Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Letter From The Editor - April 2008, Issue 8

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It's like when you (or your wife) are pregnant: suddenly there are pregnant women everywhere. At the mall waddling from storefront to st...
Monday, April 28, 2008

Con? What Con?

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More like con-medy of errors. Here's the most concise version I can deliver: My wife, Terry, called me in Richmond and asked me to come ...
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Friday, April 25, 2008

Locus Award Nominations

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Just a quick note before I run to RavenCon to congratulate Peter S. Beagle for being one of the finalists for the Locus Award for Best Novel...
Thursday, April 24, 2008

Broken Arms and Little Drummer Girls

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I've gotten a couple of emails in the past 24 hours from folks who were more interested in my daughter's broken arm than my con sche...
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008

RavenCon 2008

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I'm getting ready to head up to Richmond VA for RavenCon. Had a great time there last year; it's one of the most well-organized cons...
Monday, April 21, 2008

"Horus Ascending" by Aliette de Bodard

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"Horus Ascending" was the collision of two ideas I had seen over the year of 2006: first, there was massively parallel computi...
Thursday, April 17, 2008

"From the Clay of His Heart" by John Brown

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The story behind From the Clay of His Heart I was on a business trip, and just before checking out of my hotel, I read an interview with D...
Wednesday, April 16, 2008

NASA's new top scientist - 13 year-old German boy

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What are a couple of decimal places among friends...? It's only the fate of humanity and piddly stuff like that. (Actually, I find it pa...
Sunday, April 13, 2008

“The Angel’s Touch” by Dennis Danvers

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How I Came to Write “The Angel’s Touch” Sarah and I were traveling. We turn into TV sluts when we have a hotel room and a remote cont...
Thursday, April 10, 2008

IGMS - Issue 8

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Wow, I thought the cover illustration for James Maxey's story in issue 7 was cool (and it still is), but the illustration for John Brown...
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Dreaming Creek

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I just got the the final files from the designer who did the cover for my upcoming novel, Dreaming Creek . I haven't been this excited i...
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Monday, March 10, 2008

Roads To Writing With Orson Scott Card

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Last week I was lucky enough to be invited to do a presentation along with Orson Scott Card (who organized this day-long workshop), Jake Bla...
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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Agent Insight

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I was recently invited to give a presentation at the the Greensboro campus of the University of North Carolina about publishing science fict...
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Monday, February 18, 2008

More Free Stories

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On February 1st we made two of IGMS 's early stories available for free. Now two more stories, "Xoco's Fire" by Oliver Dal...
Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Lost Soul – by Marie Brennan

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Sometimes you write the wrong story first. A while back, I was working on a story set in Tir Diamh called "Returning to the Nest....
Friday, February 01, 2008

Free IGMS Stories

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Below is a letter that just went out to our e-mailing list. Apologies if it's something you've already seen. We're making some o...
Saturday, January 26, 2008

The Smell of the Earth - by Joan Savage

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I started writing “The Smell of the Earth” one day when I needed a break from the novel I was working on. I had been exploring, in the novel...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

The Unrhymed Couplets of the Universe - by Sharon Shinn

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"The Unrhymed Couplets of the Universe" was one of those stories that just comes together for you when the disparate elements of ...
Tuesday, January 15, 2008

"After This Life" by Janna Silverstein

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The first germ of this story was planted when I saw a news piece about a prison inmate named Tommy Silverstein. He’s no relation of mine (th...
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Monday, January 07, 2008

The Braiding - by Pat Esden

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I believe that in every profession there are moments when a person stops using logic, truly focuses on their work and acts automatically in ...
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