Bill Ward's blog of all things genre
Last week Howard Andrew Jones stopped by the Adventures in Sci-Fi Publishing podcast and talked about The Desert of Souls, Dabir and Asim, the writing life, Plague of Shadows, selling that first novel, gaming and storytelling, Harold Lamb, unpublished manuscripts, and, of course, Black Gate Magazine. He even managed to talk a bit about dead [...]
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Yesterday over at Grasping for the Wind, John Ottinger posted another of his ‘Inside the Blogosphere’ question and answer sessions that poses a book-related question to genre bloggers. The question this time around was ‘If you had to evacuate your house, which five books would you save?’ — a grim notion prompted by John’s own [...]
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Two weeks ago I finished up my three-part interview with Howard Andrew Jones over at Black Gate, and Howard mentioned something about his own childhood experience with D&D that paralleled my own. I’ve talked in the past about how D&D helped geek-forge me into a reader and writer — and I think that’s something a [...]
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Earlier this week, John Ottinger of Grasping for the Wind posted another of his ‘Inside the Blogosphere’ interview series, where he asks fellow book bloggers a question about books or reading and posts everyone’s results. ‘How do you organize your library’ was the question this time around, and John got a lot of terrific responses [...]
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Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast books are among my all-time favorites — lush, weird, and full of unforgettable characters locked in a near-operatic conflict of competing passions and duties. As fans of the series know, Peake’s degenerative illness cut this amazing series short, and quite possibly radically influenced the tenor of the third book, Titus Alone. For [...]
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Over at the big BG today I posted a brief write-up that looks at a relatively new line of chapbook novellas from small press Blackwyrm. Focusing on stories that skew genre conventions, the Blackwyrm line has a lot of personality, and it’s great to see a publisher — whether big or small — taking the [...]
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