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January 22, 2010
Interviews With the Best
We find a brief but informative interview with me on Scifibookshelf.com.
January 21, 2010
Revenge/Bugatti
Oh yeah. Conan's having fun now.
January 20, 2010
Reviews Too Late: The Good Shepherd
The Good Shepherd (2006) was a pet project for Robert de Niro. He'd been trying to make his fictionalized history of the CIA for ten years, but one director after another was, er, "suddenly unavailable." (You might think there might be a story there. I'm sure there wasn't. Ahem. [Looks nervously over shoulder.:]) Anyway, in the end de Niro directed it himself, and it must be said that he did
January 18, 2010
Possibly the Longest Year of Your Life
Did I mention that I've completed the rewrite of Deep State, the sequel to This Is Not a Game? This would be the New Improved Deep State, Now with Editorial Input. I expect the book will appear in a year or so. You'll all have something to look forward to in 2011!As an aside, I have an idea for an alternate title: Revolution Creep. What are y'all's preferences?
Pounding. Throbbing. Throbbing. Pounding.
I was reading a review of This Is Not a Game today that mentioned it was a "heart-pounding" thriller.I didn't actually intend TINAG to be heart-pounding. I was going for suspense rather than terror.But if your heart pounds anyway, that's okay with me. I have no objection at all.
January 13, 2010
Haitian Relief Page
100,000 dead in Haiti. That's 9/11 times 33. That's twice the number of casualties in the London Blitz. Google has set up a disaster relief page for contributions to relief organizations, including UNICEF and CARE. Doctors Without Borders gets mine.On this page you can also donate directly to Haitian hospitals, which would probably be a good thing even if they weren't overwhelmed by a titanic
January 12, 2010
A Question of Import
Something I always wanted to know:Is the "wang dang doodle" the same as the "do wah diddy?"
January 11, 2010
Walter's First Contest
I've never run a contest before, but now that This Is Not a Game has appeared in paperback, I find myself in a generous mood. As in years past, this year we produced a calendar for 2010, in this case featuring photos taken by me in Turkey and in France, including this one of the travertines at Pamukkale. The calendar includes holidays for Canada, the US, and Mexico, and also features notable
The Praise is Endless as the Sea
This Is Not a Game has grown up, into a mass-market paperback! (Yeah, okay, that doesn't make sense, but bear with me.) Probably on that account, there have been a lot of reviews appearing in the last few weeks, so I'm going to take a few moments to point to them with pride.From Hornswoggler:And if you know anything about Williams -- if you've read his sophisticated and witty Drake Maijstral
Hardly Twee At All
The cleverest headline ever.[via Janice Gelb:]
