As most site readers are aware, the novel I’m in the midst of writing — the first one I think I’ll try to sell — is largely set during those stormy years in which the Roman Republic dissolved and the Roman Empire was established in its place. As the one-line …
Last night, in the Riverview Room here at The Citadel, James Oliver Rigney, Jr. (known to readers by many names, including Robert Jordan) was posthumously inducted into the South Carolina Academy of Authors. As I told many of the other attendees of the induction ceremony, I would have been happy …
FANTASY AND THE LITERARY LEGACY OF ROBERT JORDAN A speech written for the occasion of the induction of James Oliver Rigney, Jr. into the South Carolina Academy of Authors on 8 March 2008. (A write-up of the event can be found here .) Listen: [audio:jordan.mp3] Hwæt. We Gardena in geardagum, …
There is rain sheeting against my window. There are three — no, four piles of work on my desk in need of grading. Yet I’m happy. Why? Well, Dave Truesdale has published his “2007 SF & Fantasy Recommended Reading List” via Black Gate Magazine. I generally ignore these lists, but …
Any writers out there with an interest in science — hard, real, fascinating science — would do well to apply to the Launch Pad Astronomy Workshop. I went last year and found it astoundingly beneficial. Application information (and other details) can be found here: http://www.launchpadworkshop.org/ A “brief history” of the …