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Author Archives: David
Flipping the Switch
[H]ow you come to terms with the Goddess is no concern of mine; I do not even know that you are serious in your poetic profession. Robert Graves, The White Goddess Today is day one of me as a full-time … Continue reading
For Those Who Don’t Subscribe to Publisher’s Weekly
It turns out that if you get a starred review, PW offers you a nice price on an ad touting the fact. And here is the ad Baen is taking out in the 2/27 issue of PW. I risk being … Continue reading
Posted in News
Tagged Baen, Deborah Warren, East/West Literary, Knopf, Publisher's Weekly, The Kidnap Plot, Witchy Eye, Wordfire Press, WorldCon
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Chibis for you! @LTUESymposium #witchyeye
I won’t make Life, the Universe, and Everything (LTUE) this year. I’ll be across the country, at Pensacon in Florida, selling WITCHY EYE for the first time, alongside THE KIDNAP PLOT and my WordFire Press books. But I don’t want … Continue reading
Posted in Art
Tagged Baen, David Young Art and Design, Life the Universe and Everything, Pensacon, Space Balrogs, Witchy Eye, Wordfire Press
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Witchy Eye Spring Tour
WITCHY EYE is available everywhere on March 7. In select places and times, it’ll be available even sooner! Here are my upcoming appearances selling and talking about WITCHY EYE: February 2-4 * SUPERSTARS OF WRITING * Colorado Springs February 17-19 … Continue reading
Too Many Letters
“Think of it this way. For you, this animal is a horse.” Jake leaned forward to pat his mount’s shoulder. “When you say it, it’s like that, horse. When you write it, you write H-O-R-S-E.” “You mean horsey, Jake. Horse … Continue reading
Good Advice (a few lines from my WIP)
“A sedan.” Hop nodded again. “She does not touch the ground. And she has others with her, and they look harmless.” “Call no man harmless until he is dead,” Bill said. “My education ended early, but I believe I remember … Continue reading
Posted in Quotation
Tagged Aristotle, Attila the Hun, Baen, Witchy Eye, Witchy Winter
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Tribes
I am reading (and enjoying the hell out of) Deirdre McCloskey’s Bourgeois Virtues. That book and its arguments are much bigger than this tiny blog post, but a minor point in the book (the alleged fragmentation of modern, that is … Continue reading
A New World Obsession
I’m neck-deep in the WITCHY EYE setting and stories, and wanted to share this quote from the book (it’s in the POV of Obadiah Dogsbody, rough English factotum to a Yankee wizard-priest): The Tarock was a New World obsession, something … Continue reading
Bookshelf: The State of the Disunion
Michael R. Collings is a gifted critic, academic, editor, novelist, and poet. In 2016, he’s really doubled down on poetry, producing multiple volumes of sonets (his word) on various subjects. His most recent collection bears a title suggesting the poems are … Continue reading
Why Writing Is Awesome
Writing is hard. You work alone in a closet, you struggle with doubt and fear, and then when you produce a book, no matter how good it is, someone feels obligated and entitled to beat you up for it. And … Continue reading
