Writers have the best job in the world. We make stuff up. We daydream and what we daydream becomes real – as a book or a story or a poem. People read our daydreams, our musings, the things that grow out of our subconscious. I really did it this time. It all started with the …
People ask me regularly if I have books available on the Kindle. It’s possible that happens more to me than to other authors, since I live and work in Amazon’s home town and my friends are tech geeks.  I’m pretty sure that my novels will find their way there eventually through my publisher, Tor Books, …
I didn’t set out for these books to be about war, at least not when I wrote The Silver Ship and the Sea. Current events, however, have a way of coloring artistic work, even science fiction that’s being written about a far future. The Iraq War and The Silver Ship and the Sea started at …
I usually don’t post reviews here, good or bad, but this review at Zeno’s Library tickled me because I truly do think science fiction is partly about making people think. At least that’s part of why I both read and write sf…
Now that I’m back from the Rainforest Writers retreat, I have two more “shows” in the next two days: Tomorrow I’ll be doing a video with Glen Hiemstra and a few other folks, which will how up on my website soon. Think of it as futurist speaking marketing, I guess. People keep saying they don’t …
This weekend at Orycon, I was given the Endeavor Award for The Silver Ship and the Sea. I’ve been thinking about how to blog about it in a more meaningful way than just posting the press release or talking about how excited I am that the book was chosen when all of the other writers …
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This is the eighth installment in a set of blog posts about my current science fiction series, and after this one, I’ll take a break from these more serious posts for a bit as I go finish polishing the draft of book three and write the outline for book four.  The first book, THE SILVER …
This is the sixth installment in a set of blog posts about my current science fiction series. The first book, THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA, is now available in paperback. The sequel, READING THE WIND, came out on July 22ndin hardback. Each post explores one way the books address problems that also affect us …
And I’m in great company, too! Not to mention really pleased and slightly awed. FINALISTS FOR 2008 The Book of Joby by Mark J. Ferrari Bright of the Sky: Book One of the Entire and the Rose by Kay Kenyon Not Flesh Nor Feathers by Cherie Priest Powers by Ursula K. LeGuin The Silver Ship …
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This is the fifth installment in a set of blog posts about my current science fiction series. The first book, THE SILVER SHIP AND THE SEA, is now available in paperback. The sequel, READING THE WIND, came out on July 22ndin hardback. Each post explores one way the books address a problem we are also …
