Findlay gets (Greg) Frost

May 31st 2008 at 6:45 am

Greg Frost hung around the Wisconsin area after Wiscon (a convention held last weekend) a while before making his way down to Findlay last night, which is about 14 minutes drive north of my house, where we both did a booksigning at The Stately Raven.
Greg and I shared a table of contents in the anthology […]

Chris Gerrib reviews Sly Mongoose

May 30th 2008 at 12:36 pm

Chris Gerrib reviews Sly Mongoose for TCM:
Buckell has a superb grasp of pacing and the writing of action sequences. He uses his Caribbean background to render dialects sharply, and has a good grasp of characters. But this is not just a space shoot-it-up. Buckell, thanks to his strong world-building, gets in some […]

Indy publishers versus big hourses

May 30th 2008 at 9:23 am

My friend Mark Terry looks at the differences between smaller presses and big houses:
Are small presses more willing to take a chance on something unique?
The assumption being that the reason you’re being turned down by larger publishers is that you’re too “unique,” but I don’t know. That seems to be the rumor, but I reviewed […]

Controuble reviews Sly Mongoose

May 30th 2008 at 8:45 am

LJ user controuble takes a look at Sly Mongoose, saying “This book started off with the action already in progress and it continued almost non-stop.” Some (minor) spoilers (related to what happens to Pepper right after chapter one) there in the review, FYI, but controuble ends with “I will definitely pick up a copy of […]

My basement: full of fail

May 29th 2008 at 2:51 pm

And on a personal note I just got a tour of my basement by experts and got the news I’d been secretly hoping I wouldn’t get, and was dreading. Dreading very much.
Mold problems.

SMS is the current generation’s email service

May 29th 2008 at 7:41 am

I spent several minutes this morning setting up twitter so that I could SMS (phone text message) into it. Twitter updates my facebook status. I have 145 contacts in my Facebook profile, more than in my address book formally. My blog is refed to LiveJournal, and also to MySpace.
Over the last couple months people have […]

Morning show radio interview

May 29th 2008 at 7:11 am

This morning I spoke to the hosts of 96.7 WBVI in the area about the upcoming book signing. The shareware app I used to capture the audio starts adding in static about 5 minutes in or so to convince me to purchase it. I would buy it if I could retro-actively remove the static, but […]

Streuner… and win a free copy of Sly Mongoose

May 29th 2008 at 5:52 am

Copies of the German edition of Ragamuffin just arrived today. Pretty nifty, if you ask me.

My editor also had a handful of copies of the paperback of Ragamuffin with him, as it appears on the street in a few days here (some of you should start seeing it in bookstores and the like any day […]

Early Reviews

May 28th 2008 at 1:42 pm

In the comments to an early Sly Mongoose review, I was asked by Ken of Neth Space:
I’m curious about what you think about reviews going live so far in advance of publication. I know that some like PW and Kirkus influence things like library orders and such. But with a blogger/fan review may have a […]

June 7th booksigning, Columbus, Ohio

May 28th 2008 at 1:10 pm

Book Signing - June 7th
June 7 — Science Fiction Authors’ panel and book signing with Paolo Bacigalupi, Tobias Buckell, Charles Coleman Finlay, Sandra McDonald, Paul Melko and Sarah Prineas, 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble Bookseller, 1739 Olentangy River Rd. Columbus, Ohio; 614-298-9516.
That’s a fully awesome list of fully awesome writers, so if you’re in the […]