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Spellbound Cover Art Making-of Video
The amazingly gifted Todd Lockwood has put up a making-of video for some cover art for Spellbound over on his website. As viewed on his site, it’s very impressive! I wanted to show it off here, but could only reproduce a very compressed version on youtube. It goes by waaaay too fast. Hence the flash-in-the-pan [...]
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Starhaven Illustrated
Dearly Beloved YOU GUYS: I’ve been fortunate over the past two years to work with Rhys Davies, an up-and-coming cartographer and illustrator of books. Readers of Spellwright are already familiar with Rhys’s work in the form of his map of the Six Human Kingdoms that appears in the book. Lately, I’ve been working with Rhys [...]
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What Rough Draft, It’s Hour Come Round at Last
Deadlines make me moody. This year it so happened that the production deadline for Spellbound landed only a few days after the convention for my regional meeting of the American College of Physicians. I could have played hooky…if I weren’t on the meeting’s planning commit and if I weren’t helping Dr. Verghese teach a CME [...]
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Spellbound Synopsis
While I’m cranking away at getting the Spellbound manuscript into production, I thought I’d share a Spellbound synopsis cooked up by my friend and ace-beta reader Megan. Enjoy! Francesca DeVega is a successful healer in the city of Avel, wielding magical text to close wounds and disspell curses, but her life is thrown into chaos [...]
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Personally, I Welcome Our New Speculative Fiction Overlord
Dearly Beloved YOU PEOPLE: It’s go time with the last revision of Spellbound. As such, until we put this manuscript into production in a few weeks, I’m gonna pretty much not be on the internets. Till then, I’m going to leave this post up as a diversion-until-I-return post. And what better place to divert you [...]
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Is There Such a Thing as YA Crossunder?
Dearly Beloved Y’ALL, Forgive me if this post comes from a lack of knowledge about the publication industry. I try to learn of the ‘industry’ only so far has it helps a project along. I salute those folks who become experts in the byzantine ins and outs of marketing, distribution, packaging, etc. But lately, I’ve [...]
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WFC2010 Epic Fantasy Panel
For your viewing convenience, here’s the complete WFC2010 Epic Fantasy Panel video, featuring David B. Coe (m), Freda Warrington, John Fultz, David Drake, & Yours Truly. (Click through to check out the SciFiFantasyBooks Channel.)
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World Fantasy Convention 2010 Report
The World Fantasy Convention is like summer camp for fantasists: a yearly reunion to see how everyone’s changed, hear news of projects completed and underway, and leave daily life behind for a little ridiculousness. The major difference between summer camp and WFC seems to be the lack of canoe lessons and the presence of a [...]
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World Fantasy 2010 Pregame Report
Dearly Beloved YOU GUYS: The annual, ritualistic gathering of lovers and writers of fantasy literature is upon us! Last year’s ritualistic gathering in my hometown was grand, as documented here, here, and here. This year promises to be just as good. Check out the 2010 website and its official schedule [PDF]. This year will be [...]
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Todd Lockwood’s Beautiful SPELLBOUND Cover Art
I’m very proud to introduce Spellbound‘s breathtaking US cover. Art by the amazing Todd Lockwood, art direction by the super talented Irene Gallo. For a description about the process of making the cover and how it fits into the story of Spellbound click through to my Tor.com post on the art. UPDATE: Reviews of the [...]
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