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 […]
Maybe I Could Feeze Myself
So my publisher, Del Rey Books, aka Random House, has decided on a schedule to release the three books they bought from me. They had originally said they were looking into publishing in fall of ’08. Fall of ’08 is a LONG time away, when you sell your books in June of ’07, I thought, […]
Super-fun Number 1 Tattoo Man Kill Many Demon!
Got an offer for hundreds of thousands (of yen) for the first book of the Painted Man series today. It’s not huge compared to the Western offers, but it is apparently quite sizeable for Japan. I know the Japanese tend to be much more literal in their book titles than Americans, and it winds up […]
There, but for Grace…
So as I mentioned, the publisher wants to change the name of my book. I really like the title The Painted Man. Honestly, I think it is the best title for the story I have written. But the publisher’s point, which I will concede, if not like, is that the title is a marketing tool […]
This Book is Going to be Five Million Pages
Fucking Jardir.I’m hard at work on the sequel to The Painted Man (soon to be named something else), and it keeps growing. Even as the first book sells all over the Western world, there is universal agreement on one thing: It is a fucking brick. 565 double-spaced pages in MS Word.Your average novel by a […]