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September 8, 2009
Dragon*Con 2009
This past Labor Day weekend was my very first time attending Dragon*Con as a publishing professional, and really my first "real" time at all. I say first "real" time because I went three years ago for a single day to see Jetse de Vries, who was there at the time with Interzone. I spent most of it with him at his table, watching the crowd pass him by for the guy next to him installing vampire teeth (at $60 a pair, using the same dental instrument and, seemingly, not bothering to clean it betw...
September 2, 2009
Lou Round the Web (Lou Con Smash)
Two items of possible interest:My review of Neil Gaiman's Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?
deluxe edition hardcover is up at Tor.com. The short of it: I wasn't sure if I liked it while reading it, but realized in retrospect that it moved me emotionally much more than I realized. Overall, positive. And it's utterly gorgeous.Meanwhile, over at SF Signal, the latest Mind Meld asks the question, "What are the lessons that Comic-Con and Worldcon can learn from the other? Is there in fa
September 1, 2009
DragonCon
Heading to DragonCon this weekend, my first time as a program participant. I'll be on the following panels:Looking into the Crystal Ball
Time: Fri 05:30 pm
Location: Manila / Singapore / Hong Kong - Hyatt (Length: 1)
Description: Editors talk about trends and what they're looking for
How to Get Rejected
Time: Sun 10:00 am Location: Manila / Singapore / Hong Kong - Hyatt (Length: 1)
Description: A seriously humorous look at why manuscripts get rejected. The editors tell it all!
I'm looking forward
August 31, 2009
My Quick Impressions...
More in-depth response later.
August 27, 2009
The Raven Arrive on American Shores!
Just saw that James Barclay's Dawnthief,
the first book in his Chronicles of the Raven trilogy, is up at Amazon. Should be in physical stores very soon now. Here's a shot of the full cover. The swords are by Sam Hadley, the design by Nicole Sommer-Lecht (and isn't that stark white title font effective?) and there's a story behind the rocky background. Really, really, really happy with the way this one turned out. My copies should arrive today, and I'm so excited to see them.
the first book in his Chronicles of the Raven trilogy, is up at Amazon. Should be in physical stores very soon now. Here's a shot of the full cover. The swords are by Sam Hadley, the design by Nicole Sommer-Lecht (and isn't that stark white title font effective?) and there's a story behind the rocky background. Really, really, really happy with the way this one turned out. My copies should arrive today, and I'm so excited to see them.
August 23, 2009
August 18, 2009
NETLS & Me
Last friday, the 14th, it was my great privilege to be a guest speaker at the NETLS Collection Development Symposium, held in the Allen Public Library in Allen, Texas (outside Dallas). The conference was organized by Steve Seale, Continuing Education Consultant for NETLS (pictured left below), which stands for North Eastern Texas Library Systems. I spoke to the Central Texas Library Systems two years ago, giving a speech on collection
building focused exclusively on science fiction. They recomme
August 12, 2009
The 67th World Science Fiction Convention
Back from the Anticipation, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Montréal, Québec, Canada. So much to say, so little time, as I'm off to Texas tomorrow to give two talks twice each at the NETLS symposium on Friday (held at Allen Public Library, 300 N. Allen, Texas) and I'm still tweaking one of the speeches, and playing mad-out-of-the-office-for-a-week catch up.But, what a con! They had me on about 14 programming items (including participating in three awards ceremonies), and I san
August 2, 2009
Look, Up in the Sky! Is it a Bird? Is it a Plane? No, It's my Next Anthology!
Whew. Just right this second handed in With Great Power, an anthology of Superhero Prose Tales for Pocket books. And what an anthology! Coming in over 120,000 words, and featuring 15 stories by some truly amazing authors, 9 of them regular writers of actual comic books and graphic novels for DC and Marvel. No pastiche or parody this, but actual comics writers and SF&F authors who are themselves comic book fans writing sophisticated, modern narratives of superhero adventure, by and for today's so
July 30, 2009
World Con Schedule
My Anticipation Schedule:
When: Thu 14:00
Location: P-524B
Title: Hollywood's Favorite SF Writer
Session ID: 392
All Participants: David Weingart, Jason Bourget, Lou Anders, John
Scalzi, Lenny Bailes
Moderator: Yourself
Description: Forty years ago it might have been Jules Verne or H. G.
Wells. Today it's the late Philip K. Dick who died before the release
of "Blade Runner," based on his "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
Since then we're seen "Minority Report," "Total Recall," "Next,"
"Screamers
