Archive for October 2011

[EDIT:  Well, we made it to 5,000.  The chipin.com widget's a little slow updating, but someone came and made it rain.  So Kat's shaving her head on the 4th.  Her eyebrows remain safe.  For now.] Remember that post I did a while back about Rachel, the lady who’s trying to get to Sweden to get a breakthrough surgery to save her life?  Well, a few things have happened, and she’s gotten to the point where she’s actually really close to [...]

So if you’re wondering what I think about the strange new genre we’re all calling Urban Fantasy, your friends and mine at Pocket are saying the first one is, if not strictly free, at least seriously discounted. Seriously, there’s a special offer on between now and November 14th that lets you pick up the ebook version of Unclean Spirits (and actually a metric assload of other fine titles) for $3.99.  Take a look. And if you’d like to take a [...]

Helen: Do you agree that it’s fair to describe The Dagger’s Path as classic epic fantasy, with elements such as a medieval world, the legacy of a long ago past reawakening, a journey—the title reference to dragons even! What drew you to this very traditional, storytelling form?   Daniel: The first epic fantasy series I wrote – The Long Price Quartet – was built to be unlike anything else I’d seen in the genre. A different setting, an unfamiliar structure, and a story that wasn’t the usual [...]

  A new short story in the Expanse universe dropped today, “The Butcher of Anderson Station.”  For those what wants more Fred Johnson or Anderson Dawes backstory.  Or for them what likes military Sci Fi.  Or for those with a new e-reader and not enough stuff stored on it. You can check it out at Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Reading this story is guaranteed to change your life forever.*   *Warning: this does not constitute a legal guarantee

I’m about to break a rule. So yesterday, I spent part of my day working up a draft press release for something called Help Rachel Breathe.  I don’t know Rachel or Steven Phillips.  They’re religious, I’m not.  She’s a former professional ballerina, I’m essentially dance-blind.  There are a lot of people in the world who are in trouble.  But much as I chose not to care about Charlie Sheen, I’ve chosen to care about Rachel. I don’t talk about my [...]

If you’re into it, I have an article about Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale up at io9.com  Check it out.

Oh, many, many cool things going on, several of which I should be doing instead of blogging, but you know how it goes, right? The new Balfour and Meriwether short story is up at Subterranean magazine along with a very nice review of Leviathan Wakes.  I’ve just gotten the go-ahead on an article for io9 about Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale that I’ve wanted to write since I first read the book decades ago.  There are book contract conversations mulling and [...]