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Announcements, new editions, travel, diving, cooking and the working life of a novelist — 272 entries, all of them here in full.
March 14, 2009 · 430 words
Playing With the Prius
While I’ve been sorting out my car situation, I’ve been renting a Prius. I didn’t ask for one, but Hertz was short on cars that day and gave it to me anyway.I considered a hybrid when I was looking for a car last year, but I decided against it. I live far out in the […]
Read entry →March 14, 2009 · 166 words
Re-Reading Hardwired
I’m quoting here from an email I sent to highly intelligent reader Jason Thomas, about re-reading my own book for the first time in twenty-odd years, this when I had to correct the Night Shade edition. It occurred to me that the things the reader was supposed to find shocking, back when I wrote the […]
Read entry →March 12, 2009 · 86 words
More Happy Internets Praises!
entertheoctopus has reviewed This Is Not a Game.. . . This is a novel that’s truly of the internet age; most of the behind-the-scenes action happening in the pages would have been inconceivable only a decade ago. However, that doesn’t mean that readers have to be familiar with the tech to appreciate the story. This [&h
Read entry →March 9, 2009 · 52 words
Giveaway! Free Me!
Fantasy Book Critic is giving away free copies of This Is Not a Game! Three copies of the British edition, and three copies of the US, will be given to readers on their respective continents. You are required to do nothing more than submit your name and address. Sign up here.
Read entry →March 9, 2009 · 54 words
Unseen Zelazny
NESFA Press has very kindly sent along the Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny, Vols. I and II (of a projected six). There are many stories in here that have never been collected before. And an introduction by me, but never mind. I anticipate nothing but glorious reading pleasure for many days to come.
Read entry →March 9, 2009 · 268 words
Non-Imaginary Conversation
So here’s the conversation I had earlier today:The scene: a wrecking yard. Damaged vehicles lined up in rows. A mobile home for an office. A long line of Hispanic youth waiting to get their cars, along with patient, pain-wracked me. (I had forgotten to take my ibuprofen before running to Albuquerque for errands.)“My wr
Read entry →March 9, 2009 · 1,200 words
Facing Out of the Wind
My Saturday was memorable in any number of ways.There was a signing in Albuquerque with half the writers in New Mexico (and one from Colorado), so I thought I’d drop by and say hi. After which I was scheduled to spend the evening at the American Kenpo Karate Academy award banquet.I never did make it […]
Read entry →March 8, 2009 · 242 words
Crazed Victorian Explorer Finds Lost Civilization in Amazon
In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett ventured into the Amazon, vowing to make one of the most important archeological discoveries in history. He was searching for an ancient civilization, which he had named, simply, the City of Z . . . Fawcett had warned that no one should follow in his wake [
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