The C-Word or “C” is for Cancer - Author Eugie Foster is in great and sudden need, something I understand all too well. I will be shifting some of the funds raised for me to Eugie. Please join me in helping her.

You can do a lot in a lifetime if you don't burn out too fast - Lisa Costello on her first year in Portland (with me).

METAtropolis: ( Read more... )

2013 Locus Awards Finalists - My Nebula- and Hugo-nominated novella, "The Stars Do Not Lie", is also a finalist for the Locus Awards as well. I am quite pleased

A reader reacts to Escapement - They didn't like it so much.

Ultraconserved words? Really?? - Language Log responds to the recent "ultraconserved words" story.

Sky Crane - A gorgeous ( Read more... )

A reader reacts to Escapement - They liked it better than Mainspring.

Worldbuilding with Maps - Art guru James Gurney (of Dinotopia fame) is interesting.

Rob and Laura: 1963 - I'm not quite old enough to remember this as a prime time series, but it was in regular rerun rotation when I was a little kid, in the year or so I actually watched ( Read more... )

Got a package from my agent yesterday. The Russian edition of Green, and the German edition of Escapement were lodged therein.

I still think foreign covers are sooooo cool.


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I am pleased to be able to announce that my German publisher, Bastei Lübbe, has acquired the German language rights to Endurance, to go along with last year's acquisition of Green along with the Mainspringtrilogy. This is via my agent Jennifer Jackson of Donald Maass Literary Agency ( Read more... )

Saturday evening I was texting with ( Read more... )

A catalog of digital thoughts: Escapement - A reader reacts to my second clock punk novel, Escapement.

20 awesome gingerbread creations inspired by sci-fi films and TV - A gingerbread AT-AT? (Via my mom.)

As Permafrost Thaws, Scientists Study the Risks - I don't know why scientists are wasting money gathering realworld data when GOP ideology has ( Read more... )

Now I'm going to complain about something that will probably irk some of the aspiring writers who read this blog. It's one of those established writer problems that can look ridiculous from the outside, but is perfectly real and serious from the inside ( Read more... )

Not that anybody was asking, but in an attempt to corral my own thoughts, here’s a list of all the novels I’ve ever written/co-written or am committed to writing, time and my health permitting. I make this seventeen completed manuscripts, two in-progress manuscripts, and six on the table to be written. In addition to all of the below, ( Read more... )

A review of Escapement

Pregnancy Porn: Alien Impregnation In Science Fiction

Wittertainment's code of conduct - For cinemas, where apparently the New Rude is asking other people to stop being rude. ( Read more... )