Category: Weblogs
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I Have Joined the Pod People
I have left the silent era and entered the world of podcasting. Rob Wolf interviewed me for his New Books in Science Fiction and Fantasy podcast. You can go here to listen to me talk about A Darkling Sea, Aztecs, why roleplaying games are different from novels, Bone Wars, my obsession with getting stuff right,…
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A Darkling Alumni Magazine
The University of Chicago magazine Web site has the transcript of an interview with me about A Darkling Sea. Enjoy!
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Invoco Legem Magicarum!
. . . as Mandrake the Magician used to say. Kinetic fantasy author Max Gladstone wrote an interesting post about "Magic Systems and the Wizardsroman" on his own blog. He's interested in the connections between story and How Magic Works (that is, how the fictional magic operates within a fantasy story), and it started me…
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A Video Review and an Interview
Here's a nifty video review of Darkling Sea, courtesy of SFReviews.net. And if watching videos isn't what you want to do today, here's a print interview at Space Review.
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The Show Goes On!
The Book Event at Towne Book Center in Collegeville, Pennsylvania is set for this Saturday, April 5, at 3 p.m. Originally scheduled for early February, this Event had to get moved because of heavy snow. But now that the weather has improved from Utterly Horrid to Merely Unpleasant, the Event is back on! Come see…
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An Event And An Interview
On Sunday, March 30, I'll join Brian Staveley and Ramona Wheeler for another joint Book Event at Flights of Fantasy Books and Games in Albany, New York. It all happens at 2 p.m. and everyone is welcome. If you haven't read enough interviews with me about A Darkling Sea, be sure to check out Andrew…
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Promotional Round-Up
A little housekeeping here. I'll be a guest at Lunacon in Rye, New York this coming weekend (March 14-16). If you're in the area, come and hear me talk about games, time travel, and Gravity, among other topics. You can also hear some expert science discussion by Dr. Diane A. Kelly. March 30 I'll join Brian…
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A Darkling Sea — The Musical!
Despite having written a guest blog post about who I'd like to see in a movie version of A Darkling Sea, I'm pretty certain that it's one book which will never be filmed. As I pointed out in the blog post, it's about the most unfilmable novel ever written. Most of it takes place in…
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More Guest Blog Action!
Here are a couple more guest-blog posts. At My Book, The Movie I give my imaginary cast for the entirely hypothetical film version of A Darkling Sea. At The Qwillery I've got a guest post about sexifying monsters in fiction and film. Don't worry, it's safe for work.
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Guest Blog Round-Up!
As part of the process of letting readers know about my new book, I've been doing a lot of guest blogging. It's been fun, and I trust the 'blog-reading public aren't getting sick of hearing from me. Here's my 'blog tour, so far: For the Tor/Forge 'blog I wrote about building Ilmatar. For Lawrence Schoen's…
The Cambias Digression 