The random number generator has spoken, and the winner of a signed copy of either Libriomancer or Unbound is...

kay_gmdPlease email me via my website contact form. I will be passing this email on to Jim, so he can determine which book you want and make sure you get the right inscription ( Read more... )

This past Tuesday was the release of Unbound, the latest exciting adventure in Jim Hines's Libriomancer series. Jim is a good friend and a fellow DAW author, and I love his stuff. So ( Read more... )

I am pleased to announce that my first non-fiction book, consisting of essays taken from my various blogs and poetry from my two self-published chapbooks (Leaves From the Babylon Wood and Pathways Through the Babylon Wood, both of which are loooooooooong out of print) is available now from NESFA Press.

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corucia, you are the winner of a shiny new autographed copy of Jim Hines's Codex BornPlease email me via my website contact form inside of the next 24 hours. I will pass your mailing information on to Jim, and a glorious gift will appear in your mail within the next ten days! If I do not hear from you, I will sadly have to select a new winner ( Read more... )

My dearly beloved friend Jim Hines (http://www.jimchines.com/) has a new book out today: Codex Born, the sequel to Libriomancer. The magic of books has never been so real, or so incredibly dangerous ( Read more... )

Earlier this week, The Guardian published a list of what they viewed as the twenty best young novelists in genre fiction. It's a pretty good list, and I'm awed and delighted to appear on it ( Read more... )

The John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer is currently open for voting! This award uses the same nomination and voting mechanism as the Hugos, even though the Campbell Award is not a Hugo, and will be presented this year in Chicago, during the Hugo Awards Ceremony. Having been on the Campbell ballot in 2010, I can testify that it is a huge, ( Read more... )

The odds are decent that you've seen this by now, if you were online at all this past weekend. But since I'm going to be posting about the Hugos a bit this week, I thought it might be kind of me to put the whole ballot up here for people to review. If you don't need to know, don't click the cut. Life is simple ( Read more... )

I missed the SF SqueeCast's Awkward Episode-although you don't have to; you can listen to it, and all the awkwardness, here-and that made me Very Sad. This was the episode for saying awesome things about each other, which is something that, well. It's socially awkward, and hard to do. We feel weird sometimes, being overly positive about our ( Read more... )

Point the first: If you are a member of Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, who joined before January 31, 2012, you are eligible to submit a nomination ballot for the 2012 Hugo Awards. The nomination deadline is now less than a month away. Please, please, consider nominating for the Hugos if you are eligible to do so. (Note: ( Read more... )