My guest blog for Reader’s Entertainment
Is now live! You can see it here: Fictionally Factual I’ll post an expanded version of it here in a couple of days.
Interviews
This was a busy week. Three interviews, a press release, and a couple of podcasts. The podcasts are about a month away from airing, but one of the interviews is now live and the press release is out. Here’s the press release from Reader’s Entertainment: SPARK It’s pretty cool to see your book cover on the…Read More
Book Review: The Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart
The Paradox Hotel is a love story set 50 years from now. The love story part is touching at times, the rest, not so much. The basic premise is that time travel has become a reality, but it’s limited to the US government and the very, very wealthy. Believable so far. I mean, it’s very…Read More
Moving Pieces
Moving pieces It’s a busy time for me. I’m doing revisions to Fire, blogging, working, and “building my platform.” That’s a phrase that didn’t exist twenty years ago unless you were talking about something to stand on. Now, publishers and agents are interested in it almost before they care about your work. If you’ve got…Read More
Book Review: Surviving Survival by Laurence Gonzalez
Several years ago, I read Gonzalez’ Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why. I thought it had so much to say that I even used it as a case study in seminars. In that book, Gonzalez examines why, in very similar circumstances – sometimes identical – some people make it through, and some people don’t. From…Read More
Submitted!
Late last night, I clicked “send” on the manuscript for Book 2 in the SPARK series: Fire. It’s now in the publisher’s inbox waiting to be assigned to one of the two developmental editors Inklings has hired recently. I have mixed feelings about it. I was so confident about the first book, that I was…Read More
Book Review: Implied Spaces by Walter Jon Williams
It’s the far distant future. Unfortunately, it takes a while to figure that out. Williams plunges you mid-adventure into the life of Astride, a scholar cum adventurer, whose alleged goal is to study the ecology of implied spaces. What’s an implied space? They are often unintentional. The legs of a chair create an implied space…Read More
Promise the story you are going to end
I recently finished Orson Scott Card’s Mithermage series – good stuff. At the back of Book 2, The Gate Thief, he writes an afterward (always read the epilogues and afterwards) explaining why the book was six months late. It wasn’t that he was busy binging Battlestar Gallactica, it was that he got the structure of…Read More
Final Meet the Pod: DreadBot and Myranda
DreadBot – Dread to her Pod companions – was born and grew to a teenager in SCAZ. I can’t say “raised” because there was very little thought given to her beyond keeping her clean and fed. She was loved, but after watching enough TV, realized that there might be a better world available to her….Read More
Book Review: The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell
Not my usual fare for this blog as it’s historical non-fiction, but this book made me reexamine my thinking vis-à-vis our conduct of the air war in Europe and Japan during WWII. Between The War to End all Wars (WWI) and our second global conflagration, a group of pilots tried to reimagine war. The wholesale…Read More