thoughts and opinions by author s. andrew swann
S Andrew Swann | February 5, 2009
You may have heard that Realms of Fantasy is marked for death right now. However, there is an on-line community attempting to save it. I joined up on Facebook, and here is a message from the people running the effort:
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Subject: Blog to Save Realms!!
Dear Save Realms members,
Thank you for joining us. We’re off to a [...]
S Andrew Swann | October 22, 2008
I’ve mentioned before the preponderance of a certain type of fantasy cover. Now SciFiGuy has compiled the entire cover trend into a helpful educational video. (via Smart Bitches.)
S Andrew Swann | October 21, 2008
Pending confirmation from DAW, the title is going to be either:
Journalists and Dragons: Stories of the Cleveland Portal
or
Journalists, Dragons and Dwarves: Stories of the Cleveland Portal
I think I’m more partial to the second one.
UPDATE: Sheila didn’t like the word “Journalist” so the title will be:
Dragons and Dwarves: Stories of the Cleveland Portal
S Andrew Swann | October 17, 2008
The good news is that DAW’s going to re-issue my two Cleveland Portal novels, Dragons of the Cuyahoga and Dwarves of Whiskey Island in an omnibus edition due out August 2009. W000t!
The bad news, Sheila at DAW told me this yesterday, and she needs me to give her a title for the thing by [...]
S Andrew Swann | September 11, 2008
I just noticed, about 25% of the way into Heretics, that suddenly most of the story is being told from the POV of various female characters. Compare this to Prophets, where the first major female character doesn’t show up until nearly that late and she isn’t a POV character, at least not until a fair [...]
S Andrew Swann | March 20, 2008
A couple of woo-hoos:
First off, Anne at Bantam has given the ok to the outline I submitted for Wolfbreed #2 (titles, I need titles.) which means that I can go ahead with it as soon as I get the next DAW book out of the way. Second off, we are retiring the Valentine’s Night [...]
S Andrew Swann | February 22, 2008
Blogging is taking a back seat to the new novel (30K+ yea me!) And yes, I bumped up the total wordage of Valentine’s Night, the spec novel I’m working on while waiting to hear back from Anne. Two reasons.
I have trouble writing short, and I don’t feel I’m that close to the halfway [...]
S Andrew Swann | February 18, 2008
Well my latest spec project is still rolling along quickly, quickly enough that if Anne continues being overworked at Bantam, I might get the whole thing done before I have to do any editorial revisions on Wolfbreed #1 (titles, I need titles). I started it a week and a half ago, and I have [...]
S Andrew Swann | February 10, 2008
So I finished and turned in the Prophets draft. My next project is Wolfbreed #2 (Still need titles for those) but I can’t really start until Anne at Bantam gets back to me, approving the outline for the next book. Since I didn’t want to jump into the next Apotheosis book and have [...]
S Andrew Swann | January 10, 2008
In a manifestation of what I noted in an earlier post; that if your romantic paranormal fantasy is filed on the romance shelf you get a hunk on the cover, on the fantasy shelf you get a babe on the cover in short:
Fantasy:
Romance:
Now there’s a blog post on the Juno Books blog that’s warning of [...]
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