Liam R.W. Doyle's Blog, page 2
November 6, 2016
Fading Suns fanfic – Another Day in the Life
Here’s a little story I wrote as Fading Suns fanfiction. Thought I’d put it up for a bit, check out any comments, before I ebook it and put it up (for free) on Smashwords and the Writing page of this site. Side note: Fading Suns just just moved publishing from FASA to a favorite game […]
July 3, 2016
Moleskine, the perfect pen, and other hipster issues
I must have deliberated over what Moleskine I wanted to get yesterday more than anything in my life! I stood in Powell’s Bookstore for 30 minutes picking them up, putting them back, placing them next to each other, comparing line widths, making them kiss, checking features, until finally I decided on one that I thought […]
June 26, 2016
Why you should research a bit before you write
So during my writing retreat yesterday, I wrote a chapter involving a character in an escape pod that’s tumbling through space. A not bad chapter for a first draft, I think. But I used my uneducated assumptions about what the occupant would or wouldn’t feel, perceive, of a tumbling craft in space, to create some […]
June 25, 2016
On your mark, get set. . . delay!
As a member of Willamette Writers (I’ll do a post on that later), I get access to renting a room for a day at their writer’s house, not far from where I live. It’s a memorial house where all the rooms have been converted to writing offices, a library, and a meeting room. Each writing […]
April 11, 2016
Eat Local
So we moved to Portland, Oregon not long ago, but I still haven’t explored all the area has to offer yet. Sadly, independent bookstores have taken a back-burner until recently — I’ve spent my time at Powell’s which is sort of indie… in the sense that they’re locally owned and are amazing at bringing in […]
March 16, 2016
Reports of print’s death are exaggerated
Okay, I never actually said print was dead, did I? Well, I did clarify, at least, yeah? So, to cease to dissemble, the big news is this: My books are not in actual dead tree paper print! I’ve been spending the last… goodly amount of time in editing, formatting, proofing, cover creation, and the end […]
June 9, 2015
More stories made available
Just wanted to mention, I just added a few of the older stories on Smashwords (and, soon, all otherebook merchants like Kobo and Barnes and Noble). I’ve added new images and links over on the Fiction Page. The ones I added were: “A Price in Every Box” — This storylooks at what happens when Pandora […]
May 27, 2015
Print is still dead, sorta
Wow, has it really been nearly 3 years since I first wrote about Apex Publishing along with my opinion on consuming short fiction? In that post, Print is Dead, I opine that paper as the means of consuming short fiction was terminal, if not dead already. I still feel that way; nothing has changed on […]
May 25, 2015
Mark Z. Danielewski comes to visit
Just a couple days following the appearance of Neal Stephenson at Powell’s west, one of my favorite postmodern author’s, the risky and groundbreaking genius, Mark Z. Danielewski came to the main Powell’s to talk about his new book series, The Familiar. It’s a 27-volume series inspired by serial television, with many characters with intertwining lives, […]
May 19, 2015
Neal Stephenson, Seveneves, and envy
I didn’t get to ask the question I wanted to. A question I’ve wanted to ask him for years. Alas. Continuing the amazing roll of meeting favorite authors since moving to Portland, tonight I saw Neal Stephenson at Powell’s for the release, on this day, of his new novel, Seveneves. He read a portion (very […]
