Monthly Archives: March 2022
View From a Hotel Window, 3/17/22: Richmond
Posted on March 17, 2022 7 Comments
St. Patrick’s Day is rainy here in Richmond, but we’re still going to have a good time at tonight’s event, which is at 6pm at Sam Miller’s Restaurant, presented by Fountain Bookstore. Remember that proof of vaccination will be required, so be ready to show that off (I have mine on my phone). Tomorrow: I’m […]
The Big Idea: J.L. Worrad
Posted on March 17, 2022 7 Comments
Sometimes an idea or concept gets played with so much in fantasy and science fiction that it seems impossible to try to reclaim it from the trope pile. What to do? If you’re J.L. Worrad, you try to breathe new life into it anyway… and in doing so discover something essential about it, as he […]
View From a Hotel Window, 3/16/22: Decatur
Posted on March 17, 2022 4 Comments
I neglected to post this yesterday, on account that during the time that I usually post a picture like this, I took a nap. But better late than never! My window this time looks in on an interior courtyard. And has this cool light fixture in it, so, I thought you would still like to […]
View From a Hotel Window, 3/15/22: Chapel Hill
Posted on March 15, 2022 8 Comments
After a very early morning, I have landed in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, for the first event of the book tour, at Flyleaf Books. Things are going a little bit differently this time, with the signing starting at 5:00 p.m., followed by the actual event at 6:00 p.m. so if you are coming, remember to […]
The Kaiju Preservation Society: Out Now!
Posted on March 15, 2022 34 Comments
Finally! My newest book, The Kaiju Preservation Society, is out and in the world (or at least, in the US and Canada, the UK edition comes out on Thursday). It’s available in Hardcover and eBook, and also in Audio, read by Wil Wheaton. You can get it at your local bookseller, or online: Amazon|Barnes & […]
Back Home, Briefly
Posted on March 14, 2022 8 Comments
We were supposed to be back home on Saturday and I was meant to have a full day to act like a sloth before I started tour activities. Ha! Ha! Ha! Our flights were delayed and we ended up flying into Indianapolis yesterday and having friends driving us to the Dayton airport to pick up […]
The Big Idea: J.D. DeLuzio
Posted on March 11, 2022 8 Comments
With a book title like Live Nude Aliens, it’s obvious that J.D. DeLuzio is going to be writing from perspectives other than his own. But in this Big Idea, DeLuzio shares how when it comes to writing the other, he gets by with a little help from his friends. J.D. DeLUZIO: Imagine that in 1953, […]
The Big Idea: Max Gladstone
Posted on March 9, 2022 8 Comments
Fasten your seatbelts, folks: Max Gladstone is about to take you on a trip. It goes to his past, and through it, and winds up at the heart of his latest novel, Last Exit. MAX GLADSTONE: In the summers, we packed the van and left. My parents were high school teachers then. We didn’t have […]
The Big Idea: Khan Wong
Posted on March 8, 2022 2 Comments
What is the purpose and meaning of art? Ask a thousand artists, you’ll get a thousand answers — and in this Big Idea for The Circus Infinite, author Khan Wong offers his take… and it’s a compelling one. KHAN WONG: I have long understood that the arts hold greater capacity than to merely decorate or […]
Russian Royalties
Posted on March 5, 2022
I’ve had a few people note I have book sales in Russia, and were curious what my thoughts were about that given the Russian invasion of Ukraine. So, with respect to my Russian sales: 1. I’ve instructed my agent to pause any contracts currently under negotiation in Russia and Belarus, and halt sales of future […]
The Big Idea: Sarah Tolmie
Posted on March 4, 2022 4 Comments
You may know of the short, stocky horses of Iceland. But Sarah Tolmie discovered something interesting about the horses of Iceland, and decided that therein would lie a tale, entitled, of course, All the Horses of Iceland. SARAH TOLMIE: Attending the Iceland Writers Conference in 2018, I had the opportunity to ride an Icelandic horse […]
Vacation Mode is [ON]
Posted on March 3, 2022 12 Comments
I’m off to the JoCo Cruise for the next week, and while I have populated in the Big Idea pieces between now and when I return, you probably shouldn’t expect too much else here from me between now and then, unless I decide to torture you with pictures of tropical paradise and what not. Likewise, […]
The Big Idea: Katherine Cowley
Posted on March 3, 2022 5 Comments
If you think “fake news” is a new innovation, well, Katharine Cowley has news for you: It’s rather older than you think. She offers an example from the pages of history, and explains how it became a part of her novel, The True Confessions of a London Spy. KATHERINE COWLEY: I like giving myself constraints. […]
What I Did With My Wednesday
Posted on March 2, 2022 14 Comments
I signed a shitload of books. Here are some but not all of them. If you ordered a signed copy of Kaiju from Subterranean Press, it has now been signed and will be on its way to you presently (timed to arrived on or near the actual date of publication). I drove to Michigan to […]
The Big Idea: G.R. Macallister
Posted on March 2, 2022 10 Comments
When you sense something is lacking in a genre you love, how much effort does it take you as a writer to address it? For G.R. Macallister, quite a lot — and in writing her novel Scorpica, she learned that sometimes it means digging down into the language itself to make the story sing. G.R. […]
Very Quick Thoughts on Brandon Sanderson’s Mega Kickstarter
Posted on March 1, 2022 65 Comments
Context: Brandon Sanderson, who has been a #1 New York Times bestseller as co-writer of the Wheel of Time series and his own Stormlight Archives novels, announced a Kickstarter in which he offered four previously unannounced novels as well as a “Year of Sanderson” swag boxes, all to be delivered in 2023. Announced today, the […]
The End of an Era (Again)
Posted on March 1, 2022 71 Comments
The Post-Cold War Era now officially has birth and death dates: It was born on November 9, 1989, which is the day when the Berlin Wall fell, and it died on February 24, 2022, which is when Russia invaded Ukraine. Those 32 years, 3 months and 16 days were not all great (and I need […]
The Big Idea: Sean Patrick Hazlett
Posted on March 1, 2022 3 Comments
Editor Sean Patrick Hazlett has an anthology about war coming out at, shall we say, an evocative time — and as he explains in this Big Idea, the stories in the Weird World War IV anthology are not blind to the events in the world as it happened over the last couple of years. SEAN […]
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