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Nice News

The short novel I have coming out in late May got a small but positive review in Publishers Weekly.

This is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick or a flash flood of melted glacial water...

I suppose this means I buy coffee at the next Wyrdsmiths meeting...

New Eruption in Iceland

It turns out the volcano was not winding down. A new eruption began yesterday, this time under the glacier.

Water from the melted glacier flowing across Highway One, the ring road that goes around Iceland.

What Is Science Fiction Good For?

"Viewed in this light, the science fiction genre appears as neither anomalous nor marginal, but rather as prototypical of imaginative literature, generally. From this perspective, all imaginative literature, including even novels of contemporary realism . . . , can be seen to function, like science fiction, as a kind of thought-experiment in the sense of projecting a world rather than merely modeling a received one. To parody the Russian Formalist critic Viktor Shklovsky, science fiction...

April 10 Photo of Volcano

The eruption appears to be winding down. A pity.

Smart Things

Mike Shatzkin on the coming disruption in publishing due to the changing dynamics of the market and ebooks.

Charlie Stross's misconceptions of publishing series continues with covers, and clean up.

Dean Wesley Smith on the pluses and minuses of the traditional agent/author relationship. I don't entirely agree with Dean about agents because I think that what is true for Dean is not the same as what is true for me which is not the same as what is true for someone who's just trying to break in now...

Friday Cat Blogging

Why am I always in the giant cat bed?
That's a pretty personal question, don't you think?



Oh look, a camera. Joy.



Hold still, I eat your face.



Can you help me untie my legs?

National Geographic Photo of Yesterday

I have gone crazy posting photographs. One picture is worth a thousand words, and I need to produce a thousand words a day to finish a novel. Does this mean that 50 photographs equals a short novel?

Mark Your Calendar (aka Shameless Self-Promotion)

Come say good-bye (and merry meet again) to Garnet Lacey!

On Saturday, May 8, 2010, in my persona as Tate Hallaway, I will be signing HONEYMOON OF THE DEAD, the last in the Garnet Lacey series, at Uncle Hugo's in Minneapolis starting at 1:00 pm. The Uncles are located at 2864 Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55407. You can call for directions or more information (612) 824-6347. If you are not able to attend, but would still like a signed copy of the book, you can find information on how to mail...

Facing the Blank Page

When I began writing, I felt I could not write unless there was inspiration, a sudden descent of the muse or whatever. In more recent years, I feel I can push along without the muse. However, it's hard to start without something: an idea that interests me, a compelling image.

Ring of Swords began with an idea or maybe a question. Could I write a military space opera, considering that I have no use for the genre?

A YA I am working on now began with two images: a baby, wrapped in a blanket, left ...

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