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2:10 pm 11-Dec-2009 8 responses

SPELLWRIGHT UK & Australia Cover Rethink

Just got word from my UK editor that they have been pondering their cover for SPELLWRIGHT and looking for a way to work the academy of Starhaven (a magical academy based loosely on a university in New Haven) onto the art. I hadn’t been aware that cover art might change, so don’t take this as [...]

5:36 pm 10-Dec-2009 4 responses

Belated End of Year Updatery

Dearly Beloved YOU PEOPLE: Apologies for the dearth of blog posts. After my publicity blitz for the interview I wrote up for A Dribble of Ink, I was pretty tired of the-business-of-writing and wanted to get back to actual writing. Progress on SPELLBOUND is moving along. I hit the 36,000 word mark last night and [...]

12:51 pm 12-Nov-2009 one response

An Interview about Spellwright & my Contemplations Fantastic

Check out my first interview as a debut author! Aidan Moher and his uber-slick SFF blog, A Dribble of Ink, showed up on my radar last summer and since then ADoI has become one of my favorite blogs. It’s got all the current genre news, great presentation of the latest cover art, thoughtful reviews, and [...]

10:17 pm 9-Nov-2009 12 responses

Why Adolescent Medicine is Awesome

(The following dialog is the amalgamation of several patient encounters and represents no actual patient encounter. All identifying information has been removed to avoid an authorial HIPAA violation and a teen OMGWTFHOLLA violation.) Girl-who-thinks-she-got-a-higher-verbal-SAT-score-than-I-did: Look I just need you to sign my physical form so I can play volleyball. And I’ve been waiting for like…ever. [...]

7:21 pm 2-Nov-2009 8 responses

World Fantasy Convention 2009 Report

My second WFC. The first was Austin 2006, right after I signed with Tor. This year WFC felt different-not only in the physical details of city, hotel, programming, but also in the spirit of the convention. I must have had five different conversations about the “present state of publishing and the economy.” Some of this [...]

5:29 pm 2-Nov-2009 respond to this

Hype No More

Back in August, someone in the industry was good enough to talk up SPELLWRIGHT to Pat of his mighty Fantasy Hotlist. Pat remained cautious but reported that his source thought the book would “be in contention for best first fantasy novel ever.” This sparked more than a few understandably skeptical comments. For a few weeks [...]

5:04 pm 27-Oct-2009 one response

SPELLWRIGHT UK & Commonwealth Cover

I’m happy to report that Voyager has sent me an image of the UK & Commonwealth cover for SPELLWRIGHT. The artist has done a wonderful job capturing the dynamic nature of the magic-system. Because magical runes are formed within muscle I think of spellwrights as athletes as well as authors. This cover does a wonderful [...]

4:30 pm 21-Oct-2009 3 responses

Words, Words, Words

It’s been a very hectic week. Mostly because, at least once a year, med students regress to high school and go to prom. Turns out that it’s a lot better at 29 than it was at 19. The downside, of course, is that one must now contend with the Facebook sequela of prom. In any [...]

11:35 am 17-Oct-2009 2 responses