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Read Like No One is Watching
Got a crosspost for you today. I was invited to contribute a mini-essay for the blog of the the “Everybody’s Reading” festival in Leicester, UK. Given that Spellwright is now entering its *fourth* day on the UK’s Top 100 Bestselling Kindle Books, I jumped at the chance to give something back to the isle across [...]
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The Student-Doctor Newbie-Author Shuffle
Dearly Beloved Y’All, Apologies for the blog abuse. A sudden turn of events a few weeks back has made things pretty hectic. Here’s the 411. The line edits for Spellbound started coming in and are looking good, correcting smaller errors and adding polishing touches. Nothing major. Well, at least not yet. My editor’s been sending [...]
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Spellwright’s First European Covers: “De Taal der Spreuken” & “Czaropis”
The one thing—if you trust in the wisdom of proverbs—we are not supposed to judge a book by is the one thing we most often use to judge a book. Perhaps this has become more true as the number of books proliferates. I’ve been thinking about cover art a lot as the Tor’s art department [...]
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Why You Should Be Excited about Spellbound
About a week ago I turned in a more polished draft of Spellbound to the Editing Powers that Be. I now forge on to Disjunction and get back to my medical research day job until the edit letter comes back. In the meantime, I’m really excited about Spellbound. Here are a few, non-spoiling reasons why [...]
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Guerilla Reading in *Boston* Next Thursday!
It never rains but it pours here in the balmy tropical island of Boston. After setting up this Saturday’s event in the wildness of Manhattan, I’ve gotten the green light to put together a reading up here in where the palm trees sway. This event will take place in the cloud forest known as Pandemonium [...]
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Guerilla Reading in *NYC* this Saturday!
Dearly Beloved You All, This weekend, I’ve decided to leave palm-tree infested Boston for the rugged boreal forest that is Greater New York. I hear the Queens wood elk can been seen this time of year, along with the Yonkers moose, the Lower East Side Woodrat, and the tight-pantsed Williamsburg hipster. I also have heard [...]
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Books are for Girls?
Dearly Beloved YOU GUYS: In my hometown there was a genre bookseller named Future Fantasy. Small store, off the beaten path, beside a coin collector and a funky, old taquería. When I finally learned how to read at thirteen, I used watch their author signing schedule and bike my fantasy paperbacks over to get signed [...]
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Readercon 2010 Report
Well, I’m back in the The Girl’s apartment and her cats have deigned to let a lowly creature like me return to their kingdom. I just woke up from a nap and found both of them staring at me as if they were calculating how many calories my body might contain. Anyway, this was my [...]
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Tentative Publication Dates & Readercon Schedule
Dearly Beloved YOU PEOPLE: Once upon a time, summer meant long days at the pool and evenings biking around the neighborhood until the streetlights came on. They were incandescent lights then, a white glow that lit the undersides of sycamores and made the twilight sky between the branches seem more luminous. Alas that those days [...]
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Writer on the Verge: Mary Victoria
Fantasy literature is written the world over, but many readers—including me—tend to pick up only books written by our compatriots. That made sense in the past; a dead-tree book needs to catch our eye in the local (and I hope independent) bookseller. I suspect that Americans are particularly guilty in this regard: reading mostly contemporary [...]
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