Graham Storrs's Blog, page 21

Home From The Front

Well, I feel I am no longer a sci-fi novice. I'm just home from the World Science Fiction Convention, WorldCon 68, and I have the post-con exhaustion to prove it. I met up with my old Orbiteer buddies (the guys who started all this for me) and got the outstanding news that yet another one of us has made it into print. Joanne Anderton has just signed a two-book deal (which I'm sure she'll announce any moment now)! Anyone who has read Joanne's work will not be in the least bit s...

The TimeSplash Audio Book Pre-Release is Available to Download Right Now

Download the TimeSplah pre-release audiobook at a massively discounted price.

As promised, Big Bad Media has put out a pre-release edition of the TimeSplash audiobook at just £4.95. Click the Buy Now button below and you will be taken straight to Paypal to make the transaction. If you'd like to hear sample chapters from the book, this link will take you to the TimeSplash page at Big Bad Media. This price will no longer be available in a few weeks when the full release is...

Big News About TimeSplash

Over on my TimeSplash blog, where I talk about all things to do with my novel, you will find details of a brilliant and exciting announcement. You will all recall that, six months ago, TimeSplash was published as an ebook by Lyrical Press. Well, now the print and audiobook rights have been picked up by another publisher: Big Bad Media. Yes, TimeSplash will soon be in print and audio!

As I say, the details are on the TimeSplash blog, so I won't go on about it here too, except...

And Don't Forget to Doff Your Cap

I read yet another blog post recently about writers not following submission guidelines. This one was by a publisher, but I've also read them from agents and magazine editors. Well, yes, writers should follow the submission guidelines. The fact that every agent and editor in the whole world has ever-so-slightly different requirements notwithstanding, it is impolite and just plain self-destructive not to do that extra bit of work if they really want you to.

The interesting...

Placid Point and the Rules of Self-Publishing

Over the past year or so, wisdom has been accumulating in the blogsphere about who should self-publish, what they should self-publish, and when. The advice seems to amount to this:

If no-one else is going to publish it (because, say, it was commercially published once but is now out of print, or it's new but your agent can't sell it) ANDIt is good (which you can tell because it was once commercially published, or your agent has been trying to sell it) ANDIt has been...

Review: Voyager by Stephen J. Pyne

Voyager by Stephen J Pyne

(This review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books.)

Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery by Stephen J. Pyne is a book that aims to set the West's exploration of the Solar System in its historical context. Pyne, a historian at Arizona State University, has an "organizing conceit" for looking at this context based around three broad ages of discovery.

The first began with the great voyages of discovery by...

5 minutes with Graham Storrs at quillsandzebras

Just a quick note to let you know I have been interviewed by the lovely A.M. Harte on her quillsandzebras blog. Anyone who has read my book, TimeSplash, may wonder what is the only thing that my uber-villain, Sniper, and I have in common.  Well, the answer is…  just a click away at quillsandzebras.

Self-Published vs Commercially-Published: The editor is what matters

In the brave new world of electronic publishing – in which we live right now – picking up an unknown book by an unknown author has become a much bigger risk than it used to be in the old, print-only days of a couple of years ago. This is because, on the major retails sites, the line between commercially-published and self-published ebooks has become rather blurred. Sometimes it is impossible to tell which is which without looking at the content. Sometimes, of course, even the ...

Oh What a Tangled Web We Weave

What can I say? It's fun!

Not being a religious person, I don't have a handy reference book to guide me on moral matters. So I tend to put in quite a lot of brain-time working on questions of right and wrong. One of these questions popped into my head a couple of years ago – about the time when I first started having my fiction published. I suppose that, until that point, writing fiction was just something I did in private that had no consequences in the world. Suddenly...

Time Dilation is Not a Writer's Friend

Look out! It's BP!

G'day mates. It's a bright and sunny winter's morning as I write, Independence Day in the US, and just another gorgeous 5th July here in Australia. Since I've been neglecting my readers lately, I thought I'd throw in a simple update on my writing life just to keep things moving along.

My head has been buried in my netbook for the past few weeks as I tackle my latest novel, Loner's Deep. It's part 1 of a three-part spce opera (and a sequel to another...