Just wanted to add a post to say I’m still here. Round about COVID I had a bit of a setback that put me off writing for a while. But I think I’ve gotten over it. I’ve written a few short stories to get back into the groove. Now I’m Read more…
So early last week I had an issue with Internet access. It was Sunday, I was taking a break from writing, eating lunch and watching a YouTube video. Then, all of a sudden, the stream dies. My household Internet is gone. I go and check the router, and the broadband Read more…
So I’ve fallen down a bit of a rabbit hole setting up my new site. In particular geeky fashion, once I started digging into the update I found a lot of shiny new toys to play with. To give some perspective: The last time I dug into CSS for this Read more…
I know I’ve been AWOL from the site for a long time. For most of 2020 I was distracted by a special project that I’m still supposed to keep secret about. Unfortunately, Covid has stretched out the timeline a bit, so I am unsure when exactly it will see the Read more…
S. Andrew Swann is giving away ARCs of his novel Teek, which is going on sale on Amazon.com October 15th.
Everyone who’s been paying attention and has mere than a passing affection for freedom of speech knows that Internet culture is getting out of hand. Especially at times, it seems, in the little corner of the net inhabited by Science Fiction fans. (Perennial case being YA Twitter, of which I’ve Read more…
I’ve published a longish gest blog over at Sara Hoyt’s page. It’s about the pathological targeting of young debut authors in the Twitterverse. Please go check it out. By now you probably all know the story of Amélie Wen Zhao and her book Blood Heir. She was a new rising Read more…
The world-wide-web is about to turn thirty. If you, like me, began experiencing the Internet in the dark age of Usenet and 1200 baud dialup, the folks at CERN have set up something a little more way-back than the Wayback machine at the Internet Archive. Yes, before rainbow gradients and Read more…
Now that Marked has come out, I’ve been doing some e-mail interviews with blogs out there on the Interwebs. Today one of my interviews has appeared on Paul Semel’s blog. I get to talk about Marked, zombies, airships, alternate timelines, where it came from, and who I’d cast in the Read more…
So far my Facebook group, Swann’s Lounge, seems to be a success. But it comes at a price. On one of the more popular threads people are listing “obscure” SF/F titles. There’s a lot of good stuff in there. But apparently it’s been long enough for Jack L. Chalker’s Well Read more…