Earlier this week, I got tagged over on Facebook with that “list ten books that stuck with you” meme, and I listed ten books with little additional commentary, save to […]
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Perils of the Writer: Real World Politics and SF/F
I don’t usually bring up real-world politics here. But it’s been drumming around the circle for a while now, so I might as well address it. I might be something […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: Integrating the Top Down and the Bottom Up
I’ll fully admit, the worldbuilding work I’ve done for the Banshee space-opera verse has was done in a strange way. Namely, I did a combination of top-down and bottom-up building. […]
Read moreWhere is the next Star Trek?
Something occurred to me recently: we haven’t had a successful show about humanity’s future in outer space on television since 2005, and that with a very broad definition of “successful”. […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: Aliens and Daily Rhythms of Life
So: get up in the morning, shower, dress, breakfast. Commute to work, work throughout the morning, take some time for lunch, back to work until the end of the evening. […]
Read moreJump the Black- 2013 in Review, Part One
On January 1st, 2013, I sold Jump the Black to Rick Klaw’s Texas-themed sci-fi anthology Rayguns Over Texas, which was my first pro-level genre sale.* I haven’t ever really talked […]
Read moreA Rare Moment of Blatant Plugging: Give the Gift of Texas this Christmas
Folks: Christmas is coming, and I’m busy keeping balls in the air this week, so let’s keep this short and sweet. What are you giving your Science Fiction reading friends […]
Read moreWorldbuilding: Aliens and Environments
Now I’m working on Banshee, a space-opera novel that, on a fundamental level, is about putting a human being on a ship with a whole lot of different aliens and […]
Read moreFuture Worldbuilding: Choosing the Future
I’ve now switched gears, in earnest, with my “primary” writing project. I’ve written four books in Maradaine and the world around it (six if you also count the two trunked […]
Read moreWorldbuilding/Perils of the Writer: One-Story Worlds vs. Many-Story Worlds
There are pretty much two ways a sf/fantasy writer can go about writing and worldbuilding: come up with a story, and build a world for it to be in; or […]
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