When the fine folks at Red Room were kind enough to list me as their Rising Star for the week, I tried to think of something intelligent, witty and wise to post in support of the claim. And then, er, I got walloped by a cold. A bad one. The downside of a bad cold, […]

I’m in the midst of trying to get caught up on some work, but I wanted to briefly mention something I just ran into over at Pat Rothfuss’s blog–he’s posted an interview he did with the Liquid Weird podcast about writing, gaming, and philosophy (specifically Diogenes–he can say what he likes, but I think he […]

Let’s admit it: fantasy authors love trilogies. It’s kind of hardwired into us, a sort of genetic predilection to multiple books, and for a number of years everyone’s been reasonably comfortable with the state of things. Part of it’s historical; the towering works in our field, Tolkien’s most notably, came in that threefold form, and […]

I’m fully prepared to acknowledge that I’m way, way late to this party, so a lot of this is basically closing the barn door after the horse has gotten out (and won the Kentucky Derby and had grandkids and settled down to a nice relaxing retirement on a farm somewhere. That’s about how late we’re […]

I’ve only now had the chance to post my report on Days Three and Four of GenCon…long drives and short sleep will do that to you, I find. But better late than never, so here goes: Saturday brought a panel on the small press, on which I presented–and we had a good turnout, particularly considering […]

I’ve been running around so much I haven’t had time to post before now, but I’m at least keeping my promise to give you an update at some point. We got here on Wednesday night (I suggest getting a four day pass if you can afford the time and cost, as there is a lot […]

I’m off to GenCon for the next week or so–I’ll try to post an update while I’m there, but if you’re in the area make sure to stop by the small press panel, where my editor and I will be (I’m not on this panel, but will definitely be in attendance, so please look me […]

Fantasy authors are deeply afraid of cliches. Or, more accurately, fantasy authors are deeply conflicted about them, either incapable of not using them or desperate not to use anything like them. Take a quick Google trip around the Internet and you’ll find any number of cliches to avoid like the plague: 1. Any combination of […]

Just a quick announcement that our show Upon Further Review just interviewed James Patrick Kelly, Hugo and Nebula award winning science fiction author, in Episode 61. Jim is not only an extraordinarily important figure in speculative fiction, he’s also an extremely generous one, and a very interesting listen to boot. You can find his site […]