Tag: books

I are a group

No, not a groupie–a group. Specifically, a Facebook group. In my ongoing quest to try to get anyone, anyone at all, to buy any (or all) of my books, I’ve decided to try setting up a Facebook group to which I’ll post writing news. Yeah, I know, that’s what I do here, but I have …

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Lookie what I found…

…on Amazon.ca: the cover art for my upcoming book Historic Walks of Regina and Moose Jaw! It must be getting close.

Marseguro available for pre-order!

Well, well, look at this: my new novel from DAW Books, Marseguro, is listed on Amazon.com, which means you can pre-order it already, even though it’s not due out until February: Cool! Buy now and avoid the rush!

"How many books have you written?"

It’s a question I keep getting asked. In Yorkton last year at a library reading a local reporter showed up and asked me. I said “more than 30.” She gave me a withering look of scorn and said in a rather hostile and sarcastic tone (an odd attitude for a reporter to take with an …

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Saskatchewan author up for major science fiction award

Alas, it isn’t me. Nevertheless, congratulations to Barbara Sapergia, whose novel Dry (Coteau Books) is one of the finalists for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science fiction novel of 2006. (I suspect Barbara doesn’t self-identify as a science fiction writer, based on her biography on the Coteau site, so this may …

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"Bad books are an essential part of life"

Praise for bad books from The New York Times: Bad books are an essential part of life, as entertaining and indispensable as bad clothing (ironic polyester shirts), bad music (John Tesh at Red Rocks, Phil Collins anywhere), bad trends (metrosexuality, not using toilet paper for a year in order to “help” the environment) and bad …

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"Tramping alien territory in search of the Fountain of Sales"

In the course of writing about the demise of “plogs” (author blogs attached to books on Amazon), Victoria Strauss pegs something I’ve been thinking, too: In the harsh world of self-promotion, we’re all snatching at straws, reading runes, casting spells, and chasing our own tails, hoping that each new opportunity–websites! Blogs! Plogs! MySpace! Podcasting!–will be …

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From Verne to Vonnegut…

…is the name of this exhibition, celebrating “A Century of Science Fiction,” at the University of Delaware Library. I’ve only scratched the surface of what they’ve put on the Web, but I’ll be back to read it in depth. Alas, it seems unlikely I’ll make it to the University of Delaware to see the actual …

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The medieval help desk

Yes, I know, thousands of people have already linked to this video of a patient medieval tech support worker guiding a monk in the usage of the very latest information storage technology…but I haven’t! Well, until now, that is.

“If I had not lived until I was 90, I would not have been able to write this book”

At his Ficlets blog, John Scalzi points to the amazing story of Harry Bernstein, “whose new novel is getting him fame and attention at the tender age of 96.” Bernstein published his first short story in 1934. It took seven decades for his next literary achievement. His novel The Invisible Wall is about his early …

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I wrote all that?

Yes, I guess I did: I just discovered the FantasticFiction page about myself. The site’s creators (or more likely their software) have donea better job of compiling everything I’ve written than I have! It’s a rather long list when you see it all strung out like that.

Mrs. Beeton’s Ad of the Day

Borwick’s was founded by George Borwick sometime in the 19th century–there are old ads for it all over the Web, including at the British Museum–and you can still buy their powders today. It was obviously a successful business: George Borwick got a barony out of it.

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