Gene Wolfe coined the term ‘golden book’ to refer to a book that utterly opens up your head, stirs around your brain, and changes how you look at the world — I think it was singular in his coining, the one book that changes you, but I think many of us have several over the [...]
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Yet again, I have to start a full rewrite before finishing the first draft. This is unusual for me–I like to get to the end before doing major revisions. But all of a sudden PLOT showed up in the book, so what can I do? The good news is that this is a much less [...]
I really like to plow straight through the first draft, however often the plot suddenly turns on itself and surprises me, figuring to fix it in the rewrite. Sometimes, however, there are just too many unexpected changes, and I have to stop and get things in line before I got on. Iorich just did that, [...]
Matthew Klahn was the 17th entry. Thank you to all who offered. (Now I have to read the thing, and I hope get some of the answers I need for the my next project).
Just wanted to mention that I still haven’t gotten 17 emails. A signed personalized copy of Jhegaala will go to the 17th person who offers to send me a copy of Colin Turnbull’s The Forest People.
I’m running a small contest here. Two prizes, both of them signed and personalized copies of Jhegaala (now that I have my copies). One copy will go to the seventeenth person (only one entry per person) to email me offering to send me a copy of The Forest People by Colin Turnbull. I know there [...]
…that Steve is too shy to tell you about himself — Jhegaala‘s first printing has already sold out and gone to reprints. p.s. Watch Dr. Horrible today. Tell your friends. Correction: PNH very nicely wrote to me to say that what has happened is that actually orders from bookstores exceeded the initial amount printed, and [...]
I now have a copy of Jhegaala. The cover is lovely, and the graphic representation of the Cycle came out great. My thanks to Steve Hickman, Silver Croft, and Tor production. The copy is signed. The person to whom I signed it Knows Who He Is. Now I just need his address and I can [...]
…patting himself on the back. Jon Lincicum, on the Dragaera listserve, said this: “I am convinced that if Steve had written the Bible, it would not contain the words ‘God’ or ‘Jesus’, and while Moses might get mentioned, he would only ever appear offstage.” Heh heh heh
Okay, check this out: Toby Buckell: You go, dude! The sort of blatant, obnoxious racism displayed by the editor of Helix makes me, as Bear says, ashamed for my genre. Hypocrisy would be an improvement, because at least it would indicate some degree of embarrassment for attitudes and beliefs that no one today should be [...]