I had anxiety issues last night and ended up getting up a...
I had anxiety issues last night and ended up getting up at 1:00 am and not going back to bed until after 4:00. Did you know after a certain point HGTV puts up a card that says "Sweet Dreams" and then signs off to infomercials? I didn't know that. Fortunately Food Network holds on a little longer. TCM seems to be on all night, but I didn't want to see the movie they had on.
So I think I'm going to be kind of tired today and probably not making much sense. And I need to figure out something to do about my hair before WorldCon. Shaving it off is starting to seem like a good option.
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The Serpent Sea is now listed on Night Shade's catalog. The link has the back cover description of the book and the cover without titles. (It'll be available this January.)
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celli
asked What's your favorite Lord King Bad book? Something that breaks all the rules of what you normally like in a book and makes you adore it anyway.
I can't really think of many, because I don't really have a lot of rules about what I like in a book, except that I like it. One thing I do usually prefer is that the narrator be at least likable enough that I can stand to have them in my head for the length of the book. The books that come to mind that I still liked even though I didn't care for the main narrator is the Oscar Wilde mystery series by Gyles Brandreth. I love Oscar, but the books are mostly written from the viewpoint of Robert Sherard, and he doesn't come off well. He's a little creepy, especially in the first book.
mahoni
asked What are some of your favorite untold bits of background or story from any of your books -- details about characters/places/background info/etc that didn't make into a book, or parts of story that ultimately didn't have a place in the overall story, but not for lack of love?
That's a tough one. There were several scenes that I wrote for Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary that I liked a lot, but ended up taking out when I changed the plot for the beginning a bit and they didn't fit anymore.
The biggest one is probably the first third of the prequel to The Wizard Hunters, about Giliead and Ilias, that I stopped writing because the publisher didn't want to see it. Some of it ended up in the stories that Black Gate published, but some didn't.
There's also the beginning of a novel that had Moon as the main character, that was one of the ones I started and dropped before finally starting The Cloud Roads. I think there was almost 20,000 words of that one. (The plot of The Cloud Roads was basically the backstory for that novel, and I decided I liked it better.) I have about five or six novels from that period that all died in the 10,000 to 20,000 word range, and there are parts of them I really like. Some bits got revised and used later, but a lot didn't.
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I updated the Publishing Information Sites for Beginning Authors on my site with this link: Promoting Your Work at Conventions
Science fiction and fantasy conventions ("cons") are a great place for authors of fantasy and science fiction to promote their work among genre readers. Most cons are "fan" conventions which attendees, including program participants, generally attend primarily to participate in the convention experience. This fan convention culture is unlike higher-profile for-profit media shows where nearly all program participants are there to sell or promote themselves or their work and where attendees are primarily audience members.
So I think I'm going to be kind of tired today and probably not making much sense. And I need to figure out something to do about my hair before WorldCon. Shaving it off is starting to seem like a good option.
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The Serpent Sea is now listed on Night Shade's catalog. The link has the back cover description of the book and the cover without titles. (It'll be available this January.)
***
celli
asked What's your favorite Lord King Bad book? Something that breaks all the rules of what you normally like in a book and makes you adore it anyway.I can't really think of many, because I don't really have a lot of rules about what I like in a book, except that I like it. One thing I do usually prefer is that the narrator be at least likable enough that I can stand to have them in my head for the length of the book. The books that come to mind that I still liked even though I didn't care for the main narrator is the Oscar Wilde mystery series by Gyles Brandreth. I love Oscar, but the books are mostly written from the viewpoint of Robert Sherard, and he doesn't come off well. He's a little creepy, especially in the first book.
mahoni
asked What are some of your favorite untold bits of background or story from any of your books -- details about characters/places/background info/etc that didn't make into a book, or parts of story that ultimately didn't have a place in the overall story, but not for lack of love?That's a tough one. There were several scenes that I wrote for Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary that I liked a lot, but ended up taking out when I changed the plot for the beginning a bit and they didn't fit anymore.
The biggest one is probably the first third of the prequel to The Wizard Hunters, about Giliead and Ilias, that I stopped writing because the publisher didn't want to see it. Some of it ended up in the stories that Black Gate published, but some didn't.
There's also the beginning of a novel that had Moon as the main character, that was one of the ones I started and dropped before finally starting The Cloud Roads. I think there was almost 20,000 words of that one. (The plot of The Cloud Roads was basically the backstory for that novel, and I decided I liked it better.) I have about five or six novels from that period that all died in the 10,000 to 20,000 word range, and there are parts of them I really like. Some bits got revised and used later, but a lot didn't.
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I updated the Publishing Information Sites for Beginning Authors on my site with this link: Promoting Your Work at Conventions
Science fiction and fantasy conventions ("cons") are a great place for authors of fantasy and science fiction to promote their work among genre readers. Most cons are "fan" conventions which attendees, including program participants, generally attend primarily to participate in the convention experience. This fan convention culture is unlike higher-profile for-profit media shows where nearly all program participants are there to sell or promote themselves or their work and where attendees are primarily audience members.
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