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If The Miranda Conspiracy Was A Movie
Marshal Zeringue's Web site "My Book, The Movie" asks authors to imagine their books as films and pick actors for the lead roles. It's a fun question to answer — sometimes I know exactly who to cast, because I pictured a specific actor when writing the piece. And sometimes I have to go on a…
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The Page 69 Test
Marshal Zeringue's "Page 69 Test" blog asks writers a simple question: what does one random page say about your book? He always picks the same one (presumably with help from Bill & Ted) but one could use a random number generator and come up with a custom version for every new book. Anyway, he asked…
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Unboxed!
My author copies of The Miranda Conspiracy arrived today — which implies they've also arrived at your Friendly Neighborhood Book Store and the Amazon warehouses. Now's your chance to get one! Or more!
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Miranda Conspiracy Interview With Paul Semel
I did an email interview with Paul Semel, a noted reviewer and critic of games, media, and fiction. It's pretty interesting, and fills in some of the behind-the-scenes maneuvering that led to the Billion Worlds and the oddly out-of-sequence nature of that sequence. You can read the interview here. For visual interest, I asked Midjourney…
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Boskone is Coming! Boskone is Coming!
Mid-February brings blizzards, Valentines . . . and Boskone! On February 14-16 I'll be at the fabulous Westin Boston Seaport District hotel for New England's oldest science fiction convention. This year they're keeping me busy, which is great because The Miranda Conspiracy should just be hitting the bookstore shelves. Here's my schedule, and when I'm…
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Music Theory
A while back I bought a set of CDs of all nine symphonies by Ludwig Van Beethoven. On long solo car trips I can now listen to them instead of trying to find a radio station which won't fade out after ten miles. I know — welcome to the 1990s. That's not the point. As…
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Arisia!
Boston's big January SF convention, ARISIA, is coming up in two weeks, over the weekend of January 17-20 at the fabulous Hyatt Regency Cambridge (a.k.a. "The Ziggurat"), just next door to M.I.T. As always, I'll be there. If you want to drop by, here's my schedule. Saturday, January 18, 12:30 p.m. — Reading: Stop by…
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Ho Ho Ho
It's Christmas Eve afternoon as I write, which means it's time to click on the NORAD Santa Tracker to keep tabs on St. Nick's whereabouts. If you're in the Western Hemisphere there's still time to be good. Barely. Christmas Day is also the first night of Hanukkah, so light 'em if you've got 'em —…
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New Baen Anthology: DEPTH CHARGE
I just got my comp copies of the new Baen Books anthology DEPTH CHARGE, edited by Hank Davis and Jamie Ibson. It's a collection of short science fiction stories set in undersea environments. Obviously, if they're sending me copies it means I've got a story in the book — in this case, "The Ocean of…
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My PhilCon 2024 Schedule
In two weeks I'll be driving down to Cherry Hill, New Jersey, home of PhilCon 2024, the Philadelphia area's longest-running science fiction convention. This year it runs from November 22 through 24, and I've got events all three days. Friday, November 22, 8:00 p.m.: Let's Design a New SF Television Show! — A panel of…
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