For people who'd like a peek behind the scenes on Swordspoint: the AudioBook,* I can offer these:

Podcast Interview with producer/director/audio genius Sue Zizza (of SueMedia Productions) & me, on Fred Greenhalgh's Radio Drama Revival--a weekly radio show and podcast featuring "the best of contemporary audio drama (work produced after the golden age ( Read more... )

Told you there was more!

So the Swordspoint crazyweek continues:  On Monday, Fantasy Magazine online reprinted my story "The Swordsman Whose Name was not Death."  This is the first Riverside/Richard & Alec story I wrote after writing Swordspoint (and swearing I would never, no never, write anything more about them!).  It contains the seeds of The ( Read more... )

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Loving everyone's suggestions for cocktails for Swordspoint!

It is, however, hard for me to imagine the actual people on the Hill or Riverside doing mixed drinks.  --Though maybe that's my folly? The whole point of inventing that world was that it was a glorious stew of everything I particularly like.  Maybe I need to spend more time down at Death ( Read more... )

Who would you cast - VOCALLY only, I don't care what they look like - for Richard St Vier, and for the young Alec?

Because my Swordspoint audiobook producer is going the "full-cast audio" route with about 4 scenes from the book: the big set pieces where there are so many characters all talking at once that it seems a shame to make me try to do them ( Read more... )

Wow.  I never knew that's how you pronounce "Justiciar." * *

Yes, yes, I will post it here for you when I'm done!

*I will be reading the Swordspoint audiobook myself, but there may be Extra Actors for some Cool Bits!  Plus, I need to make sure my director knows what's correct, in case I screw up in the heat of the moment.

* * I must have stolen it ( Read more... )

Just got a lovely note from my publisher (who has been, at one time or another, Bantam, Spectra, Bantam/Spectra, or, um, let's see, I think I'm up to Del Rey - no, wait, the note says "Del Rey Spectra" - and, of course, Random House to rule us all.....), saying that the paperback of Swordspoint is going back to press for more copies, because ( Read more... )

Yes, this is the one with my new story, "The Duke of Riverside," in it!

My thanks to editor Ellen Datlow for putting up with my story's length, tardiness and subsequent revisions.  It's a pleasure and an honor to be in such esteemed company, and I can't wait to get home to get my author copy and read all the rest.

If you're in the Boston area, a ( Read more... )

Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy

'"Urban fantasy" is one of those subgenre labels that I've never been quite sure of the meaning of. [....]  But in the case of Naked City, Ellen Datlow's new anthology, the meaning of urban fantasy is quite literal. Each of those twenty tales takes place in a city. The city might be a real one, or fictional; it ( Read more... )

ellen_datlow just sent the authors this delectable advance review from Publishers Weekly:

Naked City: Tales of Urban Fantasy
Edited by Ellen Datlow.. St. Martin's Griffin, $25.99 (560p) ISBN 978-0-312-60431-8; $15.99 trade paper ISBN 978-0-312-38524-8

Datlow (Digital Domains) adds to her already lengthy list of impressive anthology credits with this compilation ( Read more... )