You know you’ve made it as a writer… when parents borrow a name you made up to give to their kid! That’s exactly what this adorable little girl’s parents did — meet Aurora Ulyssandra (ok, ok, so it’s just the middle name that’s from The Night Angel Trilogy, but still!): Now, those are what I [...]
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Writing Advice: Character Building
Rightly or wrongly, my character building is often hailed as one of my greatest strengths in my writing. If you click here, I reveal ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING about how I do what I do. If you read this post, you will probably become a better writer than I am.* *This post contains pos-alutely, absa-tively, zero percent [...]
How to Read Perfect Shadow… without an e-Reader
Ok, I have to admit the title of this post is misleading. The truth is you do need an e-reader — just not a physical one. If you own a PC, a Mac, an iPad, an iPhone, a BlackBerry, or an Android phone… you can get an e-reader app for free. And once you’ve got [...]
GraphicAudio version of Perfect Shadow coming
Those of you who know and love GraphicAudio’s work on The Night Angel Trilogy and The Black Prism, rejoice: they’re also producing Perfect Shadow. And here’s the cover art by Jahbulani Ori, who goes by Jahbu: (Click to embiggen and see without text.) It will be released on June 3rd. And I’m super happy to announce [...]
FOUR IVAN DRAGOS AND ROCKY IV / THE DAVID GEMMELL LEGEND AWARD
Baby Snaga. Baaaaaabyyyyyyy Snaga. I got you in my sights. I see you. Over there. Looking sharp. And beautiful. And shiny. And…. Miniature. Baby Snaga is the award for the also-rans. It’s a reward for the writers who are good enough to get into the finalist circle, but not brawny enough to take Papa Snaga [...]
Writing Advice Update: World-Building
In my continuing quest to rid the world of poor world… building… wait, does that make any sense at all?… I am posting yet another brief essay in response to your questions about, well, yeah, World Building. So, if you care what I have to say about writing in general and world building in particular [...]
Perfect Shadow Cover & Release Date
Today Orbit has unveiled the cover art and announced the release date for Perfect Shadow. (Hint: June!) You can check out their full post here. We’ve been working hard to make this available to all my fans simultaneously (see, Australia, I’m not forgettin’ you guys) and found out that if we pull it off, this will [...]
Upcoming Apparatings…er… Appearances
Ready your portkeys! 2011 April 19: Pacific Northwest Reading Series — Portland, OR August 17-21: World Science Fiction Convention — Reno, NV September 2-5: DragonCon — Atlanta, GA October 27-30: World Fantasy Convention — San Diego, CA Others TBA 2012 January 20-22: Epic ConFusion — Troy, MI
Writing Advice Update: An Education
My favorite holiday is here! No, not tax day. April Fool’s Day! And that means another update for the Writing Advice page. Though I thought about not posting as an April Fool’s Day joke, I decided that might not go over well. Though I’ll be honest, this month the first snuck up on me, so [...]
Drinks with your favorite author(s)! — April 19th, 7pm
I’m delighted that I’ve been asked to join McMenamins and the SFWA as the host for the first in a cool new series of talks, helping foster the SFF community in the Portland area. On April 19 at 7:00pm, I will be hosting great Northwest authors Jay Lake and Kay Kenyon at the McMenamins Kennedy School. Jay [...]
