Tracy Hickman's Blog, page 13

Giant Leap Sideways for the iPad

The media is all abuzz this morning about Apple's announcement of the iPad. This latest example of chrome-laden technology is being touted as a 'magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price.' Cue trumpets.

While I, too, was initially drawn like a moth to the pretty, pretty lights and shiny, moving pictures I quickly began to reflect on the actual usefulness of this device compared to things we already have … like netbooks, laptops, Apple's own iPhone or iPod or for that matter … t...

Reflections on Dragonships

I've been rereading both of the first two Dragonships novels in preparation for launching into Book III. It may seem like a strange thing that an author needs to read their own book. Of course, Margaret does the primary writing of the text on nearly all of our joint collaborations and changes often take place in a text during the writing process, so perhaps it may not seem so odd. However, I would point out that I am also in the process of reading my last draft of my own upcoming 'Drakis'

Welcome to the new Tracy Hickman Official Website

We're coming into a new year and, as you can see, there are many changes coming!

Perhaps most exciting of all will be our implementation of an on-line Speculative Fiction Writing Seminar and Workshop program. We've been offering our writing workshops for several years now and will be making this curriculum available to you later this year.

We also have a number of new projects which we will be announcing right here over the next few months … many of which will open up new horizons for all of...