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February 21, 2013
Coming Soon!
2013 is promising to be a big year, and I am hoping to share several older projects with all of you, as soon as my editor/new-wife/pain-in-my-tail is happy with the lack of typos. I'd like to get at least four out for you this year, the rest may emerge in early 2014. Wish my luck on a very full revising schedule!
Dag: The story of a woman working for the Department of Agriculture who gets entangled in the web of a military-industrial conspiracy, when she'd rather just go home to her foam mattress and a quart of rocky road ice cream. Due April 2013.
Nexus: is about a generational ark spaceship filled with people who will never again see their home world. It's about how they handle internal conflicts as they grapple with their independence, their isolation, and their sponsors interests, while bargaining with new species for mining rights. I'm aiming for July 2013.
The Necromancer's Gambit: A group of magicians based in Portland, Oregon tries to maintain order in the face of a series of murders, and a challenge to the societal authority. Let's say August/September 2013
Banksters: A sociopath climbs the corporate ladder, and enjoys his just rewards. Or, as my father-in-law would say, "Plot, plot, spanky sex." November 2013. Fitting, since this was originally a national-novel-writing-month experiment.
Homeless: A scourge makes every building on the planet uninhabitable, and we see how weak the fabric of society really is.
The Singularity: A physicist investigates a temporal distortion, and how it might be related to a football player's progressive dementia at a remote rehab clinic on the Oregon coast.
Check back soon for more news, and exact release dates!
Dag: The story of a woman working for the Department of Agriculture who gets entangled in the web of a military-industrial conspiracy, when she'd rather just go home to her foam mattress and a quart of rocky road ice cream. Due April 2013.
Nexus: is about a generational ark spaceship filled with people who will never again see their home world. It's about how they handle internal conflicts as they grapple with their independence, their isolation, and their sponsors interests, while bargaining with new species for mining rights. I'm aiming for July 2013.
The Necromancer's Gambit: A group of magicians based in Portland, Oregon tries to maintain order in the face of a series of murders, and a challenge to the societal authority. Let's say August/September 2013
Banksters: A sociopath climbs the corporate ladder, and enjoys his just rewards. Or, as my father-in-law would say, "Plot, plot, spanky sex." November 2013. Fitting, since this was originally a national-novel-writing-month experiment.
Homeless: A scourge makes every building on the planet uninhabitable, and we see how weak the fabric of society really is.
The Singularity: A physicist investigates a temporal distortion, and how it might be related to a football player's progressive dementia at a remote rehab clinic on the Oregon coast.
Check back soon for more news, and exact release dates!
February 4, 2013
New interview, by Michael Diack, author of The Super Spud Trilogy
It's always a pleasure getting to ramble about the craft, with a fellow writer.
Check it out at his blog.
"I don’t know what it is, honestly. There’s a joy to sitting down and stringing sentences together that just does it for me. I technically graduated, and just this week had my day job upgraded to a full-time 'real job', but I’m going to keep writing, because it makes me happier than any other combinations of happy-making things I’ve found. Now that I’m really pushing for other people to read what I’ve been doing, I’m hoping I can spread some of that happy around.
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I’ve been regularly publishing writing on my website for something like seven years. But my site was always very bare bones, no social media aspect, no interaction. It felt kind of like I was in a beat poet coffee bar, doing my thing on a stage, to a bunch of empty chairs.
The e-book thing is different in that now there very much is criticism, and interaction- including interviews. I love it. I want to know how people feel about what I’ve put so much time and myself into. And I hope they enjoy what I do. There’s very little more gratifying, honestly. But not everything I write will be for every person. I hope that by marketing myself in an honest way, I can help people find things of mine they might enjoy, and avoid things that they won’t."
There's a full summary of my upcoming novels at the link, and I'll share that stuff here, later this week, too.
Check it out at his blog.
"I don’t know what it is, honestly. There’s a joy to sitting down and stringing sentences together that just does it for me. I technically graduated, and just this week had my day job upgraded to a full-time 'real job', but I’m going to keep writing, because it makes me happier than any other combinations of happy-making things I’ve found. Now that I’m really pushing for other people to read what I’ve been doing, I’m hoping I can spread some of that happy around.
...
I’ve been regularly publishing writing on my website for something like seven years. But my site was always very bare bones, no social media aspect, no interaction. It felt kind of like I was in a beat poet coffee bar, doing my thing on a stage, to a bunch of empty chairs.
The e-book thing is different in that now there very much is criticism, and interaction- including interviews. I love it. I want to know how people feel about what I’ve put so much time and myself into. And I hope they enjoy what I do. There’s very little more gratifying, honestly. But not everything I write will be for every person. I hope that by marketing myself in an honest way, I can help people find things of mine they might enjoy, and avoid things that they won’t."
There's a full summary of my upcoming novels at the link, and I'll share that stuff here, later this week, too.
February 2, 2013
New interview, by Justin Bienvenue
And a long one at that! Take a look, here.Justin interviews a lot of interesting indie authors, and definitely gave me some food for thought.
Here's an excerpt.
"The book [Whores] is certainly controversial. But so, I would say, are the events that led me to write it. Socially conservative people may see red when they realize large portions of the story do involve female birth control, up to and including abortion, but I think that's just their biases showing. I'm absolutely pro-choice, but the novel isn't about my political beliefs, or evangelizing. If anything, I wanted it to reflect the fact that as much passion as people stoke over the issue, it comes down to human beings making important decisions over their lives.
It's also about a political undercurrent that's somewhat rooted in a movement known as Men's Rights, but also more broadly articulated this last year by conservative officials. Right now, these views are marginalized, but if they gained clout, if they were allowed to fester, they could very easily roll back even what should be noncontroversial aspects of women's health, like cheap access to birth control. And the more we normalize those types of behavior, the more we offer the appearance of validity to fringe groups that would encourage discrimination, misogyny, or violence in other areas of society. Women's reproductive issues took center stage because access to birth control is what allows women economic freedom, which is necessary for anyone to be truly free.
...
All choices when it comes to women's reproduction are difficult, and all of them have ramifications for them socially, psychologically and economically (and if they're so inclined, spiritually, as well). I wanted to show those difficulties, and show some examples, against the backdrop of the story, of why I think the freedom for a woman to make these kinds of choices is important.
It would have been so so easy to invent a straw woman, someone with health conditions that made a pregnancy dangerous, whose pregnancy was the result of incestuous rape, who 95% of people would say should be allowed an abortion. But I wanted the novel to be about choices, and why people might reasonably make the choices they do. I think the repetition of different women choosing how to live their lives independent of their role in reproduction to some felt like a drum beat, me trying repeatedly to make a point, when to me each woman in the story, and her choices and the reasoning behind them, are distinct."
I owe you an update a bit later this week. I'm excited to share synopses for a number of new novels I should be releasing very soon.
Here's an excerpt.
"The book [Whores] is certainly controversial. But so, I would say, are the events that led me to write it. Socially conservative people may see red when they realize large portions of the story do involve female birth control, up to and including abortion, but I think that's just their biases showing. I'm absolutely pro-choice, but the novel isn't about my political beliefs, or evangelizing. If anything, I wanted it to reflect the fact that as much passion as people stoke over the issue, it comes down to human beings making important decisions over their lives.
It's also about a political undercurrent that's somewhat rooted in a movement known as Men's Rights, but also more broadly articulated this last year by conservative officials. Right now, these views are marginalized, but if they gained clout, if they were allowed to fester, they could very easily roll back even what should be noncontroversial aspects of women's health, like cheap access to birth control. And the more we normalize those types of behavior, the more we offer the appearance of validity to fringe groups that would encourage discrimination, misogyny, or violence in other areas of society. Women's reproductive issues took center stage because access to birth control is what allows women economic freedom, which is necessary for anyone to be truly free.
...
All choices when it comes to women's reproduction are difficult, and all of them have ramifications for them socially, psychologically and economically (and if they're so inclined, spiritually, as well). I wanted to show those difficulties, and show some examples, against the backdrop of the story, of why I think the freedom for a woman to make these kinds of choices is important.
It would have been so so easy to invent a straw woman, someone with health conditions that made a pregnancy dangerous, whose pregnancy was the result of incestuous rape, who 95% of people would say should be allowed an abortion. But I wanted the novel to be about choices, and why people might reasonably make the choices they do. I think the repetition of different women choosing how to live their lives independent of their role in reproduction to some felt like a drum beat, me trying repeatedly to make a point, when to me each woman in the story, and her choices and the reasoning behind them, are distinct."
I owe you an update a bit later this week. I'm excited to share synopses for a number of new novels I should be releasing very soon.
Giveaway and Review on The Review Hutch
Check it out at The Review Hutch.
The link also has some great text from last weeks interview, discussing my inspiration with Whores, and an introduction to my work.
Enjoy!
The link also has some great text from last weeks interview, discussing my inspiration with Whores, and an introduction to my work.
Enjoy!
January 30, 2013
New interview about Whores, inspiration, and writers dead and gone.
Check it out at the review hutch.
Look for more info on Whores here on goodreads!
Whores: not intended to be a factual account of the gender war
Or follow along on facebook.
Look for more info on Whores here on goodreads!
Whores: not intended to be a factual account of the gender war
Or follow along on facebook.
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