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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…
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On the Road, Week 2
The A Darkling Sea book tour continues! I and my two colleagues Brian Staveley and Ramona Wheeler will be reading, answering questions, and signing books at the following locations. Tuesday, February 11, 7 p.m.: RiverRun Bookstore, Portsmouth NH. Thursday, February 13, 7 p.m.: Harvard Coop Bookstore, Cambridge MA. Friday, February 14, 7 p.m.: I'll be…
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On the Road, Week 1
UPDATE: The Towne Book Center signing in Collegeville PA has been cancelled due to snow. I'll let everyone know when it's rescheduled. Now that A Darkling Sea is in stores, I'm hitting the road to promote it. Tor Books has put together a little traveling carnival, consisting of me, fantasy author Brian Staveley (The Emperor's Blades),…
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Darkling Sea Review Roundup!
A Darkling Sea is in the stores, on the shelves — and in the clutches of reviewers. They have been quite positive, though. We've already heard from the Big Three, but now various bloggers and free-lance critics are weighing in. Annalee Newitz gave it a favorable review on NPR. SF Crowsnest has a nice writeup…
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A New Blog
The United Nations Interstellar Cooperation Agency has a new blog devoted to their Ilmatar interstellar mission. Check it out here. There's also a link to a site with some cool HENRI KERLEREC merchandise.
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Arisia 2014 — Featuring ME!
This coming weekend I'm off to romantic Boston for the Arisia 2014 convention at the largely parasite-free Westin Hotel. If you want to stop by and see me, here's my schedule. Friday, 10:00 P.M.: Military SF: When Diplomacy Fails A panel on military SF, moderated by Alexander Jablokov, with me, Debra Doyle, Dennis McCunney, and…
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The Lost Age of Romance
What do James Bond, Don Quixote, and steampunk fiction have in common? I was talking with one of my kids about Don Quixote, and something struck me. In Cervantes's novel, the elderly Quixote is a Spanish gentleman whose wits become addled from reading too many romances of chivalry. He begins to think of himself as…
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How to Authorify, Part 2
A Darkling Sea sat on my disk drive until 2012, when two things happened. The first was that David Hartwell invited me to his Hard SF Minicon in Westport, New York — chronicled here. That was a very entertaining weekend and gave me the opportunity to meet Gregory Benford in person. Mr. Benford apparently enjoyed…
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How To Authorify, Part 1
I may have mentioned that I have a book coming out. Some readers may be interested in finding out how one gets to the point of having a book coming out. For aspiring writers who want to know how it works, or interested bystanders, here's what happened. I started to write A Darkling Sea around 1998,…
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