An Article, a Story, and a Contest

The new issue of Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show is up, and I am this month’s guest columnist.  My article is called, “Speculating on Fiction’s Name,” and it’s about how we think of and classify fantasy, science fiction, and other sub genres of speculative fiction.  I hope you’llvisit the site and enjoy the article.

While I’m promoting such things, I thought I’d also mention that the story I published in IGMS last year, “Cassie’s Story,” is now up on my website, and I’m also running a new book contest.  I’ll hope you’ll check out my site, poke around a little, and try to win a book.

Thanks!

Website Update

Did some work on my web site yesterday — added a permanent link to Magical Words, the group blog on the craft and business of writing that I maintain with fellow fantasy authors Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, and C.E. Murphy.  I also put in a new page.  Last year  I had a short story published in Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show.  The story is called “Cassie’s Story” and now that IGMS’s 1 year exclusive on the story has expired, I’ve added it to my website.  So if you haven’t read “Cassie’s Story” yet, or if you have read it but want to read it again, go to my website – www.DavidBCoe.com – and read the story.  While you’re there, be sure to check out the contest that’s going on right now.  You might win a book!  And if you care to read some sample chapters from my books, you can do that, too.  Enjoy!

Just Checking In…

Busy week — hence no posts.  Sorry for that.  I’ve been working on two books, a short story, an article for a ‘zine, and now I’m about to begin going through the copyedited manuscript of a third book.  This is what it means to be a full-time writer.  No complaints.  One of the books I hope to sell quite soon, the other I still have to work on before it’s ready to sell, the third will be released in February 2010.  The short story is for an anthology I was invited into, and the article was also invitation-based.  So most or all of this will eventually be published.  Makes the frantic pace much easier to take.  These are tough times for all writers and just having work is a good thing.  As I say, no complaints.

All right, back to work.

A Post About Writing Short Fiction

Today’s post, “Short Fiction Revisited,” can be found at the Magical Words blog site.  Magical Words is the fantasy blog I maintain with fellow writers Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, and C.E. Murphy.  Please stop by the site and enjoy this latest post.

Guest Blogger Bart Leib at Magical Words

Today at http://magicalwords.net, the group blog I share with fellow fantasy writers Faith Hunter, Misty Massey, and C.E. Murphy, we have a special guest.  Bart Leib, co-owner and editor of Crossed Genres SF/F Magazine.  Crossed Genres is a monthly e-zine that has themed issues. Every month, that theme is combined with sf or fantasy in a group of stories.  Each issue also “contains articles and interviews about SF/F, writing, and the publishing industry, with the goal of informing aspiring writers.”

In today’s post, Bart talks about putting the issues together as well as his goals (and those of his wife and co-editor, K.T. Holt) for the zine. Please visit the site and enjoy Bart’s post.

The Sorcerers’ Plague is Out in Paperback!

Another day, another release.  As of today the paperback edition of The Sorcerers’ Plague, book I of Blood of the Southlands, is available from all booksellers.  The Sorcerers’ Plague is a sort of medical thriller set in a medieval fantasy world.  For those who have been interested in reading the Southlands books, but didn’t want to buy a hardcover book, this is a great time to start the series.  Book II, The Horsemen’s Gambit came out in hardcover a couple of weeks ago, and the third and final book in the series, The Dark-Eyes’ War, is finished and in production.

If you’re interested in learning more about the series, please visit my website, http://www.davidbcoe.com.  There you can read sample chapters from any of my books, read a recent interview in which I talk about the Southlands series, check out other neat stuff like short stories I’ve written and background work I’ve done for my various projects, and even enter contests to win free books.  And if you’re ready to buy The Sorcerers’ Plague, just click here!

Of course, I’m not the only writer with a new book out today.  My good friend Misty Massey (one of my co-bloggers over at http://magicalwords.net) has the paperback edition of her first novel, Mad Kestrel, coming out today, too.  Check out her blog entry about the new release by going here:  http://madkestrel.livejournal.com/118814.html

Thanks!

A Post About Manuscript Submissions

Today’s post, “The Presentation  of Your Submission,” can be found at http://magicalwords.net.  It begins a week of themed posts at “MagicalWords” that will deal with issues surrounding manuscript submissions, all of them geared toward aspiring writers.  I hope you’ll visit the site and find the posts helpful.

Interview with Edmund Schubert

I’ve mentioned Edmund Schubert in this space many times before.  Ed is the editor of Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show.  He also edits a couple of magaizines outside our genre.  He’s written many short stories, and as of this month he is a published novelist.  He’s a dad, a Mets fan, and the owner of several very loud shirts that he insists on wearing to conventions.  In addition to all of this, he’s incredibly bright, outrageously funny, and as nice a person as you could every hope to meet.  He and I give each other a hard time whenever we’re together, but the fact is he’s one of my favorite people in the world.  With his first novel, Dreaming Creek, now in print and available from your favorite book dealers, I thought this was a good time to post an interview.  (I’m pretty clever that way.)  Enjoy

 

A Post About “Cassie’s Story”

As promised, a longer post about “Cassie’s Story” is now up at the blogsite of Edmund Schubert, editor of Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show.   ”Cassie’s Story” is my newest short story, and it can now be read at the IGMS website.  Today’s post tells a bit about how I came to write the story and what was involved in the editorial process.  I hope you enjoy the post, and I hope you’ll check out the story.

A Post About a Writer’s Insecurities

Today’s post, “The Fear Never Goes Away, So Face It,: can be found at http://magicalwords.net.  Visit the site and check it out!