I have two pieces of business to share, and they are both awesome.

Tor.com, the website and blog for genre fiction powerhouse Tor Books, has posted Chapter Two ofGeekomancy to help spread the word:

http://www.tor.com/stories/2012/07/geekomancy-excerpt

And secondly, this Tuesday I got a box from Simon & Schuster containing an awesome surprise:


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 Excited, if somewhat raw thoughts on Reality is Broken: 

I just finished reading Jeff VanderMeer's Finch. Damn, that was a good book. I'm kind of sad I didn't read Shriek: An Afterword first, but that just means sometime I get to re-read City of Saints and Madmen, pick up Shriek, then re-read Finch with all the awesome fresh in my brain.

Also, reading Finch makes me want to do tons of re-writes to ( Read more... )

New review up at 21st Century Geeks: http://geektheory.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/review-kraken-by-china-mieville/

Today is the pub date for The Machinery of Light, third and final installment of the melt-your-brain military sf with mecha and awesome hackers and rad neo-futuristic cyberpunk Autumn Rain trilogy (following The Mirrored Heavens and The Burning Skies.  The book was penned by my friend and Clarion West classmate David J. Williams, who is an awesome ( Read more... )

Having spent most of a week in Iowa, I have this to say:
( Five things about Iowa )

This blog post is a reaction to an essay by Charles Stross, noted Science Fiction author (of whom I am a big fan).

http://geektheory.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/why-charles-stross-hates-star-trek-and-why-i-dont/

Today marks the beginning of the 2009 Clarion West workshop, and therefore the 2009 Clarion West Write-a-Thon.

Friend and writing colleague akashiver is attending Clarion West this year, and has been instructed to post so that other CW alums can live vicariously through her ( Read more... )

My next writing project is going to be a YA fantasy (in the Skyworld setting, the same as The Sinking of Quloo, The Coming of the Change, Three Loves For Horue). It was originally going to use a grad school metaphor, but I decided it's probably more saleable as YA (the number of people who identify with teenagers having drama in a high-school ( Read more... )

My review of China Mieville's upcoming fantasy The City and the City is up at 21st Century Geeks.