Archive for September, 2010
Copies of Limited Editions of Executioness selling briskly
September 28th 2010 at 11:33 am
According to Subterranean Press: The limited edition of Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Alchemist sold out in less than 24 hours, though you may still order the trade hardcover. The limited edition of Tobias S. Buckell’s equally excellent The Executioness is also selling briskly, and not expected to last forever, so you may want to get your [...]
Print editions of the Executioness coming January from Subterranean Press
September 27th 2010 at 11:03 am
Want to see a beautiful piece of art? Here is the raw art of the upcoming cover, by J.K. Drummond, for the print edition of The Executioness, a novella I wrote that was previously only available via Audible.com (and only available via Audible until late January, which is when the two novellas, The Alchemist and [...]
Scrivener for Windows coming soon
September 22nd 2010 at 5:18 pm
Scrivener is my most important piece of software. It’s been Mac-only now for the past number of years (actually, it’s responsible for a *lot* of author friends switching platforms to get their hands on it), and now they’re getting ready to launch the Windows version. As I said to someone via email today, I’m glad [...]
Videoblog: How do you do that?
September 17th 2010 at 2:49 pm
Today’s videoblog answers the question “how do you do that videoblogging?” And you get two Buckells for the price of one in this videoblog…
Videoblog: Tools of the trade
September 16th 2010 at 12:31 pm
I answer twitter user JamieTR’s question about writing tools in this videoblog:
What’s your favorite creative tool?
September 15th 2010 at 11:05 am
My favorite writing tool is a piece of software called Scrivener, which will be having a major new release sometime late next month, which I can’t wait for. But for the nitty gritty of outlining and idea creation and while brainstorming, I still use OmniOutliner, a piece of software I started using back in 2002 [...]
Machines being taught to deceive people. Like right now
September 10th 2010 at 2:09 am
So apparently some clever researchers are teaching machines how to fool people. Yeah, because that’s not going to come back and bite us all in the ass. Are you guys just not reading any SF or watching many movies these days? We do not need to be teaching Skynet how to fucking pull one over [...]
Videoblog: Coming up with characters
September 9th 2010 at 3:00 pm
I answer Alex J. Kane’s questions about how I write characters:
Videoblog: How do I outline novels?
September 8th 2010 at 5:13 pm
For my most recent videoblog, I answered twitter user Jamietr, who asked, how do I outline novels?
