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recent reading #8

I've been trying to rest my wrist these last few weeks, and travelling, hence the large number of titles here in a relatively short time.

Lots of blokes, again, and some of them missed the mark completely, for me. Does anyone know any good female thriller writers?
Last Man Standing by David Baldacci (didn’t finish) The Bricklayer by Noah Boyd (didn’t finish) 61 Hours by Lee Child (wonderful) House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (astonishing) Hard Rain by Barry Eisler (great) Jumper and...

dragon "eggs?"

What do these phrases have in common?

“the children alone”
“kachu in line”
“to live alone”
“God to/got to/coach to/attitude end of line”

“X from asthma”
“excavation/exhalation/commissioner/information/eggs question mark”
 They’re how my Dragon voice-recognition program interprets two common phrases (“go to end of line” and “exclamation mark”) despite days and days of training. My Adelaide accent, a mixture of East-coast Australian and British, seems to be throwing it off pretty consistently.

just magic

Finn and I are page nine boys today in the Adelaide Advertiser:



Click on the pix to read the text.  Don't forget to vote for Patricia Wrightson!

more on troubletwisters

Below the obligatory authors' photo (taken by the most excellent Scott Westerfeld) is the full press release.




Garth Nix and Sean Williams team up to create Troubletwisters, sign three separate six figure deals in USA, UK and Australia

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Bestselling novelists Garth Nix (The Keys to the Kingdom series, Old Kingdom Trilogy, The Seventh Tower series) and Sean Williams (Star Wars: Force...

introducing: troubletwisters

PublishersMarketplace.com says it best:

Children's: Fantasy
Bestselling novelists Garth Nix (The Keys to the Kingdom series, Old Kingdom Trilogy, The Seventh Tower series) and Sean Williams' (Star Wars: Force Heretic, The Broken Land Trilogy, The Fixers series) five-book fantasy adventure series TROUBLETWISTERS, the story of twins who have to move to a small coastal town to live with their eccentric grandmother, where they are drawn into an age-old struggle against an ancient entity called The...

apolz

A quick note to apologise to anyone waiting for an e-mail from me, or for something of substace to appear in this particular forum.  For once it's not a case of deadlines, although they have contributed to the problem.  I'm suffering RSI and undergoing treatment for the same, and therefore exploring a variety of options like fancy keyboards and voice recognition software (not "oyster commission software" as the programme originally understood it to be)  to see things right.

But it's not all...

rhymes in rubber

In an alternate universe, I quit writing novels in order pursue my brief career in daikaiju haiku.  The awesome SamuraiFrog is doing just that.  Follow the link and read on in awe!

(My efforts at daihaiku/haikuju are still available in Magic Dirt: The Best of Sean Williams from Ticonderoga.)

disturbed daleks

I'm in a metal mood this week.  Any suggestions?

If the Daleks were ever to record a song, I reckon it'd sound a lot like this:

recent reading #7

This takes me back to the end of October and covers books I read while I was writing two of my own.  One was a kids' book, hence the old favourites listed here, the other intended to be, um, more thrilling than introspective, hence the thrillers.  I am what I eat, at least where books are concerned (were it literally true, I'd currently be made of chocolate, wine and vegetables) so I try to read only things that make me write both on-topic and better.  The classics were mostly read on planes....

charles darwin is in the air (along with love and plagiarism)

A very quick but excited note to say that The Tangled Bank, Chris Lynch's awesome tribute to Charles Darwin's masterwork, is out at last.

It contains my poetry sequence  "The Origin of Haiku by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Renga in the Struggle for Meaning"--a summary of Origin constructed by remixing of Darwin's own words into different sorts of haiku--and many, many excellent riffs on the great man and his great idea.

Fifty contributors!  International line-up! ...