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Well, I’ve taken the leap and booked tickets, hotel, and convention membership, so it looks like I’m going to World Fantasy Convention in Calgary at the end of October.
I haven’t been to World Fantasy in a few years, so it should be a bit fresher. Plus I’ve never been to Calgary so I’m sort of [...]
This weekend must be festival central for events in Toronto — there’s more going on than I’ve noticed at any other time during the summer, sometimes with odd results. We were out enjoying the weather this afternoon/evening when we passed from the family-oriented mayhem of Buskerfest… through a current of baseball fans lingering after today [...]
Not an endorsement of The Doom of Kings or anything (although that would be nice!) — no, something nice I said about a book has been used in public and attributed to me, so I would call that an endorsement. Ooo, I feel like I’ve hit the big leagues.
Seriously, this is kind of cool and [...]
Oops — actually a few day old now, but fellow Eberron writer Jeff LaSala, author of The Darkwood Mask, has been reading The Doom of Kings and posted an early review on his blog at ashlock.org.
If you read the book and say something (hopefully good!) about it on your blog, let me know so I [...]
Anyone interested in thoughtful, critical reviews of fantasy novels should check out The Beezer Review — the host, BeezerMN, is both thorough and constructive.
You should also go visit his site because he’s just reviewed The Doom of Kings and given it a coveted 5 out of 5 stars! Check out the review here.
Just spotted on SFScope.com — Audible.com has added exclusive audio edition of the Fritz Leiber’s Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser books (with introductions by Neil Gaiman). I squealed when I read it. A very butch manly squeal, of course, but still undeniably a squeal.
I’ve developed a slight addiction to audio books and I already have [...]
“Thagomizer,” the term for the arrangement of spikes on the tails of dinosaurs like stegosaurus, was adopted from a Gary Larson “Far Side” cartoon!
Check it out.