German rights to The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart have been sold to the publisher Luebbe! Juhu! Luebbe puts out some great stuff and I'm honored that they've taken a chance on my boys. Looks like spätzle and spaten Franziskaner dunkel as soon as I can lay hands on it to celebrate. Einen schönen Tag allerseits!
December 4th, 2009
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alankria 's friend Jun got the funds she needed to solve her personal crisis. Bonus--I'm getting a copy of Samantha Henderson's novel Heaven's Bones for helping out! Very excited about steampunky horror goodness.
Also, my new Omnivoracious article is now up, but I choked when I hit the title line and so it is called "Film and Fiction as Partner's in an Author's Literary Development."Which is what it's about, but ouch. Check it out and tell me what films, original or adaptations, good or bad, impacted you as a writer or just as a reader.
alankria 's friend Jun got the funds she needed to solve her personal crisis. Bonus--I'm getting a copy of Samantha Henderson's novel Heaven's Bones for helping out! Very excited about steampunky horror goodness.Also, my new Omnivoracious article is now up, but I choked when I hit the title line and so it is called "Film and Fiction as Partner's in an Author's Literary Development."Which is what it's about, but ouch. Check it out and tell me what films, original or adaptations, good or bad, impacted you as a writer or just as a reader.
December 3rd, 2009
My ace boom boom Molly is assistant editor over at Fantasy Magazine and she's looking for a couple of "flexible, self-motivated people who read quickly and write quickly" to interview their authors. Molly gives good interview herself (moi, Garth Nix) so she'll be looking for people who can come up with better questions than "where do you get your ideas." Details for the position are to be had here.
I've got a not-at-all tardy response to Kim Stanley Robinson's New Scientist Article up on Amazon's Omnivoracious blog titled, oh-so-clever of me, "Any Genre, Potentially: The Stories of Now." Check it, then tell me I'm sagacious/foolish/Captain Obvious.
My friend Alex/alankria has a friend named Jun in dire need of financial assistance, details of which are here. I'm in that magical time of an author's life when the last check has been thoroughly spent and the next has not yet arrived, and so cannot pony up as I would like to. I've also used most of my author copies of The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart for kindling in the scenic but deadly Autumn snowstorms we've been having in Colorado but do have a few which have thus far been spared the flame, and these three I'll give away to people who help out Jun.
Brass tacks: donate $15 or more using the paypal button in the link, forward me the paypal receipt, and I'll spring for shipping to send it to you if you live in the US, international Samaritans will, regrettably, have to pay actual shipping costs as I have moths in my wallet. I'll also inscribe the book in whatever fashion you like, and since that's what you would pay for the book new it seems like I'm giving you a really good deal for when I'm famous and autographed first editions go for a billyun smackaroons on Super Ebay or whatever we're using in the future. So help out your fellow humans and I'll send my horrible boys to your house to rub your nose in how bad other people are...but not you, because you gave.
Forward paypal receipts to jesse(dot)bullington(at) gmail(dot)com. It's first come, first serve, but you can, if you're that sort of person, email me before donating to see if I have any copies left and reserve one. Plenty of other loots are to be had, though, so check outalankria 's blog for more goodies.
EDIT: One already swooped up, so 2 remain, and double-checking the details it looks like donations need to be had by tomorrow, so if you're gonna...
FINAL EDIT: And she's done! Thanks to everyone who helped out!
alankria has a friend named Jun in dire need of financial assistance, details of which are here. I'm in that magical time of an author's life when the last check has been thoroughly spent and the next has not yet arrived, and so cannot pony up as I would like to. I've also used most of my author copies of The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart for kindling in the scenic but deadly Autumn snowstorms we've been having in Colorado but do have a few which have thus far been spared the flame, and these three I'll give away to people who help out Jun. Brass tacks: donate $15 or more using the paypal button in the link, forward me the paypal receipt, and I'll spring for shipping to send it to you if you live in the US, international Samaritans will, regrettably, have to pay actual shipping costs as I have moths in my wallet. I'll also inscribe the book in whatever fashion you like, and since that's what you would pay for the book new it seems like I'm giving you a really good deal for when I'm famous and autographed first editions go for a billyun smackaroons on Super Ebay or whatever we're using in the future. So help out your fellow humans and I'll send my horrible boys to your house to rub your nose in how bad other people are...but not you, because you gave.
Forward paypal receipts to jesse(dot)bullington(at) gmail(dot)com. It's first come, first serve, but you can, if you're that sort of person, email me before donating to see if I have any copies left and reserve one. Plenty of other loots are to be had, though, so check out
alankria 's blog for more goodies.EDIT: One already swooped up, so 2 remain, and double-checking the details it looks like donations need to be had by tomorrow, so if you're gonna...
FINAL EDIT: And she's done! Thanks to everyone who helped out!
December 1st, 2009
Over at Amazon's Omnivoracious Blog I've got my second entry up, an essay on historical accuracy, realism, and the inclusion of nasty bits in my work. Check it: "The Sweet Filth of History."
Oh, and yesterday I rapped my deadline on the nose with a rolled up copy of my new novel The Enterprise of Death. Details as I hear them, but for now it's blinking blindness as my eyes adjust to my long absent friend daylight. Time to start getting caught up...
Oh, and yesterday I rapped my deadline on the nose with a rolled up copy of my new novel The Enterprise of Death. Details as I hear them, but for now it's blinking blindness as my eyes adjust to my long absent friend daylight. Time to start getting caught up...
November 30th, 2009
Super Big Excitement: I'm guest blogging at Amazon's Omnivoracious Blog all week! This is up there with the Powell's spot in my opinion, and I had a lot of fun putting these essays together. Today's is called "History, Fantasy, and the Blurry Lines of Literature," check it if you're so inclined.
Over at Suite 101 Lynne Jamneck did a round robin sort of Short Burst Interview, wherein I was asked the same three questions as Nick Mamatas and others, though at present I couldn't track down where saids others were hiding.
The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart was selected as one of Barnes & Noble's Fantasy and Science Fiction Book Club's three novels for December, and I'll be visiting their boards from December 14th through the 18th if you want to pop in and see what they think.
Also had some good press in the form of warm reviews by Mike Yon at SFFWorld , John Lloyd at The Bookbag, and Ben at Speculative Fiction Junkie,as well as the much-appreciated nod of Most Original Debut of 2009 from the Mad Hatter. Thank you all very much for taking the time to read, and the time to post your thoughts! Oh, and if anyone out there's reviewed the book and I somehow missed it let me know and I'll link to it around here, and I'm always fishing for customer reviews on Amazon if you've read the thing and find yourself with a free minute or two.
Over at Suite 101 Lynne Jamneck did a round robin sort of Short Burst Interview, wherein I was asked the same three questions as Nick Mamatas and others, though at present I couldn't track down where saids others were hiding.
The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart was selected as one of Barnes & Noble's Fantasy and Science Fiction Book Club's three novels for December, and I'll be visiting their boards from December 14th through the 18th if you want to pop in and see what they think.
Also had some good press in the form of warm reviews by Mike Yon at SFFWorld , John Lloyd at The Bookbag, and Ben at Speculative Fiction Junkie,as well as the much-appreciated nod of Most Original Debut of 2009 from the Mad Hatter. Thank you all very much for taking the time to read, and the time to post your thoughts! Oh, and if anyone out there's reviewed the book and I somehow missed it let me know and I'll link to it around here, and I'm always fishing for customer reviews on Amazon if you've read the thing and find yourself with a free minute or two.
Not only does asakiyume have a story titled "May Spirit" up at Three Crows Press but orrin Grey's story "The Power of the Dead" is now live at A Thousand Faces. I won't be able to read Orrin's until this evening but have every confidence it's a worthy tale, and really enjoyed Francesca's when i stumbled over it this morning. Congrats to you both, and thanks for the reads!
asakiyume have a story titled "May Spirit" up at Three Crows Press but orrin Grey's story "The Power of the Dead" is now live at A Thousand Faces. I won't be able to read Orrin's until this evening but have every confidence it's a worthy tale, and really enjoyed Francesca's when i stumbled over it this morning. Congrats to you both, and thanks for the reads!
November 29th, 2009
It must be frickin Christmas, cuz I just opened up my inbox and saw that jtglover has a new story called "Waiting, Just Underneath" up at Dark Recesses. Great stuff, check it out.
jtglover has a new story called "Waiting, Just Underneath" up at Dark Recesses. Great stuff, check it out.
November 28th, 2009
About to hit the road to visit relatives in FoCo for a Thanksgiving leftovers party, but the end is in sight--by Wednesday of next week my brain should start regenerating. For now: the sweet, sweet kiss of stress-and-sinus-infection-induced madness, supplemented by a stuffing and cranberry sauce sammich if there's any justice in this mecky world. I'll be guest blogging over at Amazon's Omnivoracious Blog all next week, and should be around here a bit as well.
Oh, and relevant to nothing, Molly and I were talking this morning about how awesome it would be if Satoshi Kon adapted Ovid's Metamorphoses into an anime. Her idea--his ability to tell linear stories in a non-linear fashion yet still maintain cohesion and comprehensibility, combined with his visual aesthetic, would make for a gorgeous telling of the gods and goddesses of old. She also bought me the soundtrack to his Paprika, because she is a pretty damn wonderful friend. Who is Satoshi Kon? Go watch these...or better yet, just rent them blind and thank me later:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NclRSeV4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpGrD5wU
Oh, and relevant to nothing, Molly and I were talking this morning about how awesome it would be if Satoshi Kon adapted Ovid's Metamorphoses into an anime. Her idea--his ability to tell linear stories in a non-linear fashion yet still maintain cohesion and comprehensibility, combined with his visual aesthetic, would make for a gorgeous telling of the gods and goddesses of old. She also bought me the soundtrack to his Paprika, because she is a pretty damn wonderful friend. Who is Satoshi Kon? Go watch these...or better yet, just rent them blind and thank me later:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NclRSeV4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpGrD5wU