Author: eidolon

Bitter Seeds Audiobook & A Pop-Cultural Interview

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Hurrah!  The audiobook version of Bitter Seeds is now available from Audible.com!  The narrator, Kevin Pariseau, did a terrific job.  And I have to admit he surprised me with how closely he had read the novel, when it came to the details of how various characters spoke.  We had an email conversation about Marsh and Will, and Kevin actually reminded me of a detail I’d forgotten.  Yowsers!

And, unlike me, Kevin can actually do accents and different voices.  So if you’re curious about how the novel is supposed to sound, check it out.

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Remarks Delivered at the 34th Annual Williamson Lectureship

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This past spring, I had the distinct pleasure of being the Guest of Honor for the 34th Annual Jack Williamson Lectureship at Eastern New Mexico University.  The theme of this year’s Lectureship was Science Fantasy: Into the Next Decade.  I did my best to deliver some thoughtful remarks on that theme.  Nobody threw anything at me, which I take as a sign that my talk went better than I’d expected.

Anyway, several people have asked me to post my GoH talk.  It took me 4 months to do this, but the talk is finally up on the words page.

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Research Materials

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Over on her blog recently, Susan Dennard has been giving some thought to one of the heaviest of writerly burdens: research.  Since she’s written her own historical spec-fic novels, it’s a topic to which she has given a fair bit of thought.  (Her posts are a good primer for folks who find themselves contemplating a project that requires its own research, but who haven’t done something like that for a while, or who don’t know how to tackle it.)

Believe it or not, the Milkweed books required a bit of research.  (It’s true!  People even ask me about this from time to time.)  So this is a topic of no small interest to me.

Meanwhile, in a completely unrelated turn of events, I bought a new camera this weekend.  And find myself completely incapable of using it effectively.  (Big surprise).  So I thought it would be fun to post a few photos of the bookshelf where I kept many of my research materials while working on the Milkweed Triptych.

Below the cut: blurry photos and puppet robots.

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Interview at Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist

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As part of his obligation from losing a wager with George R. R. Martin, Patrick of the venerable Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist recently read and reviewed Bitter Seeds.   (Have to say, I kinda liked the part where he called it the speculative fiction debut of the year.)

Patrick contacted me a couple of weeks ago (again through GRRM; thanks, George!) to inquire about doing an interview.  He asked some very thoughtful questions, and I did my best to give him thoughtful answers.  So, while it took longer than either of us expected, the end result is a Q & A that we both feel is pretty strong.

The interview is posted here.

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