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Progress report, and thank-you

May 8th, 2010 · 47 Comments

I’m on the last chapter of Tiassa, and I want to take a moment to thank Alexx Kay for his timeline, Mark Mandel for Cracks and Shards, and everyone who has been maintaining the Dragaera Wiki; these resources have been especially useful over the last couple of days.

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Another Tiassa Update

March 1st, 2010 · 159 Comments

After several conversations with Reesa, what I think is the last chunk of Tiassa has fallen into place well enough that I can see where I’m going.  I think.  Maybe.  For the moment.  So I believe I’m on track to finish it.   I have noticed that, with each of the last several books, I have [...]

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*Headsmack*

February 20th, 2010 · 82 Comments

Today I was at a Borders looking for Poker Pro magazine (on account of I’m in it, how cool is that?).  While there, I, as usual, checked the sf section to see how well represented I was.  I skimmed past the row Jim Butcher, found the row of Lois Bujold, and there I was.  Two [...]

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Iorich – Spoilers

January 6th, 2010 · 203 Comments

Place to discuss Your Itch.

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Tiassa Update

November 27th, 2009 · 6 Comments

It’s been pointed out to me that I’ve been slacking off on giving progress reports.
Tiassa is being difficult.  Between conversations with Reesa and with Neil, I’ve been convinced to try something a bit challenging.  I think it’s going to be really cool if it works, but at the moment I’m beating my head against it [...]

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Woohoo!

August 21st, 2009 · 10 Comments

It seems that Cory Doctorow likes my book.  I am happy.  Praise from Caesar is praise indeed, as some Hungarian once said.

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Dark fantasy recommendations, please

July 3rd, 2009 · 83 Comments

A friend just asked me to recommend some dark fantasy, and I realized that, with the exception of anything by Tim Powers, I don’t know much about it.  You can argue about what “Dark Fantasy” means, if you wish*, but also throw in some reading suggestions.  Thanks!
*One friend recently explained, “If I like it, it’s [...]

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Vlad novels – Spoilers – Part 2

June 25th, 2009 · 98 Comments

Topic started by request.  I’m about a third of the way through the first draft of Tiassa.  Or, as I affectionately call it, Hadassah.
– Hadizsákmányapa

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A Walking Tour of the Shambles by Neil Gaiman & Gene Wolfe

June 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments

I hope you’ve read Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino.  If not, go read it.  If you have, imagine stopping at one of those cities and finding the weirdest, darkest little area in it.  Then imagine a description of that area by Gaiman and Wolfe.  That the city in this case happens to be Chicago is [...]

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Great moments in literature

April 8th, 2009 · 88 Comments

1. In This Immortal, by Zelazny, when Conrad says, “Feathers or Lead?”
2. In Twenty Years After, by Dumas, when M. de Beaufort removes the poniard from the pie and says, “I hold one of these poniards to La Remee’s heart and say to him, ‘My friend, I am truly distressed, but if you make any [...]

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