I don’t review many books on the Peephole these days. Part of that is a kind of professional awkwardness. When I was blogging in obscurity, I could say whatever I wanted about a book. Say it fucking sucked, speak ill of the author’s mother, whatever. Alternately, I could gush about how awesome it was like […]
Fun Pictures
A couple of fun pictures have filtered in over the last week or so. Iris in Germany sent in two early submissions to try and win one of the Voyager Desert Spear ARCs, whenever I receive them: This week is “Fasching” in Germany. It’s Carneval. And during the next week i don’t have to go […]
The Daylight War Stage I: The Stepsheet
A lot of people, usually other writers, e-mail me asking questions about my writing process. Love love love to talk process, we writers. I’m not sure where the fascination comes from. I wonder sometimes if it has something to do with all of us feeling insecure. Like deep down, we all feel like we have […]
The Author’s Catch-22
Aidan at A Dribble of Ink essentially retweeted a post from George RR Martin’s “Not a Blog”, wherein Mr. Martin discusses the current state of the long-awaited A Dance With Dragons, and gives some small insight into his creative process. Every time GRRM makes a post like this, there is a ripple through the blogosphere […]