I’m still alive. . .
The blog’s been falling by the wayside a little while I work on the climax of the Apotheosis Trilogy. It’s a little hard to shift gears for me after spending thousands of words destroying the universe...
View ArticleTomorrow is the Moment of Truth
Friday (obscenely early) I fly off to the west cost to Norwescon to find out if Prophets won the Phillip K. Dick Award. The announcement will happen during the awards ceremony at 7pm Pacific. You can...
View ArticleAudioness. . .
Just to let fans of audio books know that I have recently signed contracts to have the Apotheosis Trilogy be released on Audible.com. I spent Thursday evening talking to the voice-over artist going...
View ArticleWriting toward the abyss. . .
I’m literally in the home stretch of Messiah now, a few thousand words from capping off ten books and seventeen years worth of work. This is where I’m getting all sweaty and nervous. Especially...
View ArticleGoing out with a bang
It is done! The last volume of the Apotheosis Trilogy, Messiah, has just wrapped up at 103K words. (About 3000 words over my mark, which means the final revised draft is going to be even longer.) We...
View ArticleTying the whole thing together
I’ve been light blogging the past few weeks because, even though I’m done with Messiah, I’m not done with Messiah. Even though the draft is finished (so no one needs to worry about me pulling a Robert...
View ArticleBook Stuff and Blog Stuff
For audiobook fans, I have good news. Blackstone Audio has just contracted to do an audiobook version of Wolf’s Cross. I’ve also added buy links for the Audible.com versions of Prophets and Heretics....
View ArticleI owe someone at SF Signal a beer.
Here’s the podcast. They review their best-of-2010 lists and I actually got props from two of their panelists for Heretics. I’m starting to get nervous, what if John doesn’t like the final book?...
View ArticleMe on the SF Signal Podcast
Patrick Hester and John DeNardo grill me on the 25th episode of the SF Signal podcast. You should check it out.
View ArticleThe new phonebook’s here! The new phonebook’s here!
Actually, this, the final book in the Apotheosis Trilogy is here: Not this:
View ArticleAll Messiah all the time. . .
UPDATE: Seems to be an issue with the audio book, Audible seems to have not put the second half of it on-line yet. I’ll let you know when that’s fixed. UPDATE #2: As of Feb 4, the book is still down...
View ArticleSwann about the web
First off, Audible has Messiah back up with the complete audio, yay! Second, I have a guest blog post up at Buried Under Books, wherin I try to tell the truth about lying. I’ve also added to the review...
View ArticleI invade SF Signal with my sapient army of nanobots…
Or, maybe, a long article on world-building relating back to the Apotheosis Trilogy. This comes right on the heels of a rather nice review they did on Messiah: A well-balanced blend of space opera...
View ArticleWriter’s Conferences and Apotheosis Reviews
I will be presenting this weekend at The 20th Annual Western Reserve Spring Writers’ Conference: Saturday, March 26, 2011 8:30 a.m. – 1: 30 p.m. My session will be 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. PLOTTING SCI-FI...
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