Vocabuvores and Ginger Scalds
A few months ago, José Luiz F. Cardoso conjured D&D3 / Pathfinder compatible stats for the vocabuvores from “In the Stacks” at his blog, Tower of the Lonely GM. My lovely better half noticed this,...
View ArticleFailure Isn’t Forever, and the Man Who Wasn’t There.
One of the things in the air following the recent Readercon creeper mess is women writing about their own sexual harassment experiences at conventions, so often with codas of: “I should have been...
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I Have Made eBooks!
QUEEN OF THE IRON SANDS rolls on, with the beginning of Chapter 8: Across Savage Mars now available! I’ll post the next two installments this week. Also, for the first time ever, I have made eBooks!...
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I will be your dancing monkey, hat on the table.
So this is the post where I set out the hat and ask for some help. Queen of the Iron Sands has always been free to read and supported by free-will donations, and over the years some very sweet people...
View ArticleHope the monkey has his dancing shoes ready…
Some time today, by Crom, that stupid misplaced search box is going down. I’ve received some good suggestions from commenters and I’m going to apply them until either it or me has been vanquished....
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My Embarrassing Juvenilia, Part One of Several
I’m back home in Wisconsin, and more or less well, and upright and functional again after getting savagely whiplashed by that damned virus I brought with me… chills! Shaking fits! Lassitude! Sweating...
View ArticleMy Chicago Worldcon Schedule
I’ll be on three panels, as well as attending the Hugo Awards ceremony. This will be my first Worldcon. My panels are: Friday, August 31 VIOLENCE IN FANTASY 10:30 AM, Wright: Silver West The use and...
View ArticleMemory, Sorrow, and Mars
What a week or two it’s been. Technology has made me its chew toy several times over, and I’ve been smacked in the face by piping-hot anxiety attacks fresh from the neurological oven. On the bright...
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Now Begins Operation Jay
At this time, I am declaring Operation Steve and Emma to be a resounding success; thanks to your astounding generosity (and to the fact that those two have spent decades engendering warm feelings...
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My Embarrassing Juvenilia: THE MUTT
Our tour of my embarrassing juvenilia, promised as a “reward” for your assistance (oh, you poor goddamn people) in Operation Steve and Emma, continues! This week… just what was the Terrible Secret of...
View ArticleTHE REPUBLIC OF THIEVES
Hopefully, if you’re reading this, you now know that the semi-mythical beast known as The Republic of Thieves has at last been captured in the wild and given official release dates: October 8th in the...
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These Maps Are Not the Territory…
So, as promised, here are a few scanned maps from Ye Olden Days (2002-03) when what would eventually become The Lies of Locke Lamora was in what you might call active gestation… but damn, there was so...
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Updates From Scruffy Author Country
Yep, that’s who’s scruffy-lookin’. I am at Minicon 48 this weekend, along with my girlfriend, the lovely and talented Elizabeth Bear. We’re reading on Sunday, Bear at 12:00 PM and Lynch at 1:00 PM, in...
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An Excerpt from “The Effigy Engine”
In the five-year span from 2008 to 2012, inclusive, I managed to stumble through severe depression and anxiety attacks to turn in just two actual professional paying gigs, both short stories. It was a...
View ArticleFEARSOME JOURNEYS LAUNCH AND CONTEST
It’s launch day for FEARSOME JOURNEYS, the Solaris Book of New Fantasy, and you can pick it up from Amazon or from Barnes & Noble or directly from Solaris/Simon & Schuster. You can also enter a...
View ArticleThe Lies of Locke Lamora Read-Along Commentary
This morning I registered for a Tumblr, under the misapprehension that this would allow me to quickly and easily leave comments on other Tumblrs, specifically the ones holding discussions about the...
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More Amazing Coolness! Statement on Fanfic and Other Forms of Fan Art.
Milena Aijala, known on Tumblr as qwertyprophecy, recently finished creating an animated credits sequence for an imaginary Gentlemen Bastards television series. If you haven’t seen it, do follow that...
View ArticleBeing good can be a shortcut. There is no shortcut to being good.
The give-and-take with the audience at any bookstore or convention appearance I make usually comes around sooner or later to the topic of publication. How to get published, how to stay published, what...
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Commencement of the Snoopy Dance
Monday, 17th of June 2013. This morning my editor in London found these waiting on his desk.
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Mighty Mouse is a cartoon. Superman’s a real guy.
CAUTION: This review does not merely contain spoilers. It is constructed from solid Spoilerium. ***** So, Man of Steel. Saw it on Friday with my favorite actual Kryptonian, Elizabeth Bear, who wrote...
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