[For one week in July 2009, I took over as a guest blogger at the Electric Velocipede website while editor John Klima was away. This was the second of the four posts I contributed. My prompt was: “What book/author is a guilty pleasure for you?”] Really, any reading I
What do the Spanish flu and spirit photography have in common? The answer is Luke Bryant—a teenage boy in 1921 rural Nebraska, whose life is changed by both. Cast a Cold Eye is a novella Derryl Murphy kindly invited me to work on with him several years ago. It
Does anyone write back-cover copy like this anymore? SUSPENSE ON A RAMPAGE The moment the Interpol agent and his lovely assistants landed in Holland they were in Dutch. He was after a drug ring. Who was after him? First someone killed his contact. Then he ran up against a lethal
Many of you may have heard already, but John Klima has started an online book club dedicated to reading and discussing all twelve volumes of Gene Wolfe's Solar Cycle over the course of this year. I'm one of the board admins, together with Christopher Rowe and
I found myself applauding Timothy Egan's guest column "Typing Without a Clue" from Saturday's New York Times. Not that I, as the author of a "riveting memoir" unsold "after 10 years of toil," feel any bitterness on the topic: The
My distraction of mind of late has been such that I haven't been able to finish reading many novels for a few months now, but for at least a year or two I haven't even attempted to read any novels of doorstop dimensions, finding them far
If you haven't heard already, Paolo Bacigalupi was on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday yesterday discussing his excellent collection from Night Shade Books, Pump Six and Other Stories. Way to go, Paolo!
I guess giving away free ebooks is only news when HarperCollins does it, not Tor or Ace or especially Baen.
Scott Westerfeld gets a great review for his new YA novel Extras this weekend in the New York Times Book Review (currently #2 on the NYT children's chapter books bestseller list): With its combination of high-stakes melodrama, cinematic action and thought-provoking insight into some really thorny questions of
█████ and I were walking Ella the other evening when we ran across a sign indicating a historical landmark. I suppose we hadn't noticed it before because we usually walk Ella down the grassy greenway on the other side of the boulevard's frontage road, not down the
As we unpacked all the books and shelved them, I also LibraryThung them all. (That's the past participle of the verb to LibraryThing.) That is how I know we have nearly 1,200 books in our collection. Not a huge number by some standards, but significantly smaller than
Mattias Adolfsson has posted his full original cover art for my upcoming chapbook in his blog: Great stuff! And John Klima has some nice things to say about both the art and the chapbook itself over at his blog. The chapbook should be coming in about a month's
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