Booksignings?

January 31st 2006 at 3:11 pm

Someone nicely asked me by email about what kind of book touring I’d be doing. On the back of my ARCs it says ‘regional book tours’ which I think any of you can decode as ‘anywhere the author is willing to drive within half a day or so to and back from.’
This is […]

Paul Graham’s Excellent Essay ‘How to Do What You Love’

January 31st 2006 at 3:10 pm

How to Do What You Love:
To do something well you have to like it. That idea is not exactly novel. We’ve got it down to four words: “Do what you love.” But it’s not enough just to tell people that. Doing what you love is complicated.
The very idea is foreign to what most of us […]

AboutSF.com

January 31st 2006 at 12:40 pm

AboutSF Homepage features an SF speaker’s bureau. If you’re an SF/F writer/futurist, get your info up on there!
If you’re looking for speakers, it’s a great place to trawl for info.

Crystal Rain: Chapter 13

January 31st 2006 at 10:21 am

Another chapter of Crystal Rain is up, Crystal Rain: Chapter 13, at the Crystal Rain excerpts page at www.Crystal-Rain.com.
Enjoy. And if you find that you like them, please post links to the Crystal Rain page or the excerpts page or the Crystal Rain blog, it’s much appreciated.

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Bennies

January 31st 2006 at 7:55 am

John Scalzi writes:
One of the nice benefits of being an author and/or having a blog a few people visit is now I get advance reader copies of books I want before the rest of mass of humanity gets its grubby little paws on them
This is a very cool side benefit to having a weblog that […]

Online Calendaring App

January 31st 2006 at 12:33 am

spongecell:
This is the best online calendar app I’ve seen. It features a bar at the top that lets you quickly type in a message, like ‘meet Mark at 10pm on Friday’ and it figures that out and slaps it into your schedule. You can also email or text your calendar messages like that and it’ll […]

Crystal Rain: Chapter 12

January 30th 2006 at 1:18 pm

Another chapter of Crystal Rain is up, Crystal Rain: Chapter 12, at the Crystal Rain excerpts page at www.Crystal-Rain.com.
Enjoy. And if you find that you like them, please post links to the Crystal Rain page or the excerpts page or the Crystal Rain blog, it’s much appreciated.

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Sci Fi Weekly Review

January 30th 2006 at 10:32 am

Sci Fi Weekly has a review of Crystal Rain by Paul Di Filippo. It scores an ‘A’ on their ranking. It also gives a lot of spoilers in the summary, but that’s okay, I always tell people I teach that’s why you want to write the book/story with the assumption that someone is reading it […]

Emerald City Review

January 29th 2006 at 6:01 pm

Cheryl Morgan at Emerald City just posted the latest issue which includes a wonderful review of Crystal Rain:
One of the reasons I like looking for books written by people from different cultural backgrounds is that they tend to produce interesting SF worlds. Tobias S. Buckell lives in Ohio, but he was brought up in the […]

Dragonpage

January 28th 2006 at 4:32 pm

Just finished doing a phone in interview with the cool folks at Dragonpage where I ‘ummmed’ my way through and did my best to hopefully not come off sounding like too much of an idiot. The interview will be out Feb 6th. You can see the last interview they did with John Scalzi and sub […]