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The Silver Ship and Sea a Best Adult Book for Youth

January 19th 2008 at 9:42 am

Booklist puts out an Editor’s Choice list every year, and I was really surprised and pleased to see THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA listed as one of their “Best Adult Books for Youg Adults” list. This was particularly pleasing since it’s a national, broad list, and it was nice to see a science fiction [...]

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Misc Book News

November 26th 2007 at 6:05 am

Apparently SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA was Thanksgiving reading for a few people – I got some compliments on it via email this weekend. That always makes me feel good – a writerly dream is that some stranger will like your work. And then if they do, it’s surprising. The copyedits for READING THE WIND [...]

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Progress on the Fremont’s Children Series

October 31st 2007 at 7:32 pm

Many bits of news on this series. I just received the copyedits for READING THE WIND, the second book. It appears to be scheduled to come out in July. I’ll be reading every page of a 400 page manuscript out loud (after my lessons with MAYAN DECEMBER where I ended up having to do that [...]

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Paperback of Silver Ship and the Sea Pub Date

September 25th 2007 at 6:40 am

Based on my Google alerts note this morning, Amazon in Canada is advertising the paperback version The Silver Ship and the Sea for July, 2008. Now, the US version of Amazon doesn’t show it at all. The book has been widely avaiolable in Canada, at least according to some of my friends who’ve gone to [...]

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The Page 99 Test

July 12th 2007 at 9:21 pm

The Page 99 test suggests that if you open a book there and read, you get a good sense for the quality of the whole book. I got asked to do a blog entry for The Page 99 Test about The Silver Ship and the Sea. It was actually kind of fun to look and [...]

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That post-book thing….

June 16th 2007 at 5:07 pm

Put the second draft of MAYAN DECEMBER in the mail yesterday. The first draft wrote itself, but the second one took a while. I’ve been out and about doing readings for THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA. Well, when you read your prose out loud, it sounds different than it does than when you read [...]

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Interview Posted

May 3rd 2007 at 5:38 am

Blogger Naina from India both recommended The Silver Ship and the Sea, and also did an email interview with me which is posted on the web. I really love this small world, and I love the idea that someone from India might like my work and want to talk to me about it, and that [...]

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Reading April 25th in Kirkland

April 17th 2007 at 11:35 am

At Park Place Books. This is a local independent bookstore that was flooded out during the winter storms this year and is struggling to recover. The staff is great and they have both books and gifts available. There is also a good sushi restaurant and a good wine bar nearby, and free parking. Hope to [...]

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Coming up: A Marathon Weekend

April 4th 2007 at 6:10 am

Tonight: signing for SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA at University Bookstore at 7:00 PM if I get there across the 520 that fast Tomorrow night: for some reason I must have forgotten to check “no programming” for Thursday night since I got myself set up to drive to Seatac for a one hour panel on [...]

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Silver Ship and the Sea in Seattle Times

March 30th 2007 at 7:44 am

That’s almost a tongue twister! Not sure I’d say it three times (no pun intended). Anyway, click here for the very complimentary review, which is by Nisi Shawl.

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Westward Weird is now available — my first published ghost story

One of my favorite shorts, “My Grandfather’s River,” has been included in this beautiful new anthology named RIVER, edited by Alma Alexander and now available via Dark Quest Books.

December special.

Mayan December is now available for only .99 cents for Kindle and Nook.

Great price.  Limited time.

I have a new story in “Under the Vale,” a fabulous collection of stories set in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar.

I have a new story in “Under the Vale,” a fabulous collection of stories set in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar.

Year’s Best SF 28 Out!

My story, “My Father’s Singularity” is among many great stories in this anthology.  Available widely.

Recent interviews on the web

I had two really fun interviews come out recently.  They can be found at:

Heidi Ruby Miller’s Pick Six

MilSciFi interview relating to my story, “Cracking the Sky” in the No Man’s Land anthology

In an Iron Cage now available at Amazon

This is a fun Steampunk anthology from Dark Quest Books.  My story is set in the Yucatan Peninsula, between the two time-lines of Mayan December.  Drop by and pick one up!  This is the ebook version, a print version will be out soon as well.

“Cracking the Sky” will be out in May in the anthology “No Man’s Land.”

This story was inspired by a trip to the Army’s TRADOC Mad Scientist conference last year.  No Man’s Land is a military science fiction anthology written entirely by women.  NEWS:  It can now be pre-ordered at Amazon.com.

Mayan December now available at Amazon

What do an ancient shaman, a modern-day scientist, a computer nerd in dreadlocks, and an eleven-year-old girl have in common? Join these adventurers as they traverse the Yucatan peninsula – and time itself – in a search for the meaning of life.  Oh, and for jaguars.
Mayan December is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com.

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