Author: eidolon

Suicide Kings, the final volume of the Wild Cards “Committee Triad”, will be hitting shelves this December.  But, if you need a preview to hold you over for the next 6 months — or if you love crocodiles, Tarzan, and pith helmets — then GRRM has got you covered.

or, Overheard at the Barber Shop:

I finished (finally!) the rough draft of The Coldest War this evening.  I spent the entire day at my desk, eager to hit the finish line.  It was a good Saturday for writing — damp, windy, pissing down rain all afternoon. 

But just as I got to the last page of the manuscript — zeroing in on the final sentence of this book, which I’ve had in mind for two and a half years — the clouds parted, the sun came out, and a rainbow emerged.  Perfectly framed by my office window.

True story.

I’m still recovering from a bout of flu (possibly avian and/or swine), which has delayed a real-soon-now blog post about my recent trip to the Williamson Lectureship in Portales, NM. 

But!

More importantly, today — April 28, 2009 — is an auspicious day for book lovers.  Not one but two wonderful books are available for your enjoyment:   C. C. Finlay’s novel The Patriot Witch, and S. C. Butler’s novel The Magicians’ Daughter, both debut today.

Earlier, in one of my previous posts (rants) about endings and why they sometimes fail and sometimes succeed, I deliberately avoided the Battlestar Galactica series finale, since that has been debated and dissected and analyzed all over the place.

But over at Tor.com right now, Robert Bland just posted a nice argument (rant) about the Battlestar finale. My thoughts on his thoughts follow below the cut.