If you’ve read Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle, you know the Big Idea, here: World War II is over, and Germany and its allies won. The world has been carved up between Japan and Germany. What was once the United States is divided between the Japanese Pacific States and the Greater […]
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I’ve been working at my new day job for a few weeks now, and as my lack of constant twitter chatter will tell you – I’ve been very busy. I’m up early to work on novel writing, and engaged in pretty much 100% billable agency work all day. I get asked, often, how it is
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Awhile back, Mark Lawrence invited me and a bunch of other fantasy writers to share book numbers for an informal poll on the relationship between Goodreads ratings and actual sales. Being a numbers nerd, I was happy to participate, as were some other authors, many of whom shared hard numbers. I missed the final result,
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Note: Writerly process navel-gazing ahoy I wrote the last scene, and the last line, of my next book, The Stars are Legion today. That doesn’t mean the book is done, mind you – it just means I finally know where all the disjointed tens of thousands of words are actually going. So now I get
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I’m knee deep in writing. Maybe hip deep. Ok, maybe neck deep. Which is a nice change from a very long year of being “on” pretty much 24/7, with constant Living Out Loud on top of the writing, and the day job. There was the Hugos stuff, the calls from NPR, and The Atlantic, and
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I read Joanna Russ’s We Who Are About To… when I was in my early twenties. It’s the story of a bunch of unrelated people who crash land on an uninhabited but habitable planet, and whose male members quickly decide that what they really all ought to do, since no hope of rescue is forthcoming,
The Long Fall to a Sentient, Creepy Planet: Planetfall Read More »
I am very pleased to say that I’ve taken up a new position as a Content Marketing Manager at a local advertising agency that I had the pleasure of working with when I was still a baby writer five years ago. I admit that after doing five years of in-house work, it’s fun to be
A Few Life Changes, and a Break in Service Read More »
It’s that time of year again, folks: when I write you a bloody, epic madcap of a book and flood your local bookery blogs with rants, interviews, and articles about all things strange. As ever, I’ll be updating this post with links each week as they go live so you can catch up on what
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On the bike ride home today, I thought about giving up on publishing. Just telling the whole enterprise to fuck itself. All the haters. All the wonky business people. All the fuckery contract language. All the bullshit. I’d sell the house and load our shit up into an Airstream trailer and we’d disappear off the face of
I want to talk a little bit about book numbers here. I have before, but it’s time to do it again, because I’ve been watching a great crop of hungry and talented debut novelists throwing themselves out of the nest recently, and it’s on my mind. I don’t want to talk about the big, bad book
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