Gunnerkrigg Court: If you took Harry Potter, tossed it a blender with some of Girl Genius and some Neil Gaiman, you’d end up with something in the same genre as this. The story goes from cute, to creepy to heartwarming in the space of a couple of panels. And, if Read more…
I melded my mind on the SF Signal blog again. My contribution re: underrated fantasy series: Ok, I’m going to cheat a little here, because there was once a time when if you were talking a fantasy series, you were not talking “novels.” From the pulps up through the 1970s, Read more…
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 promising start with over 300 members in just five days. Now it’s time to up the ante. In order to gather enough support to save our beloved mag, we have to get the word out in a big way. That means blogging. (more…)
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.)
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: Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…