Second Book Sold To TOR

January 31st 2005 at 11:45 am

Some of you may remember that I’d worked on the proposal for book 2, called Ragamuffin, back in April/March 2004, and notice that I’m slowly getting up to steam on writing the book this month. The good news is that TOR is taking Ragamuffin! The turn in date for Ragamuffin will be September 22nd, 2005.
Crystal […]

Latest Crystal Rain Blurb

January 31st 2005 at 10:48 am

Cory Doctorow was kind enough to blurb Crystal Rain last week and had this to say:
“A cracking adventure yarn from an exciting new writer.” -Cory Doctorow, author of Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town; co-editor of Boing Boing
It’s exciting to see that people are enjoying the novel, it’s getting me excited to see how […]

Crystal Rain Page Created

January 31st 2005 at 10:45 am

I’ve created a simple place holder page for Crystal Rain that collects some of the blurbs we’ve gotten so far, the latest news about Crystal Rain, a link to all past news, and a dedicated RSS feed just for Crystal Rain.
When I get the cover as it will be on the book and the cover […]

Catching Up

January 31st 2005 at 9:49 am

Had a great, relaxing weekend where I didn’t spend much time online. Managed to catch some of season 4 of the BBC comedy series “Coupling” thanks to some friends having us over to see the first 2 episodes, and then lending us the DVD of season 4. “Coupling” is one of the few series I’ve […]

Jim Kelly’s On The Net

January 28th 2005 at 12:03 pm

“On the Net: Breathing the Blogosphere ” by James Patrick Kelly lists 40 genre related blogs and gives some of the history of blogs, and even includes a link here.
It’s certainly august company he put me in, so thanks Jim!

Clarion Auction

January 28th 2005 at 12:00 pm

The Clarion SF/F Workshop, which I found an enormous help back in 1999 to starting my own journey down to the path to published author-dude, is auctioning off books by various writers to raise money and keep them in business.
You can even find something up there that I’ve contributed. I’ll sign the book personally to […]

The Quills

January 27th 2005 at 9:58 am

Sarah Weinman points out that NBC and Reed Business International are creating an authors and books version of the red carpet TV awards shows called The Quills. Now there is a very interesting idea. I like it, I think that more attention like that is good. It reminds readers books are still out there. It […]

NY Reading…

January 27th 2005 at 9:50 am

Dave Kirtley notes that he’ll be giving a reading on February the 7th, in case you live in New York and want to catch some cool authors, here are the other authors who’ll be reading:

Richard Bowes
Jae Brim
Robert J. Howe
Barbara Krasnoff
The always incredibly cool William Shunn will be the host.

It will be held at the Melville […]

Shameless Self Promotion

January 26th 2005 at 10:27 am

Hugo voting is now up and running at the Interaction website for last years attendees and those who’ve purchased memberships for this year already. In case you are interested I have three stories eligible, two of which you can read without ordering the anthology they were in (Necahual and Her). If you would like to […]

Erin and the Dinosaurs

January 25th 2005 at 10:33 pm

It was Wednesday morning when Erin noticed the dinosaurs in her kitchen.

Jon Hansen’s latest story is up at the Abyss & Apex, and I love his first line, enough that I think it also be titled ‘Dinosaurs In The Kitchen…’