Last night I had occasion to send an email to Spider Robinson, thanking him for his recent book Variable Star, a posthumous collaboration with Robert A. Heinlein. If you are unfamiliar with Spider’s work, or have not read Variable Star, you owe it to yourself to take a gander. All …
As part of my self-education as a writer learning to market his work, I’ve been watching trends in e-books and audiobooks as well as publishing industry trends, and thinking about them in the context of podcasting as an endeavor that takes a lot of passion and commitment from very creative …
Free content – particularly in the audio fiction space – suddenly seems a lot less of a perpetual free lunch than it did six months ago, and it’s got a lot of folks freaking out in my corner of the Internet. Providers are dropping like flies this year! Matthew Wayne …
This post is my first in a dialogue with Scott Roche about whether or not science and religion are truly competing for the same intellectual and spiritual space in the world. Read Scott’s opening post here. Twitter is a mischievous little meme. On that innocent network yesterday, I noticed fellow …
Stopping in quickly during a break in my hectic production and writing schedules to drop a handful of links that have recently blown me away in one way or another. First, the coolest biomedical news this year: Synthetic arteries have arrived. Second, some really cool news on dog evolution from …
The first Triple Threat Contest is now upon us. Your Mission: 1: Download and print these bookmarks. 2: Cut along the dotted lines. 3: Take to your local libraries and bookstores. 4: Leaving a stack near the checkout gets you one point. Put a bunch inside books by Robert A. …
Bay Area Podcasters J. Daniel Sawyer, Chris Lester, and Miss Kalendar will be joined by special guest from New Zealand Philipa Ballantine and new publishing sensation Gail Carriger for an evening of conversation, zany antics, good food, and shop talk. Some other bay area literary personalities may also be in …
The following is the press release regarding Spider Robinson’s current situation. Please take a moment to read it. — — — — Earlier this year a brilliant Vancouver surgeon, Dr. Andresz Busczowski, helped Hugo- and Nebula-winning science fiction writer and zero-gravity dancer/choreographer Jeanne Robinson beat back a rare and virulent …
Those of you who read my blog will have seen my review of Gail Carriger’s Soulless. There was something that I didn’t tell you in that review. When I read Soulless, I was so impressed with it that I offered Gail my services pro bono as a claviger…um…as a production …
Brian Clay has posted a very kind review of Predestination and of Down From Ten, as well as of Philippa Ballantine’s Weather Child and Scott Sigler’s new hardcover release The Rookie (which is, by the by, probably his best work and it’s a gorgeous hardcover). Anyway, Brian has this to …