I arrived in Calgary about 1 p.m. today for the World Fantasy Convention, registered, and picked up the book bag. Holy library, Batman! Look at this thing. And yes, that is a copy of my very own novel Marseguro on top: DAW graciously provided 300 of them for giveaway at this con. Which I hope …
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Another satisfied reader!
A Science Fiction Book Club member writes on the club’s page for Marseguro: “Good read, strong character…I enjoyed this book all in one evening. It was too good to put down. Strong female character and good evolution of all the central characters.” There have been enough good reviews from various sources now I’m starting to …
A new review of Lost in Translation
This review of my first DAW paperback Lost in Translation popped up today at Sci-Fi & Fantasy Books and Music Review: Science Fiction, with telepaths, cool looking cat creatures and the brink of war. How cool is that?… This one snuck up on me. I grabbed it because it looked like a fairly straight forward …
The Plot Synopsis Project II
Last week, I posted one of my successful query letters as part of the Query Project, organized by my fellow DAW author Joshua Palmetier. Joshua has previously organized The Plot Synopsis Project, in which published authors posted synopses they used to seel books, and now he’s gone and done it again–and I’m pleased to be …
The Query Project
My fellow DAW author Joshua Palmetier has taken it upon himself to coordinate something called The Query Project. He’s asked a number of published authors to post, on September 12, one of their actual query letters that led to them getting a publisher or agent, and comment on the art of writing queries in general. …
What I Just Read: Anathem
From the very beginning of this blog I’ve wanted to use it to keep track of books I’ve read and give my reactions to them–brief reactions, because I have neither the time nor inclination to be a full-fledged book reviewer, I decided long ago–and yet somehow, I’ve almost never done it. But let me attempt …
A grumpy response to the aforementioned melding of minds
Andrew Wheeler reacts grumpily to the Mind Meld at SF Signal that I’m part of this week (his title: King Canute Has a Posse), and has this to say about my small contribution: Edward Willet [sic–I really wish I had a dime for every time someone leaves the second “T” off my name] opines that …
Mind-melded
SF Site has posted its latest Mind Meld, in which it asks various SF writers to weigh in with their answer to a particular question. I was one of those asked this time around; read my (and other’s) responses to the question “If You Could Change Any Aspect of The Science Fiction Field, What Would …
The World Science Fiction Convention – the science column
Long-term readers of this column will know that, every so often, I go off to science fiction conventions. I’ve done it again: I just finished attending the 66th Annual World Science Fiction Convention in Denver. It was, as WorldCons almost always have been for me, a wonderful experience…although that experience has changed over the years. …
Denvention: Day 4 & 5
And so the whole thing winds down. Yesterday was my favorite day in a lot of ways, although the most important factor there was only peripherally connected to the convention: I spent two hours with my DAW editor, Sheila Gilbert, in the morning going over revisions for Terra Insegura. (“Does everyone get notes like these?” …
Denvention: Day 3
(OK, actually I’m posting this around midnight on Day 4, but pretend, OK?) Friday was a great day at the con, starting with a good panel on Canadian Science Fiction with Barb Galler-Smith (fiction editor of On Spec magazine, who has just sold a book to EDGE), Robert J. Sawyer, Jo Walton and Christian Sauvé. …
Denvention: Day 2
And so Day 2 has come and gone (at least for those of us for whom 11 p.m. is still a reasonable time to head to one’s hotel room). It was a good one for me. Things started off with a bang with the panel I mentioned a few days ago featuring writers reading their …
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