I’m fully prepared to acknowledge that I’m way, way late to this party, so a lot of this is basically closing the barn door after the horse has gotten out (and won the Kentucky Derby and had grandkids and settled down to a nice relaxing retirement on a farm somewhere. That’s about how late we’re […]

I’ve only now had the chance to post my report on Days Three and Four of GenCon…long drives and short sleep will do that to you, I find. But better late than never, so here goes: Saturday brought a panel on the small press, on which I presented–and we had a good turnout, particularly considering […]

I’ve been running around so much I haven’t had time to post before now, but I’m at least keeping my promise to give you an update at some point. We got here on Wednesday night (I suggest getting a four day pass if you can afford the time and cost, as there is a lot […]

I’m off to GenCon for the next week or so–I’ll try to post an update while I’m there, but if you’re in the area make sure to stop by the small press panel, where my editor and I will be (I’m not on this panel, but will definitely be in attendance, so please look me […]

Fantasy authors are deeply afraid of cliches. Or, more accurately, fantasy authors are deeply conflicted about them, either incapable of not using them or desperate not to use anything like them. Take a quick Google trip around the Internet and you’ll find any number of cliches to avoid like the plague: 1. Any combination of […]

Just a quick announcement that our show Upon Further Review just interviewed James Patrick Kelly, Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction author, in Episode 61. Jim is not only an extraordinarily important figure in speculative fiction, he’s also an extremely generous one, and a very interesting listen to boot. You can find his site […]

So David Anthony Durham just announced that his Acacia series has been optioned to Relativity Media, a major production company (Hellboy II, Hancock, Wanted, and a bunch of others)–which gets it one step closer to movie material. Now tons of books get optioned without ever actually making it to the silver screen, but still…that’s pretty […]

I had originally intended to write this entry about The Dark Knight, which I just saw this evening, until…well, until I didn’t see it, for a host of unimportant reasons involving a six month old. 🙂 We’re going to check it out next week instead. But while moping around the Internet (and really, what better […]

After having a day or so to recover from Readercon (surprising how tired you can get walking from air-conditioned room to air-conditioned room, but three days of it’ll take something out of you!), I thought I’d post a few of my thoughts about the event, for whatever they’re worth–and I’d love to hear other people’s […]

Last night I had a chance to listen to a recording of a panel from ConFusion earlier this year (yes, I’m a bit behind in my listening material) on using the Internet as a marketing tool for writers. It doesn’t sound like scintillating stuff, but a lot of it was pretty interesting–especially when I learned […]