So I leave on Saturday for an exciting two-week adventure that will take me halfway around the world and back, as I pay my first visit down under to Australia, or as it is affectionately known as, Oz. My first readers were in Australia, as by some twist of fate, the Painted Man ARCs came […]
Live Chat with Terry Brooks This Wednesday
I am a big Terry Brooks fan. I’ve said it before. I’ve said it more than once. I’ve said it several times, in fact. If Tolkien is the grandfather of modern fantasy, Terry Brooks is my awesomely cool uncle. When I was a kid, Tolkien, specifically The Hobbit, aroused my interest in fantasy, but it […]
Forum Testers Wanted
Hi, this is Peat’s friend and webmaster David here. Over the past few weeks, Peat and I have been working on a prototype version of a forum for this site. We’ve decided that it’s finally ready for beta testers. What we’re releasing today is an imperfect work, with the idea being for it to be […]
I’m a Functional Nerd
A couple of months ago I attended Balticon, and at a live recording of the podcast I Should be Writing (which I will be appearing on soon), I met John Anealio of Scifisongs.blogspot.com, who has an SF/tech podcast of his own called The Functional Nerds with writer Patrick Hester. Earlier this week they had me […]
iPad Writing, 2.1
I know what you’re thinking. “Two blog posts in one day? Oh, no he din’t!” But yeah, I did. Even after whining in my last post about how I needed to limit my blogging, I was writing an e-mail to someone and it got me on a rant. Been using the iPad a lot lately […]