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.
Religious garbage container
October 30th 2008 at 11:01 am
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] [...]
