Well, today’s the day. To those of you who’ve followed my long and storied career may remember that a few years back, I suffered something of a setback. My first series of books was a four book story called the Long Price Quartet. The sales were decent. I earned out my contract. And the reviews were great. “I listed these among the best books of the last decade in the poll, and I really think they are. I recommend them [...]
Archive for November 2012
Jimmy Corey and My Face on a Tube
11.08.12
by Daniel Abraham
So there are a few ways to track me and Ty on the various social media sites. I’m on Facebook under my own name (http://www.facebook.com/profoundsigh) and Twitter (@AbrahamHanover). Ty’s on Google+ (https://plus.google.com/109283350355217542476/posts). BUT Your friends and mine at Orbit have put up a professional site over on Facebook just for James SA Corey. It’s at https://www.facebook.com/JamesSACorey and they’re looking at putting some cool James SA Corey related stuff up there. Exclusive excerpts, cover art, possibly even the very exclusive James [...]
The Good Winners
11.07.12
by Daniel Abraham
We aren’t a culture that knows how to win well. It’s not just something we see in the aftermath of a fight or an election, though that’s what started me thinking about it today. The narrative of conflict we have stops too early. There is a great battle and then someone wins, and then it’s over: the narrative of redemptive violence. It seems to me that there’s another step, and that when you leave out reconciliation and reintegration, you wind [...]