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November 18, 2009
5 Things
1. I reached 60,000 words on the goblin book today, and most of the rest of it is spinning its armature in my head, like weird cyborg nano-spiders and maybe I'd better just abandon that metaphor right there.
2. It is finally November here, cold and dark and rainy. Secretly, I like this kind of weather.
3. So last year, the entirely cromulent Pat Rothfuss did a huge auction-type thing to benefit Heifer International. This year, he's going to do it again, which I mention because (a.) hey, heads u...
2. It is finally November here, cold and dark and rainy. Secretly, I like this kind of weather.
3. So last year, the entirely cromulent Pat Rothfuss did a huge auction-type thing to benefit Heifer International. This year, he's going to do it again, which I mention because (a.) hey, heads u...
November 13, 2009
Announcement
Happy Friday the Thirteenth!
I have an announcement: my next book (working title, The Goblin Emperor) will be published by a new publisher under a different name.
As You Know, O Internet-Bob, my sales with Ace were disappointing, which resulted in Ace deciding they did not want to publish me any longer. It also resulted in those disappointing sales figures being irretrievably associated with my name in the computers of the big chain book-buyers. And that, in turn, means that those big chain boo...
I have an announcement: my next book (working title, The Goblin Emperor) will be published by a new publisher under a different name.
As You Know, O Internet-Bob, my sales with Ace were disappointing, which resulted in Ace deciding they did not want to publish me any longer. It also resulted in those disappointing sales figures being irretrievably associated with my name in the computers of the big chain book-buyers. And that, in turn, means that those big chain boo...
November 7, 2009
Storytellers Unplugged for November
Another Q&A session.
One of the questions is a spoiler for the end of Corambis, so I'm going to stick it behind a cut-tag.
Q:Why did you decide to have Felix and Mildmay live in a lighthouse? Lighthouses are quite famous for stairs, and Mildmay is quite famous for his trouble with stairs.
A: Actually, the lighthouse of Grimglass is part of the Warden's castle, so there's no reason Felix's post as lighthouse-keeper would mean that Mildmay has to live at the top of the tower. I don't know exactly ...
One of the questions is a spoiler for the end of Corambis, so I'm going to stick it behind a cut-tag.
Q:Why did you decide to have Felix and Mildmay live in a lighthouse? Lighthouses are quite famous for stairs, and Mildmay is quite famous for his trouble with stairs.
A: Actually, the lighthouse of Grimglass is part of the Warden's castle, so there's no reason Felix's post as lighthouse-keeper would mean that Mildmay has to live at the top of the tower. I don't know exactly ...
October 29, 2009
Happy birthday, rachelmanija!
Happy birthday,
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rachelmanija
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rachelmanija
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October 26, 2009
So, hypothetically speaking . . .
I have a head cold, which I am blaming for the following weirdness.
mirrorthaw
put in Peter Gabriel's greatest hits album, Hit, this evening, and as I always do when I hear it, I thought, "Man, 'Solsbury Hill' so has a story in it." But this time, the other songs ganged up and gave me one.* It's a YA sf semi-dystopian thriller/romance/bildungsroman (reluctant psychics! teenage soldiers! true love!), and my question to you is:
View Poll: Blame the head cold
Of course, I reserve the right to ignor...
mirrorthaw
put in Peter Gabriel's greatest hits album, Hit, this evening, and as I always do when I hear it, I thought, "Man, 'Solsbury Hill' so has a story in it." But this time, the other songs ganged up and gave me one.* It's a YA sf semi-dystopian thriller/romance/bildungsroman (reluctant psychics! teenage soldiers! true love!), and my question to you is:View Poll: Blame the head cold
Of course, I reserve the right to ignor...
October 23, 2009
a pause while I bask in the feeling of accomplishment
56,400 words, and aside from all the people named ? and the matter of [trade agreement:], that's the first half of The Goblin Emperor completed, with Chekhov's gun collection hanging over the mantel where it belongs.
That's the good news.
The even better news is that I know what happens in the second half of the book.
The word I am looking for here is w00t!
That's the good news.
The even better news is that I know what happens in the second half of the book.
The word I am looking for here is w00t!
October 22, 2009
What do you think I voted for at Omaha Beach?
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Really, I don't have anything to add.
Really, I don't have anything to add.
October 21, 2009
Very happy 80th birthday wishes to Ursula K. Le Guin, who...
Very happy 80th birthday wishes to Ursula K. Le Guin, whom I desperately want to be when I grow up. (Still not king.) Her books were a deeply formative influence (science fiction! AND feminism! AND non-white protagonists! AND philosophical rigor! AND lovely careful thinking about what it means to be a human being! AND breathtaking prose! AND!, in other words, instead of OR.), and her nonfiction essays were one of the first places where I saw that it was okay to be serious about science fictio...
October 20, 2009
Visual aids: Mildmay the Fox
matociquala
very kindly distracted me from my book by sending me this link, to which I said, "Holy shit that's amazing." And then said, "You know, this Ivan Zubkevich, he looks a lot like Mildmay." Check out that upper body musculature.So, you know, if you're trying to visualize Mildmay, here's a good starter. Also, seriously? Holy shit that's amazing.
October 18, 2009
Geek.Kon.09
I will be at Geek.Kon.09 next weekend (October 23-25). I'm doing three panels:
Know What? • Fri. 23 • 5 PM • Reflection E
Recent research in neuropsychology suggests that we're aware of far less than the tip of the iceberg about what's going on in our brains. Apparently decisions are made by subterranean processes milliseconds before they're handed to our conscious minds, which then conceitedly think that they've come up with them using free will. Should be some good story ideas in here. Sugges...
Know What? • Fri. 23 • 5 PM • Reflection E
Recent research in neuropsychology suggests that we're aware of far less than the tip of the iceberg about what's going on in our brains. Apparently decisions are made by subterranean processes milliseconds before they're handed to our conscious minds, which then conceitedly think that they've come up with them using free will. Should be some good story ideas in here. Sugges...
