It was with great shock and sadness that I learned this morning that one of the giants of fantasy literature died yesterday, after a 2 year bout with debilitating disease.
I had been following his struggle with amyloidosis on his blog for some time, but it seemed he was doing well in fighting off the disease, [...]
R.I.P. Robert Jordan, 1948-2007
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Free Agent
So I did it.
On Thursday, I signed my contracts with Voyager, the Fantasy imprint of Harper Collins UK, which, in conjucntion with the contracts I signed a couple months ago with Del Rey (Random House) and Hayakawa in Japan, and two weeks ago with Bragelonne in France, ensures that I will have enough guaranteed money [...]
Six Word Stories
The ever-lovely Dani sent me this Wired article on Six Word Stories yesterday. I thought it was neat.
The following excerpt gives the gist:
Hemingway once wrote a story in just six words (”For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”) and is said to have called it his best work. So we asked sci-fi, fantasy, and horror writers [...]
Books!
For the last 18 months or so, I have had very little reading time. I spent my commute and lucnh hours writing on my phone, and my evenings writing on my desktop. When I couldn’t get a seat on the subway, I just read comics, because they were low-commitment, and I could drop them quick [...]