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Powell’s Reading, Portland, Spañguish, y Don Limpio
Two weeks from today I will be flying to Portland to read at Powell’s Books. But, Blake, you ask, which Portland? The one on the left. But, Blake, you ask, which Powell’s? The one at Cedar Hills Crossing, in Beaverton. (Click the link for location etc.) But what if I don’t really want to go [...]
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A Fitting Punishment for Human Folly
And unto Humanity did GOD saith: “Thou have become too Proud of thy gadgets and internets and planes that move thee across the span of My world in hours. Verily, thou are taking Pride in bobbles that by My Grace thou has invented, but which thou have used to Generally Screw Things Up.” And unto [...]
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It’s a Dangerous Business, Walking out Your Front Door
Traveling for pleasure is the most indulgent of luxuries, requiring expendable time, money and a desire to intrude the familiarity of one’s self into the foreignness of new lands and cultures. No one wants to admit to being tourists yet Western Society has only two modes of travel. Are you in town for business, or [...]
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Gone Adventuring!
I’m off to hike the Inca Trail in the Peru. So I’ll be dodging yeti (if they have those in the Andes) and away from the blog/internet until the 20th or there abouts.
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Media Roundup
So during the winter of my blogging discontent, I did find the time to make a few appearances on podcasts and sit for a video interview. Thought I’d put them all in one place for the curious. Let’s go newest to oldest. Just a few days ago, I recorded a podcast with Functional Nerds, during [...]
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First Draft & Food Poisoning
You have your whole life to write your first novel; for your second, you have a year. Or so they say. Yesterday I wrote “THE END” on the last line of Spellbound’s first draft. To celebrate, The Girl took me out to dinner, where I promptly managed to contract a classic case of food poisoning, [...]
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News Post: Book 2, Second Prints, Newspaper Reviews!
BLAKE’S INBOX: Yo, man, WTH? BLAKE: (gazes off into distance with vaguely uncomfortable expression, listens to INTERIOR MONOLOG saying “Gotta finish book two. Gotta finish book two. Gotta finish book two. Gotta finish book two.”) BLAKE’S INBOX: Helllllooooo? BLAKE: (Gotta finish book two. Gotta finish book two. Gotta finish book two.) BLAKE’S INBOX: Do you [...]
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How Doctors Speak
“Blake,” you say to me, as you are often apt to do these days, “I can’t understand a single effen thing my doctor says.” I can sympathize. “And it gets worse when two of you guys are talking to each other. Hard enough to understand one white coat but then another of you walks in [...]
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Writer on the Verge: Saladin Ahmed
One of the pleasures of a literary convention is a chance to discover new talent. At last autumn’s World Fantasy Convention, I had the good luck to be seated next to Saladin Ahmed (web LJ FB) at a writerly dinner. We struck up a conversation and, as writers always do, belly ached about our respective [...]
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Spellwright’s Lost Invocation
This crosspost appeared originally at The Mad Hatter’s Bookshelf. N.B. If you’re in the bay area, consider joining me at Kepler’s Books and Magazines in Menlo Park, at 7:15PM for an introduction by Dr. Abraham Verghese, a reading and signing of the of the book, a afterward a few pints at the BBC, a pub [...]
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