Daily Archives: April 2, 2009
Ohioana Book Festival Appearance
Posted on April 2, 2009 9 Comments
This May 9th, I’m going to be a featured author at the Ohioana Book Festival, in Columbus, which is a festival dedicated to showing off the literary talents of Ohio’s resident authors. In addition to the featured authors (which aside from me include R.L. Stine, Margaret Peterson Haddix and seven others), there will be an […]
Reader Request Week #7: Writing and Babies
Posted on April 2, 2009 38 Comments
Jess Nevins (who not too long ago sent me a rather spectacular gift which I’m not sure I ever actually thanked him for, so thanks, Jess, and the next time I see you I plan to reciprocate in some way) asks: How did you manage to be a productive writer in the first two years […]
Hugo Voter Packet Update
Posted on April 2, 2009 33 Comments
It’s coming along nicely but damn, is it huge. We have a lot of nominees participating, in a whole bunch of categories. I strongly suspect just e-mailing it won’t work this time around, so I’m looking at ways to do a password-protected download, optimally where I can generate a new password for each person. If […]
Reader Request Week #6: 80s Pop Music
Posted on April 2, 2009 55 Comments
Lis Riba asks: So, why is the pop music from the early 1980s just so damn good? It’s not. Or more accurately, it is neither quantitively nor qualitively better than pop music from any other particular music era one might choose to think of. However, at the moment it has the advantage of being the […]
The Sounds of METAtropolis — Free For a Limited Time
Posted on April 2, 2009 45 Comments
The folks at Audible.com are very excited that METAtropolis has been nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form — it’s that whole “hey, we’re breaking ground by being the first audiobook nominated for a Hugo” thing. The Audible folks are also aware that when you’re an audiobook up against The Dark […]
Movie Novelizations That Don’t Suck
Posted on April 2, 2009
This week over at AMC, I talk about why movie novelizations exist at all, and why they don’t have to suck, even if a lot of them do. And yes, I give examples of novelizations that rock. If you can think of some other examples, leave them in the comments over there.
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