Search Results: Amazon

“Slow Time Between the Stars” Now Out on Amazon and Audible

Posted on June 27, 2023 10 Comments

Today’s the day! My new story “Slow Time Between the Stars” is out on Amazon and Audible, as part of the Far Reaches collection, in Kindle and audio versions. If you buy the text version, you get the audio version, narrated by Kay Eluvian, as well; they’re bundled together. If you are a subscriber to […]

The Kaiju Preservation Society a New York Times, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Independent Booksellers, Amazon and Audible Bestseller

Posted on March 23, 2022 42 Comments

How is Kaiju a bestseller? Let’s add it up! New York Times: #10 (Combined Print & eBook) USA Today: #19 (This list covers all books sold in the US) Audible: #6 (Audiobook Fiction) Los Angeles Times: #4 (Hardcover Fiction) Indie Booksellers: #10 (Hardcover Fiction) Amazon: #15 (Fiction, across all formats) You know what? This is […]

The Kaiju Preservation Society an Amazon “Best of 2022” in SF/F, and an Opening Round Nominee for the Goodreads Choice Awards

Posted on November 15, 2022 12 Comments

The headline pretty much sums it up. I’m pleased on both counts. It’s nice to be appreciated here in the bottom half of 2022. That said, if you would like to vote for Kaiju for in the Goodreads Choice Awards (or for any other nominee, if in fact you prefer them better, although if you […]

Coming in Exactly Two Weeks: “Slow Time Between the Stars” – Part of the “Far Reaches” Collection

Posted on June 13, 2023 10 Comments

And just what is “Slow Time Between the Stars?” Well, it’s a short story I wrote as part of a collection that Amazon Stories is putting out called “Far Reaches.” My story will be joining stories by James SA Corey, Nnedi Okorafor, Rebecca Roanhorse, Veronica Roth and Ann Leckie, all with the (very) loose theme […]

A Small But Important Change to the Big Idea

Posted on April 12, 2023 12 Comments

If you read the Big Idea posts — and you should! — you’ll know at the end of each post there is the post-essay informational part, which includes links to booksellers, excerpts from the book, and then links to the author’s personal site and Twitter presence. Well, starting today, I’m making a change to that […]

The Kaiju Preservation Society a Finalist for the Dragon Award

Posted on August 11, 2022 13 Comments

And, well, that’s pretty damn cool. Here’s the whole ballot of finalists, and at the bottom of that I’ll put in a link so you can go vote for whomever you like. 1. Best Science Fiction NovelLeviathan Falls by James S.A. CoreyThe Kaiju Preservation Society by John ScalziGoliath: A Novel by Tochi OnyebuchiYou Sexy Thing by Cat RamboShards of […]

Housekeeping Note For Big Idea Pieces, re: Bookshop.org

Posted on February 7, 2023 5 Comments

This is a small thing but worth noting: Inasmuch as Bookshop.org is taking over sales for Indiebound.org starting March 1, I’m going ahead and making Bookshop.org one of the default bookseller links for the Big Idea pieces, along with Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Powell’s. Existing Indiebound links will stay in place (because I am […]

The Big Idea: Yukimi Ogawa

Posted on May 26, 2023 3 Comments

It’s a special talent to write in a language that you’ve learned along the way. In this Big Idea for author Yukimi Ogawa’s new collection of short stories, Like Smoke, Like Light, she explains why this choice was an essential one for her. YUKIMI OGAWA: Years ago, somewhere on the internet, I saw someone remark […]

HBO Max Subtitles Need To Get With the Program

Posted on January 24, 2023 43 Comments

I, like many others, have been watching The Last of Us on HBO Max. I have also been watching it with subtitles, and I’m shocked at how garbage they are. You would think that such a huge, expensive, and widely-anticipated show would cater better to its subtitle-using audience, but you’d be severely disappointed. What do I […]

The Big Idea: Sheila Jenne

Posted on July 24, 2023 11 Comments

Authors often use the past for inspiration. But what point does the inspiration of earlier days become a problem for the setting our author wants to write for? It’s a question Sheila Jenne confronts in this Big Idea for Black Sails to Sunward. SHELIA JENNE: My dad has two major obsessions: space and the sea. […]

Whatever Holiday Gift Guide 2022, Day One: Traditionally Published Books

Posted on November 28, 2022 95 Comments

Welcome to the first day of the Whatever Shopping Guide 2022 — Our way of helping you folks learn about cool creative gifts for the holidays, straight from the folks who have created them. Today’s featured products are traditionally published books (including graphic novels and audiobooks); that is, books put out by publishers who ship books to stores […]

The Big Idea: Joe R. Lansdale

Posted on August 17, 2023 6 Comments

Today’s Big Idea is short… but is it sweet? Joe R. Lansdale’s collection title promises that Things Get Ugly, and maybe, sometimes, that’s the way it should be. JOE LANSDALE: Things Get Ugly has been years in the making, containing my best crime stories from the eighties on. Not every crime story I’ve written is […]

The Big Idea: Jane Yolen

Posted on February 15, 2023 5 Comments

This Big Idea, for Jane Yolen’s new book The Scarlet Circus, tangentially involves me! In, I must admit, pretty flattering way. JANE YOLEN: I have loved John Scalzi, his work, and his Big Idea column for many years. I even wrote a bunch of stuff for him along the way. But in the manner of fantasy […]

The Big Idea: Lavie Tidhar

Posted on November 3, 2022

Another year, another anthology: doesn’t editor and author Lavie Tidhar have other things to do with his time? No! (Well, maybe, but not to the exclusion of this.) Turns out, he’s on a mission, and that mission has resulted in The Best of World SF: Volume 2. Here’s Tidhar to explain. LAVIE TIDHAR: The Best […]

My New EP “How Far From Home Do You Want To Go” Is Out Now

Posted on April 16, 2023 7 Comments

Sunday is not the usual day for releasing new music, but then it’s not like my homemade electronic stylings are a cog in a huge music company machine, it’s just me uploading stuff through Distrokid, so: Hey! Guess what! I have a new EP out today! It’s called How Far From Home Do You Want […]

The Big Idea: M. A. Carrick

Posted on August 16, 2023 2 Comments

Collaboration is key. Whether it’s writing a book together, backing a Kickstarter together, or changing the world together, people need each other to make things the best version they can be. Follow along with authors Alyc and Marie, who joined together as M. A. Carrick to bring you the newest novel in their Rook and […]

The Big Idea: J.S. Fields

Posted on October 19, 2022 4 Comments

There are many ways in which small indie presses and large traditional presses differ, and in this Big Idea for the anthology Farther Reefs, co-editor J.S. Fields identifies one that you might not expect. What’s this difference? Read on! J. S. FIELDS: Lesbians. Okay wait. Hear me out. As someone who writes in both traditional […]

OMG is the AI Coming For My Job?!???!??!!!?!?!?

Posted on February 23, 2023 59 Comments

Technically yes, as this New York Times story about people flooding science fiction magazines with AI-generated story submissions makes evident. But realistically, no, because all these generated stories are kinda trash, and anyway, it’s not the AI that’s flooding the submissions pile with crap, it’s people — scamsters looking for a quick shot of money, […]

The Big Idea: Jon Evans

Posted on September 5, 2023 8 Comments

There’s the observation that at any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic. In Jon Evans’ new novel Exadelic, this may be more right than anyone ever suspected. JON EVANS: Exadelic‘s big idea is why it is, probably, the only book about occult magic categorized by Amazon as ‘Hard Science Fiction.’ That high concept: in […]

The Big Idea: Jules Sherred

Posted on May 11, 2023 11 Comments

Cooking is for everyone, and Jules Sherred is reminding everyone of that with his new book Crip Up the Kitchen: Tools, Tips and Recipes for the Disabled Cook, which aims to help make the activity more accessible to those who might have previously felt excluded from it. JULES SHERRED: If you were to ask my […]

1 2 3 … 51 »

%d bloggers like this: