Dan Abnett's Blog, page 18

Clickety-Clack! (the sound of my fingers typing faster than Jessica Fletcher's)

Up to my Nova Corps helmet chin-strap with some Marvel scripting right now, so I'll be back with another chunk of "Dear Ryan" writing tips as soon as (though here's one to be going on with: writing for a living trumps writing about writing for a living).

In the meantime, a short but very sweet review here.

Dear Ryan

I got this letter by email the other day. As you can imagine, I get a lot of mail, most of it through this site. A lot of it is positive feedback for my books and comics, which I'm grateful to receive. I try to respond to everybody personally, even if it's just a casual thank you.

Sometimes, people write to take me to task over something and generally tell me how wrong I am, or how bad, or how mistaken, or simply how crap. This is pretty much par for the course in this business we call Write, ...

Black Library Love

Here's how it's looking, official and timetabled. I believe there are still, like, two tickets left.

Run. RUN.

No Blog Like Home(page)

Babel Clash was a nice place to visit for a fortnight. The weather was great, and the company very affable, and the nightlife - man oh man! Between us Graham McNeill and I turned our stay as guest bloggers on the Borders US SF and F site into a record breaker - they got more traffic than during any previous guest tenure. So if you're joining me here because you met me there, howdy! Let's see what we can get nattering about.

Two cultural things for today. First, I see that Steve Jobs is finall...

First look: Embedded

To celebrate the first day of February or whatever else the funt you want to celebrate, Angry Robot has unveiled the cover art to my 2010 release, the combat SF novel Embedded. The art is by the fethtastically talented Larry Rostant. No further words are necessary. Just go look here.

Mmmh! A very nice review...

... right here!

Noteworthy Alignments Get On My Wick, Says Author

So, coincidences. It's no biggie, really, it's just that I'm being stalked by coincidences.

I usually take a coincidence as a good thing, a sign that the universe is working the way it's supposed to be, but just in the last few weeks, man, has my life been Noteworthy-alignment-of-two-or-more-events-or-circumstances-without-obvious-causal-connection Central.

It's not even anything in particular, just an accumulation. the details would bore you (if you really must know, the latest one that made ...

And the winner is...

.. me! Or it could be. My fate is your hands. Here's how it works. The fabulous comic website The Outhouse (www.theouthousers.com) is holding their first annual awards, and the winners are decided by a public vote. Andy and I have been nominated in two categories: Best Creative Team and Best Mainstream Ongoing (for Guardians of the Galaxy). So what you do is you go along to the website, register as an Outhouser (a free and painless process) and cast your vote. Then we finish on a big musical ...

Oh, let's just do another blog!

Yes, let's! I've got a drum kit, your dad's got a barn... we can put the show on right here!

Graham and I are still ruling the roost over at Borders Babel Clash, which is strengthening my blogging muscles and giving me momentum. So I'm back.

My confession about the Imperial Fists got you all over-excited, and condemned the blog forever to a very off-colour running gag. Which, BigWill and Matthew, I will make no effort to encourage ("Up the Emperor!").

Flekkzo - thanks for the permission to keep...

Babel Clash 2: Electric Boogaloo

Just thought I'd re-remind all of you that Im guest blogger over at the BORDERS sci-fi blog Babel Clash (link in the post below). It's going well, and thanks to those of you who have already turned up to hurl vegetables at the stocks. In fact, I really shouldn't draw attention to the fact that I've posted there two days in a row AND answered questions, because it will make painfully clear what a laggard I am here. I will do better. I will. It's one of my New Year Resolutions.

To prove my point...