Jay Kristoff's Blog, page 14

Finger nubs

. The A-Bomb informed me it’s been over a month since I posted anything on this blog. Even though lots of exciting stuff has been happening and I should have been posting every week. But I swear (best Han Solo voice) it’s not my fault. Here’s why: So, a month or so ago, my awesome [...]

Bubblegum and Superman

. So Orson Scott Card, renowned science fiction author, Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy and Locus award winner and all-round homophobic douche has been hired by DC to pen a new Superman anthology. A few minutes trawling Google under the parameters “Orson Scott Card” and “Superman” will present you with a flurry of diatribes, threats by [...]

Praying for Rain

. Real quick update today, folks. I’m currently spanking the scantily clad buttocks of my KINSLAYER edits, and will hopefully be handing them over to The Powers™ next week. The book is feeling kinda ‘rad’ as we used to say in the 80s (yes, I’m old, shut up) – it’s undergone a Banner-esque transformation over [...]

To Name a Thing

News! News, I say! It’s pretty much nine months until Book 2 of the Lotus War hits bookshelves, which seems all portentous and shit. I read a book I found at a bus shelter once that said daddies and mummies who love each other very much can make a baby in that time, but that [...]

To the libraryyyy!

. Home again, home again, jiggety-jig. Gooooood evening, JF. Alright, holidays are over and we’re all back at work being miserable bastards, wishing we’d spent those two weeks off on something meaningful like learning Cantonese instead of playing Arkham Horror and Netrunner and eating shit-tonnes of dead cow. I blame the media, personally. And who/whatever [...]

Ho, Ho… something

. This might possibly be the last post of the year I Officially Became a Published Author, and if the notion of being able to walk into a bookstore and buy my fevered monkey-scat scrawlings on genuine official paper still surprises you, know that I’m standing right there next to you. Looming, if you will. [...]

After the Prom

. I’m still in the edit cave on Stormdancer 2 atm, but it’s been weeks since I posted anything bloggish, and up with this slackness I will not put. So. I’m going to tell you a secret today, my friends, which for some reason is often spoken about in author circles but seldom mentioned publicly. [...]

So this is kinda awesome

. My editor’s notes are back on Book 2, and I have officially descended into the edit cave, where there is no sunlight, no phone, no interwebs. However, I’ve spelunked my way back up to the surface (can you spelunk upwards?) and trekked across the frozen wastes to bring you this little piece of awesome. [...]

Strength?

. So, pretty exciting news – I’ve been asked to speak at a TEDx event in December. It’s a big deal and a big honor and will probably be the most terrifying presentation of my life. I’ll be speaking about writing strong characters, specifically, male authors writing strong female characters. Which is cool. And scary. [...]

The perils of social media

. It’s often said that any published author nowadays has two fulltime jobs – the job where you write stories, and the job where you sell them. Many of us have a third job too – one which does marvellous things like “keep the lights on in our houses” and “lets us eat something other [...]