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November 23, 2015
Editing Is Not Solitary
Today, I will mostly be beating the last kinks out Greenstar Season 3 listings on various retailers ready for the pre-release tomorrow. So, here’s a photograph of Jasper supervising my wife’s work. Which, of course, clearly reveals both why we don’t get more done and why that doesn’t bother us.
November 20, 2015
The Vampire Circus by Rod Kierkegaard Jr.
Combining an engaging portrayal of Europe and America in the 1920’s with an interesting twist on the social vampire trope, Kierkegaard produces a narrative full of ancient conspiracy and subtle threat without forgoing pace or immediacy. This book contains the first five episodes of Kierkegaard’s serial, The Vampires of Paris. When Johnny Durango, former Pinkerton […]
November 18, 2015
A Strange Footprint on the Shores of the Unknown
All the episodes for Greenstar Season 3 have had their final polish, the metadata is gathered in, and I did a final check on the e-galleys this morning. So, the only pre-flight check left is to review a proof copy. I am most excited, and hope you are too. To celebrate: behold the fine front […]
November 16, 2015
Using The Brain
The World Fantasy Award will no longer be a rather odd-looking statue of HP Lovecraft. This has incited enough illogic by both pro- and anti-Lovecraft statuists that I am minded to declare a plague on both their houses; and to suggest an award statue of my own. The petition that incited the change called for […]
November 13, 2015
Cityscapes by Anthony Khayat (ed.), Sara Khayat (ed.), Gabby McCullough (ed.), and Willie Watt (ed.)
Revealing the immense power of individual perspective to turn even the most banal of experiences into a meaningful event, and then adding the counterpoint that this makes each person responsible for their life being banal, this collection suggests that the real cityscape might be the spaces between the buildings. Vibrant, emotive, meaningful, yet also fun, […]
November 11, 2015
The Noble Language of The Eye
You will be unsurprised to read that I think my books are good. If you know me well, or any author well, you will probably also be unsurprised to read that I have difficulty stating openly that I think my books are good. However, I realised today that waiting for people to ask before I […]
November 9, 2015
No Fermi Answers
This infographic sets out several solutions to the Fermi Paradox that are less pessimistic than advanced civilisations tend to destroy themselves before they reach interstellar travel. In the Greenstar Universe, our answer to the Fermi Paradox was a predator civilisation with a of the few others mixed in; it just happened that humanity was the […]
November 6, 2015
Witch’s Sacrifice by Crissy Moss
Mixing a fresh take on high-fantasy tropes with a realistic version of young love, Moss creates a tale that will appeal to both lovers of epic struggles against evil, and those seeking a more personal narrative. Since the goddess abandoned her people, the islands have been plagued by the evils of magic. Only the tyrannical […]
November 4, 2015
Sibling of the World
Debbie Manber Kupfer has nominated me for the Sibling of the World Award. While it is more a focused-getting-to-know someone affair than an actual award, I aspire to a sense of ethical siblinghood with humanity. So, I’ll happily identify as a Sibling of the World. Whether my answers advance that aim is for others to […]
November 2, 2015
Calm Down, Calm Down
As someone who has benefited from having a plan in place beforehand, I agree with the general approach Levitin suggests. However, potentially due to the needs of fitting his point into the length of a TED talk, there seem to be a couple of missing details: targeting and analysis. First, while many people might infer […]
