thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann
S Andrew Swann | May 10, 2010
It is done! The last volume of the Apotheosis Trilogy, Messiah, has just wrapped up at 103K words. (About 3000 words over my mark, which means the final revised draft is going to be even longer.) We have officially capped off the series I began back in 1993 with Forests of the Night. A series [...]
S Andrew Swann | April 20, 2010
I’m literally in the home stretch of Messiah now, a few thousand words from capping off ten books and seventeen years worth of work. This is where I’m getting all sweaty and nervous. Especially since I’ve spent 250K+ words so far continually upping the ante, I’m hoping that the climax will justify the build up. [...]
S Andrew Swann | April 12, 2010
Just to let fans of audio books know that I have recently signed contracts to have the Apotheosis Trilogy be released on Audible.com. I spent Thursday evening talking to the voice-over artist going over pronunciations. I’m just glad most of my proper nouns have some basis in actual language somewhere. While on the topic of [...]
S Andrew Swann | April 1, 2010
Friday (obscenely early) I fly off to the west cost to Norwescon to find out if Prophets won the Phillip K. Dick Award. The announcement will happen during the awards ceremony at 7pm Pacific. You can see the stiff competition I’m up against here. Wish me luck. Regardless of how things go with the award, [...]
S Andrew Swann | March 15, 2010
The blog’s been falling by the wayside a little while I work on the climax of the Apotheosis Trilogy. It’s a little hard to shift gears for me after spending thousands of words destroying the universe I’ve been building for the past fifteen years. To say all hell’s breaking loose is a bit of an [...]
S Andrew Swann | February 26, 2010
Plot’s one of my strong points as a writer. That’s brought home to me when I see reviews saying that the Apotheosis Trilogy is “tightly plotted.” To my POV that is amusing because it (and its predecessor, Hostile Takeover) are, for me at least, vast sprawling shaggy dog stories that throw in just about everything [...]
S Andrew Swann | February 3, 2010
Today I’ve a guest blog post up @ SciFiGuy.ca wherein I go and mull over my current obsessions on religion and space opera in the Apotheosis Trilogy. Can you write SF about religion? It’s an interesting question because when people tend to think of Religion and SF, it almost always in terms of opposition. It [...]
S Andrew Swann | February 2, 2010
Zoe doesn’t seem too impressed, but it may be because she can’t read. If you want to buy it on-line, but you’re pissed at Amazon’s antics of late, you can buy it here. Or here.
S Andrew Swann | January 18, 2010
In case you hadn’t seen me twitter about this or posting on Facebook, the shortlist for the 2009 Phillip K. Dick awards were announced, and Prophets is on the list! Here’s the press release: Philip K. Dick Awards c/o 153 Deerfield Lane Pleasantville, NY 10570 (914) 769-5545 http://www.philipkdickaward.org January 16, 2010 For Immediate Release 2009 [...]
S Andrew Swann | January 6, 2010
I’m currently working on Messiah, which is not only the last volume of the Apotheosis Trilogy, it is also quite possibly going to be the capstone on my entire Moreau/Hostile Takeover universe. I won’t say it will be the last book in that universe (never say never) but it is likely to be the last [...]
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