Mayan December is different than my other work. Â That doesn’t mean readers of The Silver Ship and the Sea might not like it, some clearly do. Â But – very different than my other work — every unsolicited email or review or comment has been from a women. Â A lot of my science fictions readers are …
Goodreads does a book giveaway program. Â This is basically a chance for authors or publicists or publishers to give away copies of the book. Â I just finished a run through of the program where I gave away 10 copies of Mayan December. I like the process of autographing copies and sticking them in envelopes and …
I am a bit nervous about the book launch party at Worldcon tomorrow. Â It’s the first time I’ve done a book party of any kind (much less at Worldcon). Â Louise Marley and I are co-hosting a book launch – for her excellent Brahm’s Deception (Kensington) and for Mayan December (Prime). Â Since it’s a year for …
This nonfiction book is by the author of one of the books I read when I was researching Mayan December – Skywatchers.  Better yet, the author is very much like one of my main characters, Alice. Like Alice, Anthony Aveni in an archaeoastronomer, or someone who studies the intersection of culture and astronomy.  Also like …
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I have a great schedule for NORWESCON, coming up in Seatac next weekend. I do want to draw attention to the reading for Mayan December (coming in August from Prime Books) – it’s early in the con, and so I will have some limits on my time to advertise it. I’m very excited about the …
I’m very pleased to announce that pre-orders are open on Amazon for the print copy of Mayan December (Pub date August 23rd, 2011). And for those of you wondering, yes there will be a Kindle version! Thanks to Prime Books!
There are certain events – and places – that inspire creativity in many people. Ancient Rome. Egypt. World War II. One of those is also surely December 2012 and the end of the Mayan Calendar. The place – of course – is the Yucatan Peninsula. Now that I’m finished with my own novel set there …
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This is from Glen Hiemstra of Futurist.com: Mayan December is an exciting tale of the ancient Mayans and the end of the Mayan calendar in the near future, as seen through the eyes of a time-traveling youngster named Nixie. What begins as an interesting trip to Chichen Itza for the December 2012 equinox becomes a …
Louise Marley is a good friend and we sometimes share bits of writing with each other. So I saw Mozart’s Blood born a few years ago. I hadn’t read it all the way through, or even seen the last half at all. My theme for recovery has been “read the things you want to read” …
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I did a lot of research for my novel Mayan December (coming out from Prime Books in August). This isn’t usual for me. For most of my science fiction stories, I research all the time. I go on jags where I read science articles from National Geographic to Wired to The Technology Review to various …
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