[podcast]http://edwardwillett.com/wp-content/uploads//2011/10/Ebooks-vs-Print-Books.mp3[/podcast] Once upon a time, the word “book” meant only one thing: a stack of paper printed with text and bound together along one edge. These days, though, the word “book” has developed two meanings. You can still read a bound-stack-of-paper book, but you can also read a book without ever touching anything that was …
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The Space-Time Continuum: In praise of Locus
Here’s the latest of my SF/fantasy columns for the Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild’s magazine Freelance. *** For most of the world, Charlie Brown is only a beloved cartoon character with a round head. But for those immersed in the science fiction and fantasy genres, Charlie Brown was also the nickname (though he hated it) of Charles …
Lynn Viehl’s The Devil’s Writing Dictionary: Part 1
Lynn Viehl, who has previously graced us with The Devil’s Publishing Dictionary, now offers The Devil’s Writing Dictionary Part I. Lots of great entries, but since I’m working (okay, technically I’m blogging at the moment, not working, but you know what I mean) on the revisions for Terra Insegura, the ones that struck me were: …
Gripping new trilogies ‘r’ us
In the wake of discovering yesterday that I’m apparently writing a “gripping new trilogy” (who knew?) I thought I’d see who else has written gripping new trilogies. Other books described, on the pages linked to below, as the first in a gripping new trilogy (although in each case the phrase almost certainly originated with the …
Sometimes being a freelancer sucks
Take today, for instance. I just found out that a major project I thought I would be writing has fallen through…and it was one I was really looking forward to. (No, I hasten to reassure you, not the sequel to Marseguro: as far as I know, Terra Insegura is still a go.) And it’s not …
Marseguro description in Publisher’s Weekly
Dug up on the Web: a description of Marseguro from the August 6 Publisher’s Weekly: Marseguro (Jan., $7.99) by Edward Willett. After a worldwide disaster, a fanatical religious theocracy takes over the planet.Well, yes, but that’s not really what the story is about. In fact, that’s really the backstory. What happens is… Well, you’ll see.
My publisher revamps its website!
OK, not the hugest news in the world, but until now the DAW Books website was a good two years out of date and, quelle horreur, my name did not appear on it anywhere. Now, it does!
The shocking truth about the slush pile…
…is revealed by one buried beneath it: It was my first job out of university: I was bright-eyed and idealistic and imagined that I might become some kind of beneficent tweedy sprite, conveying the writing of unknown literary artistes to the masses. By the time I left my job in publishing a few weeks ago, …
When webscabs unite
Bloggasm has an excellent retrospective of International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day.
Fantasy interruptus
I spent the last week or so writing three “audition” chapters for a book packager looking for an author for a new kids’ fantasy series. They provided a detailed outline, I provided the words. It was a lot of fun, actually, and I really got into it…so much so that, now that my three chapters …
International Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day
In response to this rant by the outgoing Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America vice-president Howard V. Hendrix, in which he takes issue with the growing practice of writers posting work online for anyone to read for free, World Fantasy Winner and current Nebula Award nominee Jo Walton has had an idea: I am …
"So, how did it go?"
I’m sure that’s the question you’re dying to ask about my telephone conversation with my editor at DAW, Sheila Gilbert, earlier today. It went very well…it also went on for an hour and a half and produced five single-spaced pages of notes. I now have a couple of months to rewrite the whole thing and …
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