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Die Ferne Lande: Amazon.de

Another little milestone...

I just noticed that there's now a Germany Amazon page for the German-language edition of The Other Lands. Funny how a small thing like that seems to validate my existence as a writer...

You can see it HERE: Die Ferne Lande.

Small Milestone

As part of my publishing schedule for Book 3 of Acacia I'm supposed to turn in different things at different times. (In return for which my publisher writes me little checks.) In April I was supposed to turn in "half" of the book for my editor to peruse. ("Half" is a loose term, not a readily quantifiable unit of measurement.)

Well, on this last day of April, did I do that?

In a word: Yes.

The next thing I have to do is deliver the finished book this fall. Will I do that?

Of course, but only if e...

Once More About The iPad, Kindle, and Publishing

The New Yorker has a long piece on the subject by Ken Auletta. It's thorough. Like I said - long. But it's a great overview of the whole situation. It's got some startleling bits of info, like this, for example:

"A close associate of Bezos puts it more starkly: "What Amazon really wanted to do was make the price of e-books so low that people would no longer buy hardcover books. Then the next shoe to drop would be to cut publishers out and go right to authors."

Yikes. These guys really do think ...

The Finished Mass Market US Cover...

...of The Other Lands (Acacia, Book 2) looks like this:

Works for me.

Proofreading Isn't Easy, But It's Important...

Here's a case in point.

What do you want with your spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto?

Man With Grass

For no reason other than fatherly pride, I offer a glimpse of a new Maya Calypso Durham drawing: Remember, she's still ten...

Die Fernen Lande

Yeah, another cover! This one is from my wonderful German publisher, Blanvalet. It's for The Other Lands - Die Fernen Lande. Do you like?

What Does Virginia Love?

Ah, the joy of seeing one's student make good. It's not something I've experienced so often that I'm immune to a certain amount of fatherly pride. Case in point, a former student of mine at Fresno State, Elizabeth Schulte, just sent me a new volume of Witness: The Magazine of the Black Mountain Institute that features a story she workshopped in my class a couple years ago.

Now, Elizabeth was always a terrific writer, with a combination of raw talent and a strange, surreal vision that produced ...

True Knowledge?

My Google alert brought me this yesterday: an answer to a terribly important question at True Knowledge.com.

Hugo Nominees 2010

The Finalists have been announced! If you haven't already, take a look at the whole list HERE.

In the best novel category specifically (the one that always interests me the most), here's the lineup:

Boneshaker, Cherie Priest (Tor)The City & The City, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan UK)Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America, Robert Charles Wilson (Tor)Palimpsest, Catherynne M. Valente (Bantam Spectra)Wake, Robert J. Sawyer (Ace; Penguin; Gollancz; Analog)The Windup Girl, Paolo...