Kameron Hurley's Blog, page 30
February 2, 2014
Surprise! I Have No Idea Your Book is Coming Out
I was listening to a podcast about the Hugos yesterday, and then this morning I read a post from another authorabout how, you know, as an author – especially fifteen+ years ago – you weren’t expected to do a lot of self-promotion. In fact, one of the reasons I got into this, too, was because it was a profession that would let me sit in a little room and write by myself. As an introvert, this was about the most perfect profession I could imagine.I didn’t have to hang out with people. I could j...
January 31, 2014
Ain’t No Party Like a Novel Party
A lot of what people see of the writing life is actually the part that has nothing to do with writing actual novels. What you see are the blog posts, the tweets, the convention appearances, the book signing, the G+ hangout, the author D&D, the podcast, the workshop… all the stuff we do *around* the writing to draw *attention* to work which has already been written.
I’ve spent the last three weeks living out loud, with twenty-something guest posts, a manic Twitter pace, giveaways, a convention,...
January 30, 2014
God’s War Wicked Winter Carnival: WE SURVIVED!
With today’s post on tragedy as comfort fiction over at Charlie Stross’s place, so ends my three-week blog tour for the paperback release of GOD’S WAR in the UK (hint: buy one. Buy another for a friend).
There was a lot of incredible news this week that I’ve been sitting on for a bit. The biggest being the 2-book deal with Angry Robot books for a new epic fantasy series, starting with THE MIRROR EMPIRE, due out this September. This means that… yes, my friends, we’ll be doing this all over agai...
January 28, 2014
THE MIRROR EMPIRE Announcement & Convention Schedule
Very pleased to announce that the first two books in my next series have been picked up by Angry Robot Books.
THE MIRROR EMPIRE is scheduled for September 2014, with the sequel tentatively slotted for September 2015. If ya’ll want the third one, I suggest buying the hell out of the first two!
Yes, my friends, that’s THIS September, which, as you may imagine, has incited a flurry of activity around these parts, as I’d assumed that – best case – I wasn’t going to have a book out until 2015 (publi...
January 24, 2014
God’s War Wicked Winter Carnival: Week 2 Wrap-up
In celebration of my first mass market paperback release, ever, in the UK(forGOD’S WAR!) I’ve been running all around the web sharing nutty posts on worldbuilding, persistence, desire, and SF/F.
Folks have been incredibly kind in hosting. Thanks to all of you.
For those looking forward to more – we have one week of posts left! For those sick of me – we have one week of posts left!
Here’s what’s upcoming, as well as whatyou might have missed:
WEEK THREE (FINAL WEEK!!!)
There will be some NEWS this...
When to Persist… and When to Quit
My recent guest post on persistence in the writing game at Chuck Wendig’s place was actually the result of the confluence of a few things. The night before I headed out to ConFusion last weekend, a regional convention in Detroit, I read Seth Godin’s The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and when to stick).
Anyone who’s followed my blog – in particular longtime readers who’ve been around since those first days back in 2004 – knows I’ve been writing a long time, and suffered a lo...
January 16, 2014
God’s War UK Release Day: What’s Happening
Today’s my first mass market paperback release, ever. It’s in the UK, and it’s for my first novel, GOD’S WAR. Yeah, it launched in May of last year (which is why it’s eligible for UK awards) but it happened during a time when I was caught up with a lot of other publishing concerns back here in the States. So this month I’m happy to launch the book properly.
I’ve had some posts up with various folks around the web this week who were kind enough to host, with more to come in the next two weeks....
January 15, 2014
ConFusion Schedule: Jan 17-19th
I’ll be at ConFusion this year in Detroit (LEGENDARY ConFusion, I’m told) along with a number of other extraordinary folks. As this looks like it may be my only con this year (barring News), I hope to see a bunch of folks there.
Note to those trying to contact me at ConFusion: Just @reply me on Twitter. Ya’ll know I’m an addict. In addition to my phone, I’ll also be bringing my laptop to catch up on just a *tad* bit of work at the con (JUST A TAD. Trying hard to get caught up this week so I ca...
January 14, 2014
The Body Project: Free God’s War Novelette
Del Rey UK has posted Part One of Two of “The Body Project”, a new Nyx & co. novelette, on their blog. Part Two will go live on Thursday, the 16th – which is also pub day for the mass market paperback version of God’s War in the UK.
“The Body Project” was written specifically for folks who haven’t read God’s War before, and is set during the 7-year gap between chapters four and five of God’s War, when Nyx and Rhys have been working together just a few weeks. If you have friends who haven’t pic...
Women and Gentlemen: Unmasking the Sobering Realities of Hyper-Masculine Characters
This post was originally hosted at Kari Sperring’s place. For those who find the format a little awkward to read, or who are having issues with LJ, I’ve reprinted it here:
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In the movie The Jewel of the Nile, sequel to Romancing the Stone, romance author Joan Wilder has written herself into a corner. Pirates have boarded the ship containing her heroine and the heroine’s lover. First, Wilder writes that the hero sacrifices himself to the pirates, allowing the heroine to get away in a...
