Archive for April, 2009
Blurbs
April 29th 2009 at 3:39 pm
Am trying, on top of all the freelance and fiction work and juggling twins, to finish a book for a potential blurb (if I likes) yesterday so I can pass it on.
I’ve been hit or miss on providing blurbs lately as editors/writers keep sending me books at the worst time (like in November, or while [...]
Ofblog offers praise for Tides
April 27th 2009 at 2:15 pm
My first somewhat official review of Tides From the New Worlds comes from Ofblog who writes:
Buckell’s strengths as a novelist are even more suited to the short story form, as he quickly develops his characters and setting and the plot moves at an even brisker pace in this format. Uniformly strong stories help quite a [...]
Check out Filter House, recent Tiptree winner!
April 27th 2009 at 2:08 pm
I blurbed Nisi Shawl’s collection last year, about which I said “Nisi Shawl uses the tools of future and fable, usually used to explore the other, the future, and the mysterious, to magically reveal what and who we all are here and today.”
You can see the collection here.
It just won the Tiptree, so apparently I’m [...]
[Twins] Control and Variable
April 21st 2009 at 4:01 pm
Right after the twins came home we were having to measure their temperatures every three hours to make sure they were holding, but it got nice and warm out, and our house heated up enough we weren’t sure if they were overbundled.
So one twin got swaddled in a single blanket and the other in other [...]
TOC website/community discussion
April 19th 2009 at 6:18 pm
TOC ‘09 — “Where Do You Go with 40,000 Readers? A Study in Online Community Building” — Ron Hogan (Beatrice.com), John Scalzi (Scalzi Consulting), Patrick Nielsen Hayden (Tor Books), Tobias Buckell
At TOC ‘09 I was part of a panel about readership and community building with John Scalzi and Patrick Nielsen Hayden, which was hosted by [...]
A NYT bestseller’s royalty statement
April 17th 2009 at 1:25 pm
Author Lynne Viehl shows you the royalty statement of a NYT bestselling book:
We’ve all been told a lot of myths about what it takes to reach the top twenty list of the NYT BSL. What I was told: you have to have an initial print run of 100-150K, you have to go to all the [...]
Freelancer’s survival guide
April 16th 2009 at 2:47 pm
Kristine Kathryn Rusch is posting a series of articles about freelancing.
Potential authors might find it interesting…
Tides From The New Worlds
April 15th 2009 at 3:32 pm
My short story collection, Tides From The New Worlds, via Wyrm Publishing, has been printed. Neil Clarke’s son Eamonn models the hardcover over at his livejournal.
So if you pre-ordered a copy, they’re going to be shipped very shortly. If you haven’t, the link is above
Introducing…
April 11th 2009 at 6:00 am
Calliope Ann Buckell and Thalia Lyn Buckell, just before 7AM this morning, 5 pounds 8 ounces and 5 pounds 6 respectively. Mom and daughters are hale and hearty and the doctor said it was an easy and textbook delivery.
edit: you can see the better photo of above here at twitpic, as iBlogger cropped out Thalia [...]
Favorite quotes
April 7th 2009 at 12:50 pm
I have a small list of quotes I keep around for my eye to fall on often. Today I just added a new one:
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain… and most fools do. ~ Dale Carnegie
There’s a class of people who hate everything, and who seek to destroy any idea you have. They don’t [...]
