Archive for December 2011

James S. A. Corey has earned both a Hottie and an Unexpected Surprise. Because I have just finished rewatching Dodgeball, I can say nothing else about this without the risk of saying something I will later regret. My kindergarten-age daughter has not seen the film, but does sometimes spontaneously say “If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.”  Ah, the things they pick up in daycare…

In a Crazy Eddie level price slashing move, Orbit has decided to sell a number of their e-book titles for $2.99 for a limited time.  One of those titles is Leviathan Wakes.  What makes this madness even more. . . mad, is that the e-book of Leviathan Wakes also contains a FREE copy of the ARC of Dragon’s Path.  That’s TWO books for $2.99, delivered right to your e-reader of choice!  That’s over 350,000 words of slam bang entertainment for [...]

Joyeux noel, y’all.

Here I am interviewed by the center of the writing universe (seriously, this woman knows everyone) Emily Mah.  I mostly natter on about nonsense, but there’s a lovely picture of Jen Taylor, famous video game voice and TV/Movie actress, hugging on me.  So it’s worth checking out just for that.

So a little while back, my buddy Cameron told me about this gig he’s part of here in Albuquerque called Ignite New Mexico.  Every so often folks get together and spend an evening doing presentations to one another.  The talks are five minutes long (no longer) on the theory that even if the talk sucks, something else interesting will be along in a minute.  I was in the first part of the Game of Thrones comic book adaptation, and so [...]

I choose not to believe in free will as a courtesy to my friends — Walter Jon Williams I’ve had a few conversations in the past few days about men behaving badly.  One was a conversation about Frank Miller’s opinion of the Occupy movement.  Another was a private post about sexual harassment at conventions.  Another was an exhumation of an infamous incident involving a famous science fiction author and editor that no one would benefit by being too specific about. [...]

I saw you tonight. You were walking with your cabal from the university to the little bar across the street where the professors and graduate students fraternize. You were in the dark, plain clothes that you think of as elegant. I have always thought they made you look pale. I was at the newsstand. I think that you saw me, but pretended not to. I want to say it didn’t sting.   God, sometimes I amuse myself. I have a [...]

Stephen King won the best SF category of the Goodreads awards. Losing to Stephen King is not embarrassing, I must admit.  We got almost 900 votes, and came in ahead of some other excellent books.  Not a bad showing, and we’re grateful to every single person that voted. And, to his great relief, Daniel doesn’t have to pose nude now.   Unless he just wants to, I guess.

Another Reason Daniel is the Luckiest Man in Christendom