Archive for October, 2011
The Apocalypse Ocean is -go-
October 17th 2011 at 10:12 pm
With 40 hours on the clock, the crowdsourcing of The Apocalypse Ocean is 100.8% funded. My thanks to everyone who has retweeted, tweeted, blogged, face booked, or otherwise spread the word and backed the project. It’s been amazing to watch this happen, after putting myself out there and saying ‘hey, here’s an idea…’ Exciting. I [...]
I just purchased Lauren Myracle’s Shine. It was the least I could do.
October 17th 2011 at 2:48 pm
The National Book Award is a big. stinking. deal. Seriously. Career-making huge. And Lauren Myracle was just nominated for one. Or was she? The NBA totally screwed the pooch because after apparently nominating her, they were all like “Oh, wait, our bad, someone said it over the telephone and we misheard it, she’s not actually [...]
The Phantom Tollbooth celebrates 50 years
October 17th 2011 at 10:54 am
One of my favorite novels just hit 50 years. the fifty-year birthday of a good children’s book marks a real passage, since it means that the book hasn’t been passed just from parent to child but from parent to child and on to child again. A book that has crossed that three-generation barrier has a [...]
The world’s first commercial spaceport opens
October 17th 2011 at 9:55 am
Virgin Galactic opened the world’s first commercial spaceport today (unrelated, that was via Richard Branson’s blog? He has a blog? Cool). Dudes.
Living in a Star Trek Universe again
October 14th 2011 at 3:47 pm
Cellphones are flip open communicators, and smartphones have slowly started becoming those little scanner things. Now I’m talking to my phone, and it’s not bad. Which is to say, I sold my wife’s old iPhone, which covered the cost of my upgrading to the 4S, and she’s inheriting my iPhone 4. I got the 4S [...]
SF Signal Mind Meld: Most recent recommended book
October 12th 2011 at 2:21 pm
SF Signal asked me, and a bunch of other writers, which recently read book we would recommend to our friends. My answer is there, along with many other interesting suggestions.
[Writing] The business of self pubbing
October 12th 2011 at 1:39 am
Bob Mayer, a midlist writer (by his own admission) who’s been involved in self publishing online, has wise things to note about the sustainability of this approach: I believe that if I don’t change my business plan, my sales will drop off, even with new titles coming out. I think for an indie author like [...]
A disturbance in the force
October 11th 2011 at 2:48 pm
I haven’t written about the passing of Steve Jobs. I think my friends expected something, as I do use a lot of Apple products. I try not to hurry things like this. I’m not the sort to engage in hagiography, but I do think he was a pretty amazing fellow who turned the company around [...]
Icepunk Regency fantasy adventure with airships
October 10th 2011 at 11:16 pm
Which is how I ended up with an Afro-Celtic post-Roman icepunk Regency fantasy adventure with airships, Phoenician spies, and the intelligent descendants of troodons. Kate Elliot’s latest book sounds very cool. …adds to ten foot tall reading list…
The Apocalypse Ocean: 60% of the way there
October 10th 2011 at 10:11 am
The crowd sourcing of the sequel to Crystal Rain, Ragamuffin, and Sly Mongoose is still moving forward. We’re at 60% over at Kickstarter for The Apocalypse Ocean. We’re starting to move into the end game here, with 9 days on the clock! An interview with Suvudu just went live about the project, with Shawn Speakmen [...]
