Yesterday, I finished the chapter I wanted to have done by the end of the month. It's gone back and forth from being referred to as "chapter 14" and "chapter 13" multiple times. Currently, it's chapter 14 again, because I realized there was an additional scene I needed to insert earlier in the story. That earlier scene isn't written yet, and I don' ( Read more... )

I haven't been much for posting lately, mostly due to busy-ness (work, my novel, my new writing class). But I have been reading on line. And I've noticed a trend lately of dissing e-books in comparison to paper books ( Read more... )

What I just got done reading: Fluency, by Jennifer Foehner Wells. Finished. Wasn't into it.

What I'm reading now: Paradox: Stories Inspired by the Fermi Paradox, by various authors ( Read more... )

What I just got done reading: I have an assignment in my writing class to read ten short stories in publications and/or the genre I want to write in. I will probably post story reviews after I turn in the assignment, but publications/online venues I've been looking at include Analog Science Fiction & Fact, Apex Magazine, Clarkesworld Magazine, ( Read more... )

"Can't an astronaut wreak a little havoc without there being an alien involved?"

Still reading Fluency by Jennifer Foehner Wells, which got 4.3 out of 5 stars on Amazon with 1,115 raters. Honestly, I am not sure how it got that rating. The story was pretty good up to the point where ( spoilery for Wells, AC Clarke, J.S.A. Corey )

Been meaning to do this meme for a while.

What I just got done reading: I've been searching for books to fill my "realistic solar system exploration" story kink, and there aren't a lot of them. I read James SA Corey's Expanse series, of course, and Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars series. Alas, searching book lists for novels featuring specifically ( Read more... )

(1) I am reading stuff. But it's all trashy true crime, so, we'll skip that part ( Read more... )

I've done a few posts about James SA Corey's Expanse novel series, which is being turned into a 10-episode series on Syfy ( Read more... )

Just finished/Reading now:

Green Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson
Blue Mars, Kim Stanley Robinson: this series is beautifully written, if a tad rambling. It's interesting seeing Robinson show his equally comprehensive knowledge of biology and ecology now that Mars is being terraformed and the Martian humans are visiting Earth. Still, this guy can spend ( Read more... )

Spoiler warning: Skin Game (The Dresden Files)

A while back, I posted an angst about point of view and the pacing of information reveals in my novel. My novel is, at its core, a mystery. The answers to the mystery gradually unfold for the reader as the protagonists investigate and make discoveries. In the first draft, I set a major "reveal" ( Read more... )