Showing posts with label The Servant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Servant. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
The Servant (and Co.)
If
you've worked in the book biz (or the movie or music biz, for that
matter) you feel cautious about announcing deals to the public.
Those deals sometimes evaporate like fairy gold in the light of day. But I've signed and
returned the contracts, and my editor has made an announcement about
the deal to professional trade publications, so I think I can go out
on a limb and announce that I've sold two books to Tor, both based on
the novelette that was published in Clarkesworld, “The Servant.”
The first book (titled Medusa Uploaded) is complete, and is in the editing stage now – the
second one is in progress. Tentatively, the first should appear in
Spring 2018 (watch this space, because that could change). As soon
as I get a file of the cover art, I'll post it here.
I'm
very grateful to Neil Clark for publishing that original story.
Without, it would have been a lot harder to sell two novels. So it
really is worthwhile to write short stories and send them out (try
ralan.com for SF/F/Horror market reports).
Ernest Hogan Illustrated this post. He drew a picture of a nightmare I had about being chased by a spider monkey. I'm thinking maybe that spider represents new responsibilities . . .
Thursday, October 29, 2015
More Crappy Self-Promotion (and a Change of Font)
Way
back in August, when I certainly should have been on top of the
situation, my writing again appeared in CLARKESWORLD magazine – and
I failed to tell anyone about it. Despite that, my story
(technically a novelette) “The Servant” has managed to get some
recommendations for the Hugo award. Since “The Servant” started
out as an idea for a novel, I've placed it on the front burner and am
now ambitiously expanding and developing it into what will eventually
be a 125,000-word book. Shazzam. (Shazzam
is not the title of the book; it's just a mild, happy expletive with
old comic book roots.)
In
the same issue of CLARKESWORLD, I also have a nonfiction piece,
“Hipsters of Zombieland.” You lovers of all things zombie,
please visit and counter the one comment on the page that was penned
by a zombie-hater. Unless you hate my article. In which case, never
mind . . .
And
yes, this is a new font: Chalkboard. Apparently quite a few people
hate Comic Sans. (Just about everyone but me, it seems.) Granted,
you may have a tough time telling the difference between the old font
and the new one, but to me it seems less wiggly. In fact, this is
the way I wish I could write with the raw paw (mechanically). Of
course, that's how I felt about Comic Sans, too. So my judgement is
still questionable.
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