Busy on new story, plus some new reviews

July 31st 2007 at 4:41 pm

I have a deadline of today for a story for a themed anthology that I’m trying to wrap up. I’m not convinced I think the story is 100%, so I tore it back down this morning after working out and spent an hour on the couch with a notepad, and then nothing particularly “OMG this […]

Canceling on Context

July 30th 2007 at 3:48 pm

Context is one of my favorite regional conventions, but I have just had to cancel attending as I will be a groomsman at a wedding instead.
I will be at Flights of Fantasy bookstore in Loudonville, NY, in mid August. Until I finish Sly Mongoose, I will not be attending anything.
But I do have early plans […]

On author blogging

July 30th 2007 at 3:03 pm

Amy Sterling Casil asked a few of us author-bloggers on SFF.Net what it does for our careers and what kind of traffic we get. She summarized answers from a bunch of SF writers here on her blog.

Cat vs music

July 30th 2007 at 2:44 pm

My Maine Coon doesn’t like Metallica. He was sitting in the editing chair when ‘Fuel’ launched up randomly on the playlist and he sat up, blinking, and just made the most annoyed face.
What music does your pet not like?

Fantasy Hotlist interview

July 30th 2007 at 2:35 pm

I’m back home in my office, after catching up on some sleep, and I just spotted that a new interview with me is up live at the Fantasy Hotlist:
- Honestly, do you believe that the speculative fiction genre will ever come to be recognized as veritable literature? Truth be told, in my opinion there has […]

Spezzatura’s notes on Taos Toolbox

July 28th 2007 at 9:13 am

Livejournal user Spezzatura took a ton of notes on plotting at the Taos Toolbox workshop as presented by a number of very cool authors.
Here’s pt 1: Connie Willis
And pt 2: Sean Stewart
And pt 3: Walter Jon Williams
And pt 4
And pt 5.
Lots of good stuff there.

The Business of Writing part two

July 28th 2007 at 9:12 am

Here is part two of the video I started off with yesterday:

Here’s a direct link to it in case you’d like to share it, etc.
Here’s the link to part one.

The Business of Writing: video

July 27th 2007 at 8:20 am

Part one of a 2 part quick lecture about the business of writing, followed by student questions.
Tobias Buckell talks to the Alpha young writers workshop about what it takes to make a career in writing science fiction and fantasy and takes questions from the audience. Held at the University of Pittsburgh, Greenburg Campus.

Here is the […]

Here at the Alpha workshop

July 26th 2007 at 6:31 pm

Here in Greensburg, PA, every summer a group of SF/F writers from the age of 14-19 are gathered together by John Schmid, Diane Turnshek, and Anne Cecil to spend a week and a half being taught by guests like Tamora Pierce, Wen Spencer, Charles Coleman Finlay, Catherina Asaro. And that was just this year. Staff […]

SF/F authors considered as high school students

July 25th 2007 at 4:43 pm

It’s funny. We certainly tend to fight in SFWA like high school students at times.
Conversation topic: I’m in the freshman table right, but where do you think I’m going to end up if Stephen writes this entry again in a few years?
Yes, they do tend to divide themselves up like this. Lunchtime is an especially […]