Walter Jon Williams's Blog, page 27

Room With A View

Hard to believe it’s been over forty years since I last enjoyed this view. I kinda missed it.

Shaping Up

Edward Willett and Shadowpaw Press, with help from Kickstarter, has released a perfectly enormous anthology that is well worth your time. The anthology features authors who have been interviewed on the Worldshapers podcast. Names include Griffin Barber, James Morrow, Jane Yolen, Cory Doctorow, F. Paul Wilson, and yours truly. Most stories are original. (Mine, “Send Them Flowers,” is not.)

Shapers of Worlds is available in electronic formats, paperback, and hardback. If you want to...

Reading Choices

The International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts is having a virtual convention this weekend. I’m scheduled to do a reading on Sunday at 2pm, but the format restricts me to 15 minutes, or about 10 printed pages.

I tend to write long, and I have no 15-minute excerpts lying around. Some of you are very familiar with my oeuvre, and might know better than I what to read. Any ideas?

MBA in a Box

You can be the greatest writer in the world, but even if you are, you have to pay at least a little attention to the business side of publishing. A plan becomes necessary. Based on granular real-world experience, I have established a simple scheme for vertical intellectual property management. I have expedited distributed options, contracted strategic foundations, and generated international margin advisors. For every step in the publishing sphere I have implemented mission-critical charts,...

Ciao!

Mondadori has brought out an Italian translation of my novel Aristoi.

Aristoi is challenging for any translator/editor/publisher, because of my unconventional formatting of the text. I applaud Mondadori for making the effort.

What’s On the Slab

It’s getting cold at night, so Kathy decided it was time to have a roast beast. Behold a boneless leg of lamb, slathered in olive oil, rosemary, and garlic, and cooked sous vide for eight hours, after which it was flung on the grill to catch fire. (It did catch fire too, with all that olive oil. The fire only improved it.)

Kathy served up the broccoli in ginger-garlic-soy sauce, and I added smashed potatoes with onions, pepper flakes, and lime zest. The potatoes were left over from R...

Adventurous

A few days ago Imperium Restored achieved a #1 on Amazon in the category of Women’s Adventure Fiction. I’m not sure what that category actually means— I’m reasonably certain that Men’s Adventure features firearms being discharged in all odd-numbered chapters, but Women’s Adventure as a category seems far more slippery.

So I checked it out.

As of today, the #1 book in Women’s Adventure Fiction is described as a “Billionaire Boss Romance,” in which the Billionaire Boss is presumably a gorg...

Mountainous Good Time

I’ve been off to the New Mexico mountains for the last week, in Angel Fire, hosting the Rio Hondo writers’ workshop, delayed by COVID for over two years. The workshop took place in mountain cabins at nearly 8000 feet, and featured food, drink, and serious discussions of literature— all the things that writers consider part of the good life.

Attending were (L to R), Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Carrie Vaughn, meself, Alex Jablakow, Paolo Bacigalupi, Diana Rowland, John Kessel, C.C. Finlay, Rick ...

#1!

Counting Down the Hours . . .

Imperium Restored, a Novel of the Praxis, will be released September 20, 2022.

Hey! That’s tomorrow!

Find it wherever fine books are sold!