Archive for March 2011

This time with the inimitable Jeff VanderMeer at the Omnivoracious blog. Share and enjoy!

The seem to like it. “Prepare to be startled, shocked, and entertained.” That’s good, right?

Just a heads-up, folks.  If the biggest problem in your life is that you don’t know enough minor trivia about mine, I have joined the twitterverse.  I’m @AbrahamHanover.

Not one but two (somewhat contradictory!) reviews and a nifty new look at Fantasy Book Critic. One of the really interesting things about this gig is that everything you put out there is a Rorschach test.  Is it any wonder that writers are a neurotic bunch of folks?  Everything we do is given to the world for the casual judgment of others, and there isn’t even an objective scale. Still *way* beats tech support.

I should be writing something besides a blog post.  Seriously.  Caliban’s War, the second book of The Expanse, and The King’s Blood, follow-up to The Dragon’s Path are both due June 1st, and I’m paying a little now for kicking back last year.  Oh, they’ll be done, but a blog post? But some recent conversations about escapism and racism and fantasy have got me going.  I’ve been thinking about exoticism.  And about guilty pleasures.  I’m still thinking through all this, [...]

  Which is to say another excerpt is up at Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist.  I also got email from your friends and mine at Orbit.  They’ve got the actual book back from the printers.  While the ARCs for it are lovely, I’m looking forward to having the actual book in my hands. There are other excerpts up here and here. And, in unrelated news, congratulations are due to my alter ego, MLN Hanover.  Her first short story — Hurt Me — [...]

Your friends and mine at Kirkus have reviewed The Dragon’s Path. I am wildly amused.

  The folks at SF Signal asked a bunch of folks (myself included) what forthcoming F&SF books had our ears pricked up.  Patricia Briggs, William Schafer, Scott Cupp, Mike Resnick, Cat Rambo, Jean Rabe, David Louis Edelman, Mur Lafferty, Ann VanderMeer, Lisa Goldstein, Mindy Klasky, Summer Brooks, and I compare wishlists here.

Your friends and mine at Orbit have just announced something I’ve been keeping under my hat for a while now.  But yes, Now It Can Be Told. The upshot is that is you buy the ebook of Dragon’s Path, you’ll also get Leviathan Wakes.  And if you buy the electronic version of Leviathan Wakes, it comes with a complimentary Dragon’s Path. So if you were wondering which one to get . . .