and the Sea. Current events, however, have a way of coloring artistic work, even science fiction that’s being written about a far future. The Iraq War and The Silver Ship and the Sea started at [...]
A Review of The Silver Ship and the Sea
I usually don’t post reviews here, good or bad, but this review at Zeno’s Library tickled me because I truly do think science fiction is partly about making people think. At least that’s part of why I both read and write sf…
Me on Video, then in Portland
Now that I’m back from the Rainforest Writers retreat, I have two more “shows” in the next two days: Tomorrow I’ll be doing a video with Glen Hiemstra and a few other folks, which will how up on my website soon. Think of it as futurist speaking marketing, I guess. People keep saying they don’t [...]
The Silver Ship and the Sea wins the Endeavor Award
This weekend at Orycon, I was given the Endeavor Award for The Silver Ship and the Sea. I’ve been thinking about how to blog about it in a more meaningful way than just posting the press release or talking about how excited I am that the book was chosen when all of the other writers [...]
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