Hit 40,000 words on Wolfbreed yesterday. I have noticed one thing, writing this fast, I’ve managed to overshoot some creative decisions. I’ve decided that I want to change the setting. I have a more or less generic fantasy background right now, but a good ways in it came to me Read more…
Well, yesterday I hit 20,000 words on Wolfbreed, my extracurricular novel twice removed. I ran the first 9000 words or so past the Hamsters this weekend, and while there’s stuff that needs work I did get some affirmation that it doesn’t suck. This is good, as when I tap into Read more…
Quick little factoid— You can use Feedburner to analyze traffic stats, and one juicy tidbit they provide is the search phrase for people who actually Googled up this site. Some make sense, but some of the others. . . “Definition Pink World” “define am in pink” “in what sense science Read more…
You might notice a brand new counter in the sidebar. No, I didn’t change the title of something, I just had the experience (last Friday in fact) of my muse coming round, slapping me on the back of the head and screaming in my ear; “NO! You’re going to write Read more…
The Union of Concerned Scientists has published a guide that serves as a good counterpoint to an earlier post of mine about the ugly interaction between politics and science. The only problem is that the examples are U.S.-centric and post-2001 so it’s a little lopsided (i.e. the current American bureaucracy Read more…
Well things have gone completely insane at the day job, rendering the posting here rather sparse. My department has lost two employees (really three, but the one was essentially a volunteer), and guess who’s taking up the slack? So the writing and the blog have suffered (60-70 hour weeks will Read more…
Yay! I just got my author copies of Blood & Rust: Two Novels of the Cleveland Undead, DAW’s omnibus reprint of Raven and The Flesh, the Blood, and the Fire, my two vampire novels. (Actually I got 16 of 40 copies, at 640 pages the book is kind of fat Read more…
Been too busy for the Blog lately, so we’re going the cheap and easy route with a cute cat picture. This is Mu.
I picked up this meme, it might be a little stale, but it is a cool idea: This is a list of the 50 “most significant” science fiction/fantasy novels, 1953-2002, according to the Science Fiction Book Club. Bold the ones you’ve read, strike-out the ones you hated, italicize those you Read more…
Thanks to the SF Signal Blog, over the past few weeks I’ve had the chance to read a couple of articles about the politics of science fiction. It’s interesting to compare the thoughts of Eric S. Raymond and David Brin about the political subtext of Science Fiction in general, as Read more…