http://www.brenda-cooper.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 13 Jul 2008 05:38:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is the second installment in a set of blog posts about my current science fiction series.  The first book, THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA, is now available in paperback.  The sequel, READING THE WIND, will be out on July 22nd.  Each post explores one way the books address ... http://www.brenda-cooper.com/2008/07/12/human-selection/ I'm the star of an interview for ItBusinessEdge.  While I've been interviewed for a lot of technology articles, and periodically for our local paper, and even been in an interactive futurist blog session for the Washington Post, I've never seen a taped interview dumped so literally onto a page.  It reads like I talk ... http://www.brenda-cooper.com/2008/07/11/where-im-interviewed-for-itbusinessedge/ I'm a fan and supporter of the Clarion West writer's workshop, and have been attending the reading series when I can.  I made it to Cory Doctorow's reading, and he was, of course, fabulous and interesting.  He read part of a story that will be coming out as free fiction ... http://www.brenda-cooper.com/2008/07/08/cory-doctorow-reads-a-juggler-talks-and-i-sign/ This is the first installment in a series of blog posts about my current science fiction series.  The first book, THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA, is now available in paperback.  The sequel, READING THE WIND, will be out on July 22nd.  Each post in the series explores one way ... http://www.brenda-cooper.com/2008/07/06/a-wild-world/ I'm starting a series of blog posts related to THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA, which comes out in paperback July 1st, and FREMONT'S CHILDREN which has it's hardcover release July 22nd. Sometimes science fiction is just a good story.   And all of the best science fiction is a good story, ... http://www.brenda-cooper.com/2008/06/29/science-social-questions-and-science-fiction/ I'm still on setting.  Burke is one of my favorite authors for setting, and I've read many of his books that deal with the deep south.  He also lives in, and writes about, Montana.  In the Moon of Red Ponies is one of the Montana books.  It has the same ... http://www.brenda-cooper.com/2008/06/28/reading-recommendation-in-the-moon-of-red-ponies-by-james-lee-burke/ I've never understood why most lectures aren't better attended.  There were a hundred or so of us at the U last night listening to Nancy Pearl interview William Gibson, but in a city the size of Seattle, every seat should have been taken.  The best news, is many that were ... http://www.brenda-cooper.com/2008/06/21/william-gibson-interview/ A few posts ago, I promised to discuss the outcome of reading three books and studying setting.  As a reminder, this is associated with a group of writers I gather with to discuss bestsellers, so we pick bestselling work for a variety of genres and look at different characteristics, often ... http://www.brenda-cooper.com/2008/06/18/studies-in-setting/ The futurist and the writer in me adore the morning paper. Why? It's an industry that matters - read it online or get ink on your fingers.  But we need a free press, and while the blogosphere is a grand part of that, we need press that has some funding and ... http://www.brenda-cooper.com/2008/06/16/reading-recommendation-good-daily-newspapers/ A few years ago, after BUILDING HARLEQUIN'S MOON but before I finished THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA, a fellow writer who was one of my first readers (Darragh Metzger) commented regularly on chapter openings.  She took me to task everytime I opened with anything except specific sensory details.  Well, for ... http://www.brenda-cooper.com/2008/06/04/opening-chapters/