Another ‘interview’, this one is actually a podcast by the mighty Mur Lafferty. She had Lou Anders from Pyr Books and me on a panel at Dragon*Con, and has now posted the chat. Some good stuff in there, we talk about the state of the publishing industry, the state of the genre, big cons versus [...]
I’ve been interviewed by Charles Tan of Bibliophile Stalker. He asks some cool questions, which allowed me to go into quite some detail about my personal background, my role at Tor.com, and Tor.com’s plans for world domination the future. My favourite bit, where I rant a bit about publishing, is below:
In your opinion, how is [...]
I just got back from Reykjavik, Iceland, where I attended EVE Online Fanfest 2009 thanks to the gracious folk at CCP Games, whose game tie-in books Tor Books is publishing. They wanted their editor, Eric Raab, and I to check out their fanbase and their headquarters, so they flew us out for the weekend. What [...]
I’m pleased to report that last night’s Tor.com Rock Band party was a rousing success! We got off to a bit of a slow start, but once the indomitable Jeremy Lassen of Nightshade Books (who is nursing a rather severe sore throat this morning) got on the mic, the party got into full swing. His [...]
I’m in Montréal, a beautiful city (at least what I’ve seen of it) for Worldcon, the 67th World Science Fiction Convention.
I travelled up by train on Wednesday; a 12 hour trip through the beautiful Adirondacks, punctuated by a spectacular vista of Lake Champlain as we approached the Canadian border (where we waited for about an [...]
Megan Messinger has posted a good piece on Tor.com outlining the recent minor shitstorm that George R. R. Martin has started by essentially telling his detractors to back the fuck off, and let him write his books in peace, and at his own damn pace. Since the rampant sense of entitlement so prevalent in today’s [...]
A few weeks ago I was interviewed by Publishers Weekly about Tor.com’s comics content. The piece featuring the interview has now gone live—just in time for Comic Con! If I remember correctly, I think I may have been misquoted at the end where I talk about “…the creative-commons inspired Cory Doctorow-ish kind of ethos,” but [...]
My reaction to the announcement that Universal has bought the rights to Isaac Asimov’s seminal Foundation, and plans to give it to Roland Emmerich to direct into oblivion:
I see nothing but ‘train wreck’ written all over this. Emmerich is a competent filmmaker, churning out big-budget genre spectacles of debatable quality like Independence Day and [...]
We’re having a great time discussing Friday night’s episode of Battlestar Galactica on Tor.com. Come join the fun, but be warned: spoilers abound! If you missed it, SciFi has posted the episode in its entirety right here.
Battlestar Galactica Round Table: “Sometimes a Great Notion”.
One of my goals for this year is to not let The Sleekness lie fallow, and one of the ways I’ll be achieving that is by stealing from myself: I’ll be doing a lot of cross-posting from my blogging (such as it is) on Tor.com. To wit:
New York Comic Con (Feb. 6-8) has published its [...]