Archive for October, 2008
Ask a writer: marketing
October 30th 2008 at 3:07 pm
I answer a question over at Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing about marketing and new writers.
Um, wasn’t worshiping a golden bovine NOT cool according to God
October 30th 2008 at 2:58 pm
I’m just saying, I think these people just might be biblically illiterate:
Today was deemed some sort of pray for Wall Street day.
The picture is priceless.
You can’t make this shit up.
You really can’t.
November appearances/schedule
October 29th 2008 at 4:50 pm
Places I’ll be this November, from my schedule.
Nov 1st: Wooster, OH: Buckeye Book Festival
Nov 14-16: Chicago, IL: Windycon
Scalzi on why you need an agent
October 29th 2008 at 3:05 pm
John Scalzi says smart things about why you need an agent who’s good with foreign sales.
Foreign sales money is good. My own agent almost doubled the money I made from my first novel via foreign rights sales.
Furthermore, it’s always surprise money that you weren’t counting on or expecting, in a large lump.
Blogging from my iPhone
October 29th 2008 at 12:43 pm
I’m testing out how easy it is to blog via my new iPhone blogging app that I just downloaded.
Included: the ability to post pics. Here is one of an Asus EEEPC I spotted at a Target in Toledo.
You can expect to be bothered by more random pictures from my iPhone being posted to the blog […]
Predator Vandermeer
October 27th 2008 at 3:09 pm
Jeff Vandermeer talks about going from writing literary fantasy to a Predator novel.
As it turned out, I had a lot of fun writing Predator: South China Sea. It features a battle-tested Predator against an island full of ex-military men, spies, crooks, and pirates. I managed to reveal a little more about Predators generally, which should […]
Listen to Resistance
October 27th 2008 at 12:30 pm
My short story Resistance is podcast over at Escape Pod, read by Stephen Eley.
David Batista just reviewed Crystal Rain from the POV of a Caribbean reader.
I can see why some readers might have a problem with the characters in Buckell’s world speaking in the manner that they do. For someone not used to the Caribbean’s […]
Mail call
October 25th 2008 at 12:18 pm
In the mail, Dan Simmon’s latest novel, a historical thriller “Drood.” Not sure when I have time to crack the pages, I still have a ton of administrivia to catch up on that was let go by hitting the deadlines for the last book, but it looks interesting.
The Comic Con Magazine photo issue [pdf link] […]
