Between family, drawing, and my crippling addiction to video games, I leave myself very little time for the simple pleasures of reading. I used to read pretty much any and all scifi and fantasy that was published, but these days I can barely manage to stay ahead of Hugo and Nebula nominations, and catching the eventual […]
I’m boycotting Amazon
Well, it appears as though the dust has finally settled on the Amazon/MacMillan fight this past weekend. I’m not even going to begin to attempt to summarize what happened. You can follow the Google search link I embedded into that first sentence, or check out some blog posts below from some authors whose opinions I […]
Novels and the consumer mentality
There’s been a big to-do on those darn argumentative internets regarding George R. R. Martin’s treatise on how he should be allowed to have his own life and not be forced to simply churn out book after book like some sort of novel-writing automat. Several notable authors have hopped onto the bandwagon to defend Martin’s […]
Is this what Monday mornings are like for scifi writers?
In keeping with the disappointing scifi discussion I started last week, my feed updated this morning with a painfully dreadful post on the scifi/fantasy novelists blog from David B. Coe. In it, Coe talks about what it’s like to be a midlist author. I’m not really going anywhere with this post. I have a book to […]
I am a poor excuse for a fan of science fiction
So, nominees for the Hugo awards have been announced. Here’s my thoughts: Nominees for Best Novel The Yiddish Policemen’s Union Michael Chabon (I haven’t read this one yet) Brasyl Ian McDonald (haven’t gotten to this one, either) Rollback Robert J. Sawyer (nope, haven’t read it) The Last Colony John Scalzi (I’ve read Old Man’s War […]