Josh Lanyon's Blog, page 95

Interview at Jessewave's

I know, I keep saying I don't have any time and then I do all these interviews and blogs, but you have to remember these are all done in advance. Not like I sat down last night and did this after my 5K for the day.

Anyway, of note in this interview -- well, it's actually more of a discussion between fellow writer (and my esteemed editor on Strange Fortune) Nikki Kimberling is how interesting Nikki is. I love to talk to this woman; I love the way her mind works. 

And, yes, I did early on memoriz...

The Beat Goes On

The drums, the damned drums. Will they never stop?

So in case you're wondering where I am these days, you will be shocked -- shocked and AMAZED -- to hear that I am writing. YES!  Me.

Seriously, this is hell month for me. To say that I am bad at responding to people right now is to flatter me ridiculously. So far I have done I Spy Something Wicked (the Loose Id Halloween Fling sequel to I Spy Something Bloody), I've done the first draft on The Dickens With Love, the Christmas novellas for Samh...

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A couple of things to report. Just received the very first review on Out of the Blue from Wave at Reviews by Jessewave. I'm always a little nervous about that first review, but Wave has given this World War I adventure-romance the V for Victory, so there's a slight lessening of tension. The thing about this story...it's an odd combination of things because WWI -- WWI poets in particular - is a passion of mine. Years ago I started a novel (and who knows, one day I might actually finish it) which

Stay tuned, still more to come!

I've been putting this post off for a bit, but I keep getting asked, so here's the rundown on remaining projects for this year.

 

Of course August 31st is the Liquid Silver release of the novella Out of the Blue.

Grieving over the death of his lover, British flying ace Bat Bryant accidentally kills the man threatening him with exposure. Unfortunately there’s a witness: the big, rough American they call “Cowboy” – and Cowboy has his own price for silence.

In October we have the sequel to I Spy Someth

Miss Manners Says...

Posting over at Loose Id today on the Importance of Being Earnest. Well, no. Not exactly. It's actually a post on topic of honesty between writing friends. How honest should you be about a friend's work? And, alternatively, how much importance should you place on your friends' opinions?

One thing I didn't touch on was whether you should be honest in a public forum. My personal feeling is, again, it's not a simple yes or no question. If you're known first and foremost as a reviewer, and your frien

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Second bit of news -- belated news because I am apparently ru

A little bit more about that spec fiction thing

For an interview/conversation thingie between myself and the tres charming and clever (and awfully good editor) Nikki Kimberling, click here.

But All the Other Kids Had One!

No, I'm not talking about pirated works, although it does feel that way sometimes -- like everyone is downloading my blood, sweat, and tears -- for free. On one of the lists I'm on some authors shared a link to Astatalk where the pirates were discussing the legitimacy of their acts, and reasoning out why it was absolutely okay.

http://astatalk.com/thread/1174/1/Explanation/

And oddly enough, there is a part of me that sympathizes. I know. Weird. But I'm a big fan and supporter of libraries to thi

The Neverending Story

Except it has ended. At long last I've finished -- really finished -- The White Mountains.

Which is now titled Strange Fortune.

So that's it. My first foray into spec fiction -- and what a learning curve on that one. I should blog about that someday, but not today because I've got a Christmas story due to Samhain any minute.

But I thought you might like to see a sampling of Strange Fortune. I wish I could show you the artwork because it's beautiful. And now I can! Nice, eh? I think I'm going to h

Because of the Brave

So...just got back from an all-too brief time out, and I hear that Because of the Brave has just been released (well, actually, a week ago). This is the short story I did for Aspen Mountain Press with Laura Baumbach and ZA Maxfield.

15% of sales at AMP will be donated to the SLDN to help gay members of our military.

Publisher's Synopsis:

Designated Target by Laura Baumbach, Jumping Off Places by Z.A. Maxfield, and Josh Lanyon's Until We Meet Once More make up this contemporary anthology. Fifteen pe