Good morning. By now most of you probably have seen the Owlcrate edition announcement for the special edition of This Kingdom. For those of you who haven't, here it is, I stole it for you from Instagram. If you are viewing this post through your email, here is a direct link. View this
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25 Minutes
That's how much time I have for the blog post today. I have a fancy and semi-intelligent post in drafts about Fantasy genres and it need more braining than I have at the moment. So this is a rambling salad of randomness instead. On Monday we got a massive attack of Chinese IPs and the site has
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Clean Desk, Clean Shelves…
For some surprising reason, pictures of my cluttered desk and shelf generated a lot of questions and excitement. The desk is now clean. In order of appearance, left to right People asked about the keyboard. It's a custom keyboard that I built for myself. Keyboards are our main tool of
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On Hording Trophies
V. asked yesterday: Mod R, could you perhaps organize an eligibility post of Andrews 2025 works that could be nominated for the upcoming award season (Nebula, Hugos, etc) – like The Inheritance? I have my little list, but I always worry that I’m forgetting something or that I’ve gotten the
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Cats, Books, and Chaos
I don't do well in chaos. My workspace is relatively organized, my clothes are usually folded and put away, and my house is clean. Not holiday clean, but if unexpected visitors showed up, I wouldn't be embarassed. And then comes the last third of the book. I have this little yarn corner
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Happy Holidays
This year we thought we would be by ourselves for Christmas, but plans fell through and now the kids are coming for the Christmas Eve dinner and I'm so happy. We missed Thanksgiving because we were sick, and although we are all meeting for New Year to celebrate my birthday, I'm looking forward to
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Post: the Pet Edition
Mona is home. She is recovering well. Her main issue right now is the hygienic shave that the vet gave her. Mona can't scratch her butt and she is not happy with that. All of us are very happy she is still with us. Many thanks to the Austin Vet ER Noctis, the other furry member of
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The Remarkable Life of Judy-Lynn Del Rey
Do you know why Del Rey imprint is named Del Rey? It's an interesting story. On May 25, 1977 Star Wars was released and altered the cultural landscape forever. It flung the doors and revealed a glittering cosmos, and suddenly science fiction wasn't just a little genre hiding in a corner. Don't
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The Moment Everything Changed: Part 2
Jeaniene Frost I wanted to be a writer since I was eleven. I began with poetry, and moved onto novels around age thirteen, but I could never stick with an idea long enough to finish an entire book. My first inkling that I had talent was my senior year in high school, when a friend asked me to
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The Moment Everything Changed: Part 1
Every writer has a moment when the world shifted. For me, it happened when I was 14 years old. Once the Iron Curtain fell, Russia was flooded with bootleg translations. I had plenty of exposure to hard science fiction, but what I got after Perestroika was fantasy, sword and sorcery, sword and
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Entomologist/Biologist
Thank you, expert found! Dear BDH, I'm looking for an insect expert for some brainstorming regarding research for the book involving imaginary oversized insect monsters. If you are reading this and happen to be an entomologist who doesn't mind answering a few questions, please email me at
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Characters: Stories and Descriptions
You do such a wonderful job describing people so that we can almost visually see them, the little details that just make a person come alive in our imaginations. How do you keep from everyone blending together? Do you search for images? Do you just imagine that person? Do you
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