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ISBW returns with an agent interview this time, and my plea to stop kicking your own ass. And by you I mean me.
Jen’s podcast, Shipping and Handling.
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I’m absolutely thrilled to announce that I’ve sold my sci-fi thriller SIX WAKES to Orbit Books for release next fall! Read the official announcement here!
Elevator pitch: This is a clone murder mystery in space. Six clones are crewing a generational spaceship with their fellow clones’ consciousnesses sleeping in servers. Backup bodies are designed to wake when the current body dies. The books starts when our six characters wake up in their new bodies all at once in the middle of the carnage of their own murdered ex-selves, and none of them has any idea which of them is the killer.
I’m excited to be treading new ground with space thrillers, but I promise that the usual dark humor that comes with my books will not be missing. This book has been in the works for a while, and I can’t wait for you to read it!
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In I Should Be Writing i’m constantly saying that it’s OK to suck. And that’s solid advice.
For new writers.
Then I talk to award winning author and translator Ken Liu.
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I’m heading to Phoenix Comicon tomorrow (would be there today but I have a family obligation here at home) and will be on panels tomorrow and Saturday. Here’s my schedule!
- Serial Box Publishing Presents Bookburners : Friday 4:30pm – 5:30pm
- Author Signing: Brian McClellan, Sam Sykes, Mur Lafferty, Max Gladstone, Margaret Dunlap : Friday 6:00pm – 7:00pm
- Technology for Authors : Friday 7:30pm – 8:30pm
- Super Supernatural : Saturday 12:00pm – 1:00pm
- Signing: Leanna Renee Hieber, Kevin Hearne, Jonathan Maberry, Mur Lafferty, Ann Leckie, Amy Nichols : Saturday 1:30pm – 2:30pm
I’ve been depressed lately, and it’s been the evil stealth depression that I couldn’t see until I started to come out with it. Needless to say, my creative output, both writing and podcasting, has been low. I’ve hit my Bookburners deadlines but not much else. I’m doing much better and will be recording a lot today.
There will be things to announce in the coming days. Watch this space.
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It’s Matt, Mur, Gail Carriger, and some rum as we talk about the business of writing from a bonafide New York Times bestselling author. She gets sent on book tours and shit. She’s also the godmother of Ditch Diggers, and we tell you why.
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Matt and I discuss writing to the market, writing for money instead of art, and answer your questions. It’s a short one, because the next one is a super-long episode with Gail Carriger! And it drops very very soon!
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Despite what the gurus tell you, crowdfunding and self publishing are not the golden ticket to magical unicorn success. Some people shouldn’t go this route. We discuss those people in this episode.
Also, Matt has robot-saving delusions of grandeur. And I challenge him to write me a story.
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A short and sweet feedback show about royalties, copyright, and social media celebration! Also don’t miss my appearances list!
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I think I will put on my tombstone: Mur Lafferty: STRETCH GOAL. I love helping out friends on Kickstarter projects, and currently I’m a stretch goal on two!
One is the JR Blackwell photography project, In Their Own Worlds. I’ve mentioned this one before, but I want to mention again cause dammit, I’m a high stretch goal and I really want to do this project! I love JR and her work! It’s funded, but not to the Shambling Guide level yet! [NOTE- As of April 26, halfway there!]
[NOTE- Stretch Goal Made!] The second is from my good friend Dave Thompson, former co-editor of Podcastle, who is putting together a short story collection called And Welcome Back, Stories. It’s close, but not quite close enough to the $2000 stretch goal of the guest author chapbook (including Matt Fn Wallace and Ann Fn Leckie, winner of ALL the 2014 awards.)